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dynosaw

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Registered: 2018-07-12

Posts: 44

[SOLVED] Installation AUR package (wiFi dongle driver) 8192eu-dkms un

[SOLVED]
The motivation is to get a TP-Link type TL-823N wifi USB adapter working.
The active WiFi chip is a RealTek RTL-8192eu

Installation of the driver package 8192eu-dkms from AUR has failed, possibly
because this is my first attempt ever to install from AUR.
Can someone please advise how to continue??

BASICS
-- Machine is a stand-alone, domestic, AMD-64, PC, running Arch 5.32.1-LTS
-- Motherboard is ASUS A88XM-A, in "Legacy BIOS" mode

ARCH Wikis CONSULTED (amongst others)
"Wireless Network Configuration", "Arch User Repository",  "PKGBUILD"
and some stuff about the kernel.

WHAT DID I DO (The whole story is a text file of 196 lines; a summary follows)
a)  AUR snapshot 8192eu-dkms downloaded to ~/AUR and "un-tarred".
b)  PKGBUILD and ,SRCINFO files inspected; seemed OK to me.
c)  Ran command: $ makepkg --syncdeps --clean --install
d)  Checked installation with command:   $ pacman -Q 8192eu-dkms
           Response:    8192eu-dkms 142.ab35c7e-1
    So I assume pacman did its job well
e)  Attempt to install/enable kernel module fails
    [as root]#    modprobe -a 8192eu-dkms
        modprobe: WARNING: Module 8192eu-dkms not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.32-1-lts
f) ... more checks ...
   [as root]# modinfo 8192eu-dkms
        modinfo: ERROR: Module 8192eu-dkms not found.
   [as roo]# systool -v -m 8192eu-dkms
        Error opening module 8192eu-dkms

HELP NEEDED
Advice in simple steps. Where do I go from here??

Thanks in advance
Dynosaw
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Last edited by dynosaw (2021-05-02 17:54:36)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] Installation AUR package (wiFi dongle driver) 8192eu-dkms un

The module name to load and inspect will be 8192eu , without the dkms. Also this will only work if you've installed the relevant headers package as well, in this case linux-lts-headers.

DKMS is a utility for automating kernel module rebuilds for whenever the kernel updates: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … le_Support the resulting modules will always be without the "-dkms" suffix, but you should see a build of a module happen every time there's an update to your kernel.

Last edited by V1del (2021-05-01 10:24:01)

dynosaw

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Registered: 2018-07-12

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED] Installation AUR package (wiFi dongle driver) 8192eu-dkms un

It was that simple! The dongle now works correctly.
Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding.
The issue is now solved.
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2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation AUR package (wiFi dongle driver) 8192eu-dkms un

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).