how to install driver for TP Link WN722N (EU) V2 on Ubuntu 14.04
Hardware Information
Without driver for this hardware device, you cannot see the property of wireless usb device here.
$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2357:010c <= idVendor=2357, idProduct=010c
...
$ sudo lshw -C network
<= No information about such device
With driver, you will see notification light turning on and the following message:
$ lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2357:010c <= idVendor=2357, idProduct=010c
...
$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:8
logical name: wlan1
serial: d4:6e:0e:08:17:d0
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8188eu ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11gn
See more information for TP-LINK TL-WN722N v2
Install Kernel Module for TP Link WN722N (EU) V2
Make sure that you have install correct compile tool and kernel headers.
sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) git dkms
You could have two methods to compile source code of driver:
- clone driver repository
$ git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git
$ cd rtl8188eu
$ make all
$ sudo make install
$ sudo reboot
or
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8188eu
sudo dkms install 8188eu/1.0
sudo modprobe 8188eu
The following method is not working in my Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. Please try the first method.
- Download from website
$ wget http://static.tp-link.com/TL-WN722N\(EU\)_V2_161112_Linux.zip $ unzip TL-WN722N\(EU\)_V2_161112_Linux.zip $ cd rtl8188EUS_linux_v4.3.0.8_13968.20150417/ $ make all $ sudo make install $ sudo reboot
See more details in information webpage for TL-WN722N V2; And in the Driver tab of this information webpage, you could download source code of driver for TL-WN722N V2. I have provided the download link in the Reference section.
References
Source Code of Driver for TL-WN722N(EU) V2
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