Making a wifi adapter RTL8192eu work on Ubuntu

Question

I bought a wifi adapter for my raspberry pi, but I have problems making work on raspberry pi.

I tested it on a PC running Ubuntu. It has exactly the same behavior, as follows:

When inserted, lsusb shows it.

$ lsusb                                                                                                                                                                     
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:818b Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04d9:1603 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

The first one -- Realtek Semiconductor Corp. -- is the wifi adapter.

ifconfig doesn't list it.

$ ifconfig                                                                                                                                                                  
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:66:83:c7:d4                                                                                                                                          
          inet addr:192.168.2.103  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0                                                                                                                       
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:66ff:fe83:c7d4/64 Scope:Link                                                                                                                                     
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1                                                                                                                                     
          RX packets:18399 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0                                                                                                                                 
          TX packets:15381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0                                                                                                                               
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000                                                                                                                                                           
          RX bytes:16238073 (16.2 MB)  TX bytes:2788219 (2.7 MB)                                                                                                                                 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback                                                                                                                                                              
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0                                                                                                                                                    
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host                                                                                                                                                         
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1                                                                                                                                               
          RX packets:416 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0                                                                                                                                   
          TX packets:416 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0                                                                                                                                 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0                                                                                                                                                              
          RX bytes:52273 (52.2 KB)  TX bytes:52273 (52.2 KB)

I expected to see a wlan0, but it doesn't appear. I tried lot of ways to make it work, but still without success.

Would like to hear how can I solve the problem. The goal should be to connect to a router with username and password and get internet.

Where should I start? Maybe the drivers is the problem?

The first error says recipe for target '/.../install_folder/driver/rtl8192EU_linux_v4.2.2_7585.2‌0130524/os_dep/linux/usb_intf.o' failed — Ionică Bizău, Aug 11 '15 at 17:17
I can't help at the moment. I build lots of realtek drivers to debs, but did not look into this one yet. — Pilot6, Aug 11 '15 at 17:18
@Pilot6 Would give you a bounty of 100 rep points if you do it. :D — Ionică Bizău, Aug 11 '15 at 17:19
I added another solution, You can give a bounty there, if it works. And I will build a dkms package to be able to upgrade kernels. — Pilot6, Aug 11 '15 at 17:20
@Pilot6 Umm... I'm getting Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel when I dpkg -i that.deb... — Ionică Bizău, Aug 11 '15 at 17:25
@Pilot6 It didn't really fail. Now wlan0 appears in ifconfig output but it doesn't have an address. Here is the ifconfig output. — Ionică Bizău, Aug 11 '15 at 18:09
you could try this http://askubuntu.com/a/863433/633710 (Works fine until kernel 4.8) — Gi_44, Dec 22 '16 at 10:11
Used this driver in Mint 19.3 , works but at a snails pace . https://launchpad.net/~hanipouspilot/+archive/ubuntu/rtlwifi/+build/10629089 — Brendan J Walker, Aug 28 '19 at 20:36

Making a wifi adapter RTL8192eu work on Ubuntu

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