Wireless adapter not working CentOS7 [ TP-LINK TL-WN723N]

[vimj]

Hey guys,
I have almost given up trying to make this wireless adapter in CentOS. I will be really grateful if somebody here could give me any ideas on making this work,

I have tried the following:
1. Blacklisting the current rtl* drivers and compiling one for my adapter from scratch

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 cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist rtl8192cu
blacklist rtl8192c_common
blacklist rtlwifi
 

https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes
The driver compiled and installed just fine but I still don't see any options for WiFi.

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 make
make install
modprobe 8192cu
depmod -a
reboot

NOTE: I tried this with 8188eu drivers too but in vain

2. Install ndiswrapper from source and install a windows driver
https://github.com/Schwartz/ndiswrapper-patched-3.14/

My adapter came with a CD for Windows driver and I tried each of those drivers but only the Windows XP 64 bit ones installed fine with ndiswrapper.
I could see the driver and device listed when I ran ndiswrapper -l.
But, when I insert the USB, the system freezes.
I reinstalled my system, and tried once again, but the same result.

My lsusb looks like this

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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8009 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120 for Business
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Also, my network icon on the top right just shows, "Wired". Am guessing once the drivers are installed the wifi connections will populate that menu.

I have spent two days trying to get this to work. Also, its been a pain to install things as there is nothing much in the stock yum repos for centos 7.
I would really appreciate if somebody could help me here. This is a huge bummer for me, as I can't hook my desktop to wired internet and definitely need this to work.

[Hellboy]

Have you checked the elrepo repository. It contains lot's of drivers etc for rhel clones.
If the drivers is not listed maybe a request on the elrepo maillinglist.

[vimj]

Thanks for replying.
I do see a package named kmod-8188eu but it isn't available for CentOS 7.
I downloaded for el6 and tried to do an "rpm" install but it complained of broken dependencies. As you suggested, am probably going to request for this package on elrepo maiiing list.