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
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
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
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.