Having a hard time getting RTL8188EU WiFi dongle to work on orange pi pc 2. I’ve spent weeks trying to figure this out reading on the internet and a few posts on this forum. Tried installing several WiFi drivers including a few drivers from GitHub. The drivers appear to install successfully but when entering command $lshw, the device still shows as *-usb UNCLAIMED. Any help would be appreciated.

armbianmonitor -u

 

Armbian includes drivers for this chip: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/53e4bc2d38cfd8efaab4579341530f2c0e01bf85/lib/compilation-prepare.sh#L330

They should work just fine.

I am actually having the same issue and am on the most recent Armbian for Rock Pi 4(A) I used the 'Armbian_21.02.1_Rockpi-4a_bionic_current_5.10.12_minimal' image. 

 

when I run 'ip a' in Ubuntu it sees the usb adapter, but in Armbian it doesn't even see it, which is kind of odd. 

I have the tp-link tl-wn725n, which uses RTL8188EUS.

 

My keyboard works fine. Anyone have insight into this weird situation?

2 hours ago, aht said:

when I run 'ip a' in Ubuntu it sees the usb adapter,

Use Ubuntu then.

 

2 hours ago, aht said:

which is kind of odd. 

Odd is that you are complaining on this support contract: https://github.com/armbian/build#support

 

But the problem was fixed - you just need to wait until the next release or DIY https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

Hello,

 

trying to get a USB-N10 Nano wireless adapter by Asus running with Cubieborad2 I came across this thread. The adapter also employs the Realtek kernel driver 8188eu. Is the issue supposed to fixed in recent edge builds? I have tried Armbian_21.08.0-trunk.7_Cubieboard2_hirsute_edge_5.11.16.img.xz, but the network stick does not work. I might have missed to install some required packages though.

 

As a side note, the stick works as expected on the same board running Fedora 33 ARM.

 

Regards, Christoph

Since also the recent image "Armbian_21.05.1_Cubieboard2_buster_current_5.10.34.img.xz" gave me trouble with 8188eu driver, I built it myself from the Github sources[1]. This works nicely and upstream issues appear to be fixed.

 

[1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu