/tlwn8200nddriver

Linux driver for TP-Link WN8200NDV2

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TP-Link WN8200ND V2 driver for Linux

This is the Linux driver for TP-LINK WN8200ND V2. After many tries i finally managed to get it working

Explanation

The V2 model of the Wifi adapter uses RTL8192EU (unlike the original which uses RTL8192CU). However the drivers that can be found on TP-LINK's site won't compile under Ubuntu 18.04 (or any newer Linux kernel for that matter) But the rtl8192eu-linux-driver doesn't recognize the usbid of this card (2357:0126) so what i did is i copied osdep/linux/usb_intf.c to rtl8192eu-linux-driver and suddenly everything worked

Installation

You will need build-essentials (or base-devel if you are on Arch) or kernel headers, compiler...

$ git clone https://github.com/luckynzm/tlwn8200nddriver.git
$ cd tlwn8200nddriver
$ sudo dkms add .
$ sudo dkms install rtl8192eu/1.0

This will take some time

# nano /etc/modules
Put the 8192eu at the end of the file
# reboot (if you want to).

Bugs

The activity LED on the usb adapter doesn't turn on The kernel spams alot of messages during startup about the driver

Copyright

I don't really know who has the copyright to this driver but i would like to thank the contributors of rtl8192eu-linux-driver for fixing the driver for newer kernels I felt the need to share this driver because i've seen a lot of people can't get this adapter working on Linux