8188eu driver and (possibly) kernel source issue

[Hasanur Rashid]

hello,

I am running Armbian 5.17 on nanopi neo(linux kernel 3.4.112).Today I built Debian jessie 8 image using the armbian build tool.

Now I am using D-link DWA123 dongle for wifi(rev d1,rtl8188eu chip).Now it didnt work out of the box(used wicd-curses for wifi setup,nothing shows up).So I decided to build the driver.

I pulled the source from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu

and then I went to src directory /usr/src/linux...and ran

make scripts

which didnt return any error.

after that I went inot rtl8188eu directory and ran

make ARCH=arm

and this is the reply I got,

make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun8i/build M=/home/npi/rtl8188eu  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 0 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-3.4.112-sun8i'

after that, "sudo make install" returned error and i saw that nothing was built.

I tried the same in Ubuntu 14.04 trusty 3.4.112 and driver was compiled successfully but it didnt work either.The dongle is okay(I checked i on my Ubuntu Desktop and it worked)

Now is this a bug??

 

[Igor]

It's a bug but not ours. Sources could be broken, not configured properly, ...

 

If you don't get an error that the module might even be built - check if .ko exists and load it manually.

 

We are not supporting 3rd party USB wifi adaptors because the Armbian project is too small to cover this.

 

What you can do? Try to find better driver which will work or try to repair this one if you got the skills.

[Hasanur Rashid]

That building problem has been fixed.I rebuilt another image and that time may be the fix was provided.

once I managed to build the driver,I removed the existing 8192cu and 8188eu driver and then inserted the newly built one and it worked.