Arch Linux

pavilionarch

Member

Registered: 2016-12-14

Posts: 3

Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN725N

I have a laptop with Arch that I recently clean installed. It had Arch on it before and wifi worked perfectly on it. But now the wireless card doesn't work anymore so I bought a TP-LINK TL-WN725N. I've looked everywhere online and could still not find a solution/way to get it working. It's in the UP state. but it can't find any networks let alone connect to them

thanks

frank604

Member

From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,219

Re: Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN725N

A search on google shows that tl-wn725n uses rtl8188eu.  Either try 1) install manually https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu or 2) see if the aur package works https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8188eu-git/
The AUR is user submitted so you might need to modify the pkgbuild.

pavilionarch

Member

Registered: 2016-12-14

Posts: 3

Re: Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN725N

I hate to be the noob in this situation but how do I go about manually installing that github repo?

EDIT: nvm I figured it out

Last edited by pavilionarch (2016-12-14 02:38:52)

pavilionarch

Member

Registered: 2016-12-14

Posts: 3

Re: Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN725N

I've solved my issue. I installed wpa_gui and that seems to have fixed my issue

alex.theoto

Member

From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: Setting up TP-LINK TL-WN725N

Don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED]