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telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 96

[Solved] RTL8188EUS Driver issue

Hi all,

I bought a WiFi adapter that i am not able to get to work in arch because of the drivers probably. The chipset is

 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
 

I found the driver to be

 8188eu-dkms 

, but when installing this appears (although after driver appears as installed but i guess its not correctly)

 (1/1) Remove upgraded DKMS modules
==> Unable to remove module 8188eu/v4.3.0.8_13968 for kernel 5.4.66-1-lts: Not found in dkms status output.
==> Unable to remove module 8188eu/v4.3.0.8_13968 for kernel 5.8.10-arch1-1: Not found in dkms status output.
:: Processing package changes...

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Deleting module version: v4.3.0.8_13968
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
(1/1) reinstalling 8188eu-dkms                                                                                                                 [########################################################################################] 100%

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/8188eu/v4.3.0.8_13968/source ->
                 /usr/src/8188eu-v4.3.0.8_13968

DKMS: add completed.
Error! echo
Your kernel headers for kernel 5.8.9-arch2-1 cannot be found at
/usr/lib/modules/5.8.9-arch2-1/build or /usr/lib/modules/5.8.9-arch2-1/source.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.
error: command failed to execute correctly
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Install DKMS modules
==> Unable to install module 8188eu/v4.3.0.8_13968 for kernel 5.4.66-1-lts: Missing kernel modules tree.
==> Unable to install module 8188eu/v4.3.0.8_13968 for kernel 5.8.10-arch1-1: Missing kernel modules tree.

I looked around how to solve this but didnt manage to tackle it, any help appreciated!

**Edit, kernel-headers pkg is installed

Last edited by telis80 (2020-09-26 16:49:05)

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] RTL8188EUS Driver issue

Looks like you have the headers for 5.8.10, but have the 5.8.9 kernel. Classic partial update.

telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 96

Re: [Solved] RTL8188EUS Driver issue

You are totally right! How i missed that xD. Thank you for the help! Marked as solved!

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