- Possibly you will need the kernel-source, kernel-headers and gc++ installed prior to the following instructions.
- Get the latest drivers from the following link, download the driver Linux Kernel 2.6.18~2.6.38 and kernel 3.0.8.
- Blacklist some of the current rtl drivers, by adding the following to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
- blacklist rtl8192cu,
- blacklist rtl8192c_common,
- blacklist rtlwifi
- Just doing an install.sh of the driver didn't quite cut it, I needed to apply a patch for it to compile, I used the 2 attachments found on this link from the user tim_philips.
- I downloaded both attachments, potentially you need an account to download them but I am unsure.
- put the download of the driver, the txt and sh file in the same folder.
- Run run in terminal as root user: bash ./patch_rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v3.4.4_4749.20121105.sh
- If you want to know what the script does, you can take a look, it just unzips a couple of things applies the patch and makes and installs the driver.
- One other thing if yo update your kernel, chances are you need to redo all of this, doesn't take 2 minutes :-)
That should be everything. Hope this helps. Potentially you need a reboot just to remove the currently installed drivers or you can take a look for them using lsmod and doing an rmmod <with the module names that you added to the blacklist>
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