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kulak

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Registered: 2020-12-27

Posts: 23

TP-Link TL-WN881ND or rtl8192ee

I run into an issue with Wireless N PCI Express Adapter identified as:

03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8196
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 134
    I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
    Memory at b1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ee
    Kernel modules: rtl8192ee, 8192ee

It appears as if it is detected by kernel, it is loaded and attempts to authenticate.  But then it fails.  journalctl logs:

Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: authenticate with 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: send auth to 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68 (try 1/3)
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: associate with 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68 (try 1/3)
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: RX AssocResp from 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=7)
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: associated
Feb 17 01:08:13 kidsta kernel: wlan0: Limiting TX power to 30 (30 - 0) dBm as advertised by 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68
Feb 17 01:08:17 kidsta kernel: wlan0: deauthenticated from 80:ea:96:f0:f1:68 (Reason: 2=PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID)

Last line above indicates an error.

The solution for me ended up with installation of vendor driver from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192ee.  Quick installation insructions:

git clone [url]https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192ee.git[/url]
cd rtl8192ee
make all

if `make all` fails with build directory not found you need to install Linux headers:

pacman -S linux-headers

Just follow README instructions in the project.

Last edited by kulak (2021-02-17 11:35:30)

templeos

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Registered: 2021-06-04

Posts: 1

Re: TP-Link TL-WN881ND or rtl8192ee

I have been using this driver with same adapter through many kernel updates, thank you!

Last edited by templeos (2023-10-07 12:31:53)