Problems installing Edimax or Aus wireless usb Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

**franciscothekid** · July 26th, 2017

Hi

I've tried installing two different usb wireless adapters without success.

The edimax comes with linux drivers but I'm unsure how to install them.

Have tried ndswrapper without success.

wireless info txt attached.

all suggestions appreciated.

Running

**Bucky Ball** · July 26th, 2017

Welcome. Erm, did you run the wireless.info with one of the USB dongles plugged in? You should. There is nothing showing in your output.

Get rid of ndiswrapper. It will only make your job harder and is archaic and superceded in 99% of cases and may actually prevent your card from working. Forget about the Linux drivers that came with the dongles. They are generally useless.

Easiest at this point would be to plug in one of the dongles, open a terminal and run these two commands one after the other:

Code:

lsusb
sudo lshw -C network

Copy and save the output. Pull the first dongle out, plug in the other and run those commands again. Paste the output of those commands from both dongles here and we can see the wireless chipsets the two are using (hopefully) and proceed with the one that is going to be easiest to get up.

You don't have a wireless on/off physical button somewhere on the keyboard of you computer that is off do you? May be a silly question, but one never knows! I've done worse.

**franciscothekid** · July 26th, 2017

Thanks for the quick response.

Edimax

Code:

testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 7392:a611 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:074b Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1532:0032 Razer USA, Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Code:

testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 0c
       serial: 1c:1b:0d:c6:a8:61
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 ip=192.168.0.17 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:28 ioport:ce00(size=256) memory:fd9ff000-fd9fffff memory:fdffc000-fdffffff
testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$

Code:

ASUS
testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$: command not found
testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0b05:184c ASUSTek Computer, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:074b Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1532:0032 Razer USA, Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Code:

testbench@testbench-GA-78LMT-USB3-6-0:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 0c
       serial: 1c:1b:0d:c6:a8:61
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 ip=192.168.0.17 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:28 ioport:ce00(size=256) memory:fd9ff000-fd9fffff memory:fdffc000-fdffffff

**Bucky Ball** · July 26th, 2017

Neither card is showing up. Do you, by any chance, have these plugged in to a USB hub? Try plugging directly into the computer and chuck us the output of the 'sudo lshw -C network' commands again.

Both show up in your 'lsusb' output, but your system is not picking them up beyond that for some reason.

Be aware that I am no expert but can provide some basic info and troubleshooting help. There are some 'wireless gurus' around here who will hopefully jump in sooner or later and may have a fix pronto. For now, let's see if we can get at least one of the cards recognised and maybe better.

* Another command you can try to confirm it is not being seen (or is) is:

Code:

iwconfig

You are looking for signs of a 'Network Controller'. Something like this.

Code:

~$ iwconfig
wlp3s0    IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"AccessPoint"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 10:0D:7F:DE:92:BA   
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=60/70  Signal level=-50 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:1   Missed beacon:0

enp2s0    no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

... but not exactly that. "AccessPoint" is the name of MY network. Yours should be the one you are connected to. "wlp3s0" is the wireless card, but yours may be called something different.

(PS: Please use [code] tags for terminal output. See green link in first line of my signature at bottom of post for how.)

**franciscothekid** · July 26th, 2017

they are plugged directly into the mother board I/O panel.

**Bucky Ball** · July 26th, 2017

Good. I have since edited my post. Please re-read. You were too quick for me.

BTW, make sure you DO NOT have them both plugged in at the same time. One or the other, please.

**chili555** · July 26th, 2017

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0b05:184c ASUSTek Computer, Inc.

That is your wireless device. Here is more information about it: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2362669 At post #11, our colleague Jeremy provides a working driver but only for 4.4 kernels. You are running 4.10.

This driver 'makes' for me with a few warnings but no errors and seems to cover your device:

Code:

filename:       /home/chili/Desktop/Forum/rtl8822bu/8822bu.ko
version:        v5.1.0-5_17968.20160601_BTCOEX20160411-1400_beta
author:         Brandon Bailey <brandondanielbailey@gmail.com>
description:    Realtek Wireless Lan Driver
license:        GPL
srcversion:     5BD8B5BDDE5F15D44C8C01E
alias:          usb:v0BDApB82Cd*dc*dsc*dp*icFFiscFFipFFin*
alias:          usb:v0B05p184Cd*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*
alias:          usb:v7392pB822d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*
alias:          usb:v0B05p1812d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*
<snip>

https://github.com/brandon-bailey/rtl8822bu

The process to build it is:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/brandon-bailey/rtl8822bu.git
cd rtl8822bu
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8822bu

**franciscothekid** · July 26th, 2017

no luck.
wireless connection still not showing.

**chili555** · July 26th, 2017

Originally Posted by franciscothekid

no luck.
wireless connection still not showing.

No luck means what?? You tried to compile it and there were errors? No errors but the driver doesn't modprobe? Or ... what?

Are there any clues in the log?

Code:

sudo modprobe 8822bu && dmesg | grep 8822
iwconfig

**franciscothekid** · July 26th, 2017

Code:

22
[sudo] password for testbench: 
[  205.972117] 8822bu: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[  205.975115] 8822bu: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[  205.983895] RTW: rtl8822bu v5.1.0-5_17968.20160601_BTCOEX20160411-1400_beta
[  205.983896] RTW: rtl8822bu BT-Coex version = BTCOEX20160411-1400
[  205.983931] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8822bu

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