Tp-link Tl-wn722n Driver For Ubuntu 12.04

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Tp-link Tl-wn722n Driver For Ubuntu 12.04

I am writing this post just to share my experience and solution of the TP-Link TL-WN722N USB and how to make it work. I am using ubuntu server 12.04 and it works in newer versions as well, out if the box. The steps that i have followed are: -apt-get update, apt-get upgrade -plug the usb adapter -apt-get install wireless-tools usbutils -edit the file /etc/network/interfaces and add a section for the wifi.

If you have only one wifi it gets recognised as wlan0. Verify with dmesq auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid 'SSID_name' wpa-psk 'passwd_wifi' -issue iwconfig in the command line and if you see the. Wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID ff/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr ff Fragment thr ff Encryption key ff Power Management ff. You are good to go. -scan for network name only with the command iwlist wlan0 scan grep ESSID -if unsuccessful then reboot and try again.

TP-Link TL-WN822N 300MBPS High Gain Wireless N USB Adapter on Ubuntu 12.04 It has been quite a long time, over a decade to be precise, since I last used Linux. I have to remember good old friend Linux out of necessity. A decade ago I used RH Linux and I remember clearly I had to waste all my time in finding out drivers and making Linux work on bulky Compaq Presario machine. This time I decided to try out Ubuntu after I kept reading all praises for it. I wasn’t disappointed. Within few hours I was all ready to rock ‘n’ roll with this shiny Ubuntu system without much trouble until I decided to hook to it.

Newest 'drivers' Questions - Ask Ubuntu. The rtl8192cu linux driver is really sketchy, I can’t quite figure it out. At one point I had an rtl8188 chip working great. Though question is not so clear that why you are not able to install driver, you can find driver in this link for your devices. Download driver for linux, you need to manually compile and install driver please refer to readme doc which you will find with the. How to install TP-LINK TL-WN722N on Ubuntu? How to install driver for TP-Link TL-WN722N on Ubuntu 14.04? No, hp pavillion g6 2237, Ubuntu 12.04)?

It fails and I was right all along in assuming that no matter how far Linux can evolve it will never catch up with the Windows when it comes to working with external devices. Before purchasing this adapter I did research to make sure that it works with Ubuntu 12.04.

I did find some forum posts with problems but they were resolved and I hoped that if I ran into trouble I’ll be able to resolve it as well. It’s lazy saturday afternoon and I’ve already wasted whole of morning in figuring out how to make TP-Link TL-WN822N work with Ubuntu 12.04. I took wrong turn and went through all the fixes posted on various forums. Unfortunately none of them worked for me. I even ended up in upgrading, re-installing and finally installing ubuntu 12.04 from scratch. The Problem TL-WN822N shows up in the usb device list. Run following command and you will see the adapter is listed.

Lsusb In the network connection I could see loads of other Wireless networks except mine. This proved that there was no problem with the device itself and problem lies in the driver. The Solution It’s already late afternoon when I finally got it working. The simple, short and sweet solution is to install the latest Realtek driver. Following are step by step instructions. 1) Download Realtek driver for Linux from Realtek website Visit following link and download driver from the mirror sites mentioned.

If above link doesn’t work then search for RTL8192CU driver on Realtek website. 2) Download and install the driver After downloading above driver, unzip it.

Cd to the folder where you unzipped the driver and run following commands. Gfi Faxmaker14 Link TXTM. If you are not root then use sudo before these commands where required.

Chmod 755./install.sh./install.sh 3) Blacklist existing drivers vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf At the end add followings blacklist rtl8192cu blacklist rtl8192c_common blacklist rtlwifi 4) Auto load module vi /etc/modules Add 8192cu at the end of this file. 5) Reboot reboot After above I could see my Wireless network which works like a charm without any trouble. I ended up wasting my whole day on this simple problem.