Hi everybody!

 

I have the Armbian OS on OrangePi PC and I try to connect it to my WiFi router.  For this purpose I have a Realtek USB RTL8188. I tried to connect it a couple of time, but it was unsuccessful. The "Connecting" pop-up window remains on the screen for minutes without connecting to the internet. Perhaps the Armbian does not have the right driver for this device? I have it, but I have no idea how to install it. Can someone help me, please?

Hard to say where exactly is the problem without some logs ... and yes, it's possible that this particular WiFi chip doesn't work out of the box. Kernel could be without a a proper driver or perhaps only firmware is missing?

 

If you have driver sources:  https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-build-a-wireless-driver

Just checking an Legacy sitting in my image folder (because I'm usually using only Mainline), I could see that the driver is already present in my Armbian_5.24_Orangepizero_Debian_jessie_3.4.113.img.

So, it should be in OPiPC image too ...

Take a look in path such the following for both driver and firmware :

/lib/modules/3.4.113-sun8i/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8188eu/8188eu.ko
/mnt/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin