rtl8188eus

Wifi driver support for rtl8188eu, rtl8188eus and rtl8188etv chips and working under the new linux kernel (5.1.x). More information about your wifi device can be found here: https://wikidevi.com.

Compiling & Building

Dependencies

To compile the driver, you need to have make and a compiler installed. In addition, you must have the kernel headers installed. If you do not understand what this means, consult your distro. if compile a new kernel, you will need to set two parameters with make: KSRC=path_to_kernel_source and KVER=kernel_version. The same goes for installation.

Download

git clone -b v5.2.2.4 https://github.com/quickreflex/rtl8188eus.git
cd rtl8188eu

Compiling & Installing

make all
make install

Or with DKMS

dkms add .
dkms build 8188eu/1.0
dkms install 8188eu/1.0

Switch modes

Supported interface modes

* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* monitor
* P2P-client
* P2P-GO

For setting interface modes

ifconfig wlan0 down
iw dev wlan0 set type managed
ifconfig wlan0 up

For setting TX power

iw wlan0 set txpower fixed 1300