WiFi Dongle not work

Using MOD devices Troubleshooting
#1

I’m following the instruction on the following link:
WiFi - MOD Wiki (moddevices.com)
When running systemctl restart wpa-supplicant-wlan0 dhcpcd-wlan0
I got:
A dependency job for dhcpcd-wlan0.service failed. See ‘journalctl -xe’ for details.
A dependency job for wpa-supplicant-wlan0.service failed. See ‘journalctl -xe’ for details.

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#2

This is still an experimental feature, but maybe @falkTX has a clue on what may be happening.

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#3

This would be a nice feature to get working. I have a WiFi dongle that works with my Linux desktop, but doesn’t work on the Dwarf.

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#4

Hi,
What do you have when you ask journalctl -xe ?
Which version of the OS do you use ?
Which dongle ?

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#5

This is from my Ubuntu 22.04 (kernel 5.15) the Dwarf is missing the RTL8188 module that this needs:

Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.881283] usb 1-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179, bcdDevice= 0.00
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.881304] usb 1-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.881314] usb 1-3.1: Product: 802.11n NIC
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.881321] usb 1-3.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.881328] usb 1-3.1: SerialNumber: 00E04C0001
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.883905] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0)
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH NetworkManager[665]: [1668957265.1845] wifi-wext: (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x3F).
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH NetworkManager[665]: [1668957265.1846] wifi-wext: (wlan0): using WEXT for Wi-Fi device control
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH NetworkManager[665]: [1668957265.1854] manager: (wlan0): new 802.11 Wi-Fi device (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/42)
Nov 20 07:14:25 bob-NUC8i7BEH kernel: [6294334.906275] EEPROM ID = 0x8129

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#6

Hi @looperlative
Did you put the rtl8188efw.bin (and/or rtl8188eufw.bin and/oror rtl8188fufw.bin) file in the /data/firmware/rtlwifi/ folder ?

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