[SOLVED] wifi woes

[gc88]

I'm unable to get this Edimax USB wifi card working.

System info:

Lenovo w530,
root@deb9:~# uname -ra
Linux deb9 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Mate desktop 1.16.2

root@deb9:~# cat /etc/debian_version
9.4

lsusb output:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]

Steps taken:

I installed the driver supplied by the manufacturer on the cd supplied which was a simple extraction of the tar ball and then running the install.sh script as per their documentation. Which results in an error:

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/scripts/Makefile.build:298: recipe for target '/home/glen/Wifi-driver/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/driver/rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/core/rtw_debug.o' failed
make[4]: *** [/home/glen/Wifi-driver/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/driver/rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/core/rtw_debug.o] Error 1
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common/Makefile recipe for target '_module_/home/glen/Wifi-driver/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/driver/rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422' failed
make[3]: *** [_module_/home/glen/Wifi-driver/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422/driver/rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v4.0.5_11249.20140422] Error 2
Makefile:152: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64'
Makefile:718: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2
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Compile make driver error: 2
Please check error Mesg
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Next, I installed the firmware-realtek package which was fine. However I am still unable to get the device to connect. It finds the wifi network, I enter the password but it just does not connect.

Any help would be appreciated thanks

[bw123]

Have you read/followed this?
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x

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However I am still unable to get the device to connect. It finds the wifi network, I enter the password but it just does not connect.
...

What are you using to connect? If it's network manager there is a well known bug in wifi.scan-rand-mac-address setting, easy to find on a search.

[gc88]

Have you read/followed this?
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x

...
However I am still unable to get the device to connect. It finds the wifi network, I enter the password but it just does not connect.
...

What are you using to connect? If it's network manager there is a well known bug in wifi.scan-rand-mac-address setting, easy to find on a search.

Yes, I am using network-manager.

Edit:

I found the bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... =842422#40

I added the following line to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf then restarted network-manager and now it works.
Thanks for the help


[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

[arzgi]

Great news! Can you please edit the header of your first post of the thread, and add [SOLVED] to front of header.