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I recently purchased DWA 131 adapter. Its not working on ubuntu. I upgraded to 15.10 hoping that it would work ... but no link ..

Please help.

lsusb output is : 

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2001:3319 D-Link Corp.

dmesg output is : 

[  691.728363] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[  691.856817] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=2001, idProduct=3319
[  691.856822] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  691.856825] usb 1-3: Product: Wireless N Nano USB Adapter
[  691.856827] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  691.856829] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
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  • Please see: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/264654 Especially post #3. – chili555 Nov 04 '15 at 14:52
  • @chili555 I can't believe that such a popular hardware is not supported on Ubuntu !! There has to be some way ... like compiling / manually installing driver .. otherwise what's the point of being Ubuntu !! – Varun Verma Nov 05 '15 at 01:28
  • Related: http://askubuntu.com/a/792779/167850 – Pilot6 Jun 29 '16 at 15:01

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I packed this driver to a PPA with DKMS. It can be installed by

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192eu-dkms

I do not support this driver for 4.8+ kernels. For those who are using Ubuntu with 4.8+ kernels I suggest installing it from github using DKMS by

sudo apt-get install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8192eu-linux-driver
sudo dkms install rtl8192eu/1.0
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  • it works too for: TP-LINK TL-WN823N(EU) "VER 2.0 – gorlok Sep 16 '16 at 23:47
  • How can i use it for ver1.0? I tried to install it, the installation completed successfully, but the usb is not recognized (lsusb give me an empty line and the the green light is off)? btw - ubuntu 14.04 4.4.0-53-generic, TL-WN823N(EU) – Shai M. Dec 10 '16 at 17:11
  • I have no idea what v 1.0 is. Please ask a new question and post lsusb there. – Pilot6 Dec 10 '16 at 17:18
  • Sorry, i misunderstood. I got the Ver 2.0 of the network stick. I got the same lsusb as here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/820886/problem-with-tp-link-tl-wn823n?noredirect=1&lq=1 – Shai M. Dec 10 '16 at 17:30
  • With kernel 4.4 install the version for xenial. https://launchpad.net/~hanipouspilot/+archive/ubuntu/rtlwifi/+files/rtl8192eu-dkms_4.4_all.deb – Pilot6 Dec 10 '16 at 17:33
  • I done that, but my network stick still not recognized. I tried to install this before: https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver maybe I have a conflict or something? I'm a linux newbie – Shai M. Dec 10 '16 at 17:51
  • Ask a new question and explain what you do and what is the problem. – Pilot6 Dec 10 '16 at 18:09
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/859196/tp-wn823neu-ver-2-0-not-recognized-by-ubuntu-14-04-4-4-0-53-generic – Shai M. Dec 10 '16 at 18:15
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Try this - https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver

sudo apt-get install git build-essential
git clone https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver.git
cd rtl8192eu-linux-driver
sudo make
sudo make install
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  • This worked ... I had to make a small change in the Make file because I got an error ... I added following line in make file : EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Wno-date-time

    Let me test it for few days ... if it works without issues, I will accept this as answer

     – Varun Verma Dec 10 '15 at 14:30
  • This driver does not work in Raspberry Pi2. Kerner version 4.1.13 v7+

    Says recipe for target module failed in Makefile line 1323

    Any idea how to get it working on Raspbian ?

     – Varun Verma Dec 10 '15 at 15:04
  • Incredibly, this worked here. I just installed a test lubuntu 14.04 box under Virtualbox/Vagrant and this started up withou a hitch - within the VM. – kert Jan 10 '16 at 06:56