install driver for edimax ew-7833uac wifi nic

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wlfehr
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install driver for edimax ew-7833uac wifi nic

Post by wlfehr » 2017/06/05 12:51:22

Do you have an instruction for installing the driver for the Edimax EW-7833UAC wifi nic? The driver file is available from Edimax.

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Re: install driver for edimax ew-7833uac wifi nic

Post by TrevorH » 2017/06/05 12:55:03

Use lspci -nn or lsusb to find the vendor/device ids and then use those to check for support in the current kernel - for example, if you had a device with vendor id 0xabcd and device id 0x1234 you could check using grep -i abcd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* | grep -i 1234 - if there is no output then there is no support. At that point you consult the ELRepo third party repo and see if they have already created a kmod package to support it instead.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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