February 27, 20233 yr I was able to get RTL8188FTV $2.00 US USB wifi https://www.ebay.com/itm/123713550193 working with a script I made from a forked project. The power saver has already been disabled in the Makefile. Check out https://github.com/sgjava/rtl8188fu/tree/arm. I've tested this on ARM 32 and ARM 64, but not x86 or x86_64. This is currently a dkms module that requires beta repos to get matching kernel headers.
February 28, 20233 yr Good timing! I had a couple of these arrive yesterday. In the script, it says sudo -E apt -y install linux-headers-edge-$LINUXFAMILY >> $logfile 2>&1 Is this because it's only expected to work with the edge kernel, or if I change "edge" to "current" in that line, should it work for the current kernel?
February 28, 20233 yr Author Good catch, I need to get the release as well. I'll fix that tomorrow. For now you can use the manual steps and "current".
February 28, 20233 yr Author @Tim Makariosall set. I added BRANCH for the linux headers. I also fixed the prompt for /etc/issues asked during apt upgrade.
March 1, 20233 yr Thanks! I can confirm that the script works on my Rock64 board, running bullseye CLI with the current branch. At first I thought it wasn't working, but then I moved it to a different spot and tried an open WiFi network. I'm still not sure if I can get it working with my normal WPA2/WPA3 network. Oh, and you might want to change "edge" to "$BRANCH" in the manual instructions, too.
March 1, 20233 yr Author @Tim Makarios made change to README. WPA2 personal worked for me. I don't have WPA3, so you are on your own there. And yes the antenna is not very good, but I get 20 Mbs going through 2 rooms with drywall board.
March 3, 20233 yr I did a little more experimenting, and found that it connects without a problem when I tell it to use WPA2, rather than WPA3. I don't know whether the problem with WPA3 is in my router or the client, but WPA2 is good enough for now. I can also confirm that your script works on an A64-LTS board, too, so thank you again!
March 3, 20233 yr Author @Tim Makarios I tested on NanoPi M1 32 bit and Pine 64 64 bit. I believe if the kernel headers install then it will most likely work. I cannot test WPA3. If it works with another adapter on the same distro/board then maybe it's the source.
March 8, 20233 yr On Jammy (Gnome, current, Rock64), I had to manually install dkms before the script would work.
March 8, 20233 yr Author @Tim Makarios Yeah, I suspect there's going to be consistency issues depending on the distro and board. I'll go ahead and add the build stuff since it wont hurt if it's already there.
December 5, 20232 yr Successfully built on armv7l. Thanks for releasing the script! [ 2810.712732] rtl8188fu: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 2810.818513] ======================================================= [ 2810.818520] ==== Launching Wi-Fi driver! (Powered by Rockchip) ==== [ 2810.818525] ======================================================= [ 2810.818529] Realtek 8188FU USB WiFi driver (Powered by Rockchip) init. [ 2810.818535] RTL871X: module init start [ 2810.818541] RTL871X: rtl8188fu v4.3.23.6_20964.20170110 [ 2810.820396] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8188fu [ 2810.820456] RTL871X: module init ret=0 May I ask if I need to run it again every time I upgrade the kernel? Cheers !3runo from Brazil Edited December 5, 20232 yr by BLFC
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