driver for TP-LINK TL-WN723N

[sebastianMember]

Hi there,

is there already a driver for this WLAN-Stick available? Under http://www.fars-robotics.net/ there is a description and download instruction for a driver which should work but the installation mentions “install -p -m …” which gives me “sh install: no such file or directory”. How can I get this working?

tia

Sebastian

[Warped RudiModerator]

There seems to be three revisions of this adapter. So I cannot tell. We have support for the RTL8188CUS, which appears to be used in revision 2 of the WN723N. But I tested it here only with EdiMax EW-7811UN devices.

[sebastianMember]

Hi Rudi,

sorry, was a typo. I have a WN725N. Therefore it is a RTL8188EUS. Do you also have support for this chip?

tia

Sebastian

[tomlohaveModerator]

I’m creating a package from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu

[sebastianMember]

Hi Tom,

thanks for the information. When it is ready where can it be found?

tia

Sebastian

[tomlohaveModerator]

it depends on your hardware … which one ?
it’s already ready for rpi

[sebastianMember]

Hi Tom

sorry, I just found it…
Thanks for you effort!

thx

Sebastian

[sebastianMember]

Hi Tom,

I just tried to install the package (downloaded -> opkg install rtl* -> first error: something about that a package “rtl8188eufw.bin” is already installed from another package, after that I modified to opkg install rtl* -force-overwrite which shows “depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/3.10.38/modules.order: no such file or directory” and “depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/3.10.38/modules.builtin: no such file or directory”). Do you have any hints on this?

tia

Sebastian

[Warped RudiModerator]

“rtl8188eufw.bin” is most likely already part of the global linux firmware package. The depmod warnings can be ignored. So I’d say the new driver is installed on your system. If it works is another question…

[Kev0Member]

Got the same problem here.
If got the TL-WN725N too and try to find the right module… any hints how to get it work?

[tomlohaveModerator]

try to install rtl8188eu
then reboot
let us know if it works.

[Kev0Member]

Sorry but I don’t know how to compile, unless there is no stupid save instruction or an opkg file I’m out

Edit:

Acctually there is one

But this is what I get

# opkg install rtl8188eu
Installing rtl8188eu (git+63fe7cda-1) to root...
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-armada5xx-cubox/latest/binaries.cubox/packages//rtl8188eu_git+63fe7cda-1_armv7.opk.
Collected errors:
 * check_data_file_clashes: Package rtl8188eu wants to install file /firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin
        But that file is already provided by package  * check_data_file_clashes: firmware-nic-wifi-realtek
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package rtl8188eu.

# opkg -force-overwrite install rtl8188eu
Installing rtl8188eu (git+63fe7cda-1) to root...
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-armada5xx-cubox/latest/binaries.cubox/packages//rtl8188eu_git+63fe7cda-1_armv7.opk.
Configuring rtl8188eu.
Post install:
  Running depmod ...
depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/3.6.9/modules.order: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/3.6.9/modules.builtin: No such file or directory
Done, reboot required

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Kev0.
• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Kev0.

[tomlohaveModerator]

and after a reboot ?
ifconfig returns ?

[Kev0Member]

Cool dont know why but here I got

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr D0:63:B4:00:00:9B
          inet addr:192.168.178.27  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7233 (7.0 KiB)  TX bytes:19054 (18.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:29
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:409 (409.0 B)  TX bytes:409 (409.0 B)
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C0:4A:00:16:3A:14
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
 

• This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Kev0.

[tomlohaveModerator]

ok; now that you have wlan0 interface , you can start to play with /etc/network

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