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jacklu333333

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Registered: 2020-09-24

Posts: 4

Realtek RTL8188GU Driver

Hi,
I recently bought a new USB wifi card and tried to create a hotspot from my PC. However, I could not find the driver anywhere. I was wondering is there any alternative solution for it or not?

This is what I got after I command lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0bda:1a2b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188GU 802.11n WLAN Adapter (Driver CDROM Mode)

Hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,192

Re: Realtek RTL8188GU Driver

You are probably out of luck: (lwinger is the one person who collects pretty much all realtek drivers)

IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ:

I have not found a Linux driver for the RTRL8188GU.

This one will build, but it will fail on your device.

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jacklu333333

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Registered: 2020-09-24

Posts: 4

Re: Realtek RTL8188GU Driver

Thank you for your reply.
I already check the Github repo. I was hoping there might be some other solution that can resolve this issue.
Unfortunately, it seems I bought the wrong device.

KriK

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Registered: 2012-05-14

Posts: 7

Re: Realtek RTL8188GU Driver

Found a working solution: https://github.com/McMCCRU/rtl8188gu
Pull request for 5.10 kernels: https://github.com/McMCCRU/rtl8188gu/pull/3

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: Realtek RTL8188GU Driver

Thanks for the input. As the OP has not been here since October, I am going to consider this thread abandoned and close it.

jacklu333333, if you come back and want this thread reopened, use the Report link.