Getting my Mini Wireless N USB Adapter to work with Zorin

[JustJeff]

Due to recurring network issues I've had in the past over reliability, I decided to spend some money on getting a good USB WIFI adapter. However, I'm a bit lost when it comes to setting up the drivers within Zorin to work accordingly with it.

Information About the Adapter
Brand: tp-link
Model: TL-WN823N

Zorin shows it as a recognised adapter, but I am unable to connect to any networks with it. I am also aware that this model supports Linux, but the instructions I read were complicated and not really helpful if you got stuck somewhere along the process. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Storm]

Can you link to the instruction?

[JustJeff]

Download for TL-WN823N | TP-Link United Kingdom

This has all the files that are linked to the adapter. There’s a Linux beta download for it but I don’t know how to install it so. The manual is also linked on it

[Storm]

Which kernel are you using? (you can use neofetch to display it in the terminal).

[JustJeff]

Neofetch didn’t work but by using uname-r I got the following:

5.13.0-30-generic

[Storm]

Building bricks for compiling

sudo apt install build-essential gcc linux-headers-5.13.0-30-generic

extract the driver, inside the driver is another file that need extraction, do so.

Then change the directory into the extracted folders

cd ~/Downloads/TP-Link_Driver_Linux_series8_beta/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047

Next compiling:

make clean
make

Then move and activate the driver

sudo cp 88x2bu.ko /lib/modules/5.13.0-30-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
sudo depmod –a
sudo modprobe 88x2bu

Then check if the driver is successful installed:

lsmod

[JustJeff]

None of the commands seem to run after the cd command.

[Storm]

My fault a ' sneaked in. Close the terminal and ttry again I have corrected the error.

[JustJeff]

cp: cannot stat '88x2bu.ko': No such file or directory

The log of the make command after I ran make clean was the following:

make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.13.0-30-generic/build M=/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047  modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.13.0-30-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/core/rtw_cmd.o
In file included from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service.h:47,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/drv_types.h:27,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/core/rtw_cmd.c:17:
/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service_linux.h: In function ‘_init_timer’:
/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service_linux.h:299:8: error: ‘_timer’ {aka ‘struct timer_list’} has no member named ‘data’
  299 |  ptimer->data = (unsigned long)cntx;
      |        ^~
/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service_linux.h:300:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’; did you mean ‘_init_timer’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  300 |  init_timer(ptimer);
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~
      |  _init_timer
In file included from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/drv_types.h:30,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/core/rtw_cmd.c:17:
/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/wifi.h: At top level:
/home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/wifi.h:1031: warning: "IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_BUF" redefined
 1031 | #define IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_BUF 0x40
      | 
In file included from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service_linux.h:83,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/osdep_service.h:47,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/include/drv_types.h:27,
                 from /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/core/rtw_cmd.c:17:
./include/linux/ieee80211.h:1657: note: this is the location of the previous definition
 1657 | #define IEEE80211_MAX_AMPDU_BUF  0x100
      | 
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:281: /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047/core/rtw_cmd.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1879: /home/jeffrey/Downloads/rtl8192EU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.19.1_25633.20171222_COEX20171113-0047] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.13.0-30-generic'
make: *** [Makefile:1828: modules] Error 2

[Storm]

any errors while running make?
also give me

ls -a

[JustJeff]

Check the edit, also, ls -a gives the following:

.  ..  clean  core  hal  ifcfg-wlan0  include  Kconfig  Makefile  os_dep  platform  runwpa  wlan0dhcp  wpa_0_8.conf

[Storm]

I'll see if I can compile it...

[Storm]

No cigar.
I'm wondering if it's because it's a beta driver. As it stated on their page it could give problems. I'll try the stable one.

[Storm]

No cigar either, but I found this might help:

How do I get a TP-Link TL-WN823N V3 wireless adapter working?

[JustJeff]

I’ll try it later, but thank you for your advice!

[Storm]

If you get stuck in the guide posted, please report back so we can help.