No WIFI dongle/adapter FOUND on Mageia 8.

[reltek]

Today (2-7-25)

Last week, I purchased a WIFI dongle to be used on my Mageia 8. I made sure that the dongle/adapter works on other system and it does plug and play; Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Windows, etc When I tried the adapter on Mageia 8 system, the system doesn't even see the adapter as if it doesn't exist at all.

WIFI dongle on Amazon
Cudy AC1300 WiFi USB 3.0 Adapter for PC, USB WiFi Dongle, 5Ghz /2.4Ghz, WiFi USB 3.0, Wireless Adapter for Desktop/Laptop, Compatible with Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11, mac OS 10.6～10.15.3, Linux, WU1300S
https://www.amazon.com/Cudy-WU1300S-1300Mbps-Wireless-Compatible/dp/B084FS7BWF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CL6LHAY73C4N&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gxG6-PVEvCQOJ-fby8On17R4X_cXwP4hSoo3Vf_qq9MoIdwgZiPheAzydmAjtEaW_D-b99XfBLjlXw5YCIt3jYVjxAX3BE52GKskn8pW9cxXg6Is0bp78IMMBN7i9aBoDVNdGZjAZZ7kZ9ebRFpWZLgSzWgoNynsUR6gRgPNS6C2bnr6kanp0O6MdSpRaPnE4UBd5vOC8eZjXUi9g9ITHEU7jrIbOobs4lk_OjV8Jxo.jLdiSK45c_C6a8kv5iBDcwW96Nnfj2EXWBUM5SnQCjM&dib_tag=se&keywords=Cudy+AC1300+WiFi+USB+3.0+Adapter+for+PC&qid=1738939304&sprefix=cudy+ac1300+wifi+usb+3.0+adapter+for+pc%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1

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[you@localhost ~]$ lspcidrake | grep -i net
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (rev: 09)


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[you@localhost ~]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 03f0:0d4a HP, Inc SK-2025 Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


Can someone help me? Thank you.

[doktor5000]

Hi there, have a look at https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=13536

[reltek]

Hello,

I am new to Mageia and not sure how to go about installing wifi dongle driver.

This is what I found out about my USB WIFI Dongle.

I executed USB command on the terminal:

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lsusb

and it says this for my adapter/dongle.

Bus 001 Device 040: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey]

So, it looks like I have download and install RTL88x2bu driver. So, could someone show me how I can download and install on the terminal?

Thank you.

[doktor5000]

Hi there, did you read the linked thread? Installation is not that complicated and outlined at https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu?tab ... the-driver
Either clone or download a .zip file from the github repository, then unpack that and run

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make

inside that directory.
Then as root run

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make install

to install the built kernel module.

You may need to install automake and kernel-devel package for your kernel if you don't have that installed.

[morgano]

Why do you run Mageia 8 and not 9?

[reltek]

Why do you run Mageia 8 and not 9?

Hello,

Well, that's what I installed couple of years ago and have started using it building and working on my programming projects. So, I have installed and configured bunch of compilers to do that with. So, upgrading 8 to 9 will break a lot of my setup I am pretty sure of it.

Besides, I have tested Mageia 9 and I think I found out that Mageia 9 doesn't support serial communication. Don't hold me on that, but is that true.

Thank you for your post.

[reltek]

Hi there, did you read the linked thread? Installation is not that complicated and outlined at https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu?tab ... the-driver
Either clone or download a .zip file from the github repository, then unpack that and run

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make

inside that directory.
Then as root run

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make install

to install the built kernel module.

You may need to install automake and kernel-devel package for your kernel if you don't have that installed.

Hi there,

So, downloaded the driver and tried to install as instructed and these are the errors I am getting.

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[mark@localhost rtl88x2bu-5.8.7.1_35809.20191129_COEX20191120-7777]$ make
make ARCH=x86_64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.15.25-desktop-1.mga8/build M=/home/mark/rtl88x2bu-5.8.7.1_35809.20191129_COEX20191120-7777  modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/5.15.25-desktop-1.mga8/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:2395: modules] Error 2
[mark@localhost rtl88x2bu-5.8.7.1_35809.20191129_COEX20191120-7777]$


I tried researching into this and I can't find anything on this. Any help will be appreciated.

[doktor5000]

You may need to install automake and kernel-devel package for your kernel if you don't have that installed.