Compiling Tenda U6 wifi driver (rtl8192eu)

[omikron]

Hello,
Here is the manual to compile Realtek modules for Raspbian kernel. It will work for other chipsets too, if you have the driver source for it.
And the same strategy also works with crazycat's media build for rare USB DVB dongles.

Install some needed packages

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sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev build-essential bc git wget

Install rpi-source script

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sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notro/rpi-source/master/rpi-source -O /usr/bin/rpi-source && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-source && /usr/bin/rpi-source -q --tag-update

Question: is rpi-source available by apt-get too?

Run it

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rpi-source

This will download the sources of currently used kernel from the internet. This step needs the fast connection and several hundreds of MB of free space. It also makes some symlinks needed and builds the database of module dependencies.

Get the driver source you need, here it is rtl8192eu

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git clone https://github.com/Mange/rtl8192eu-linux-driver.git

Now you need to set the correct architecture in Makefile

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cd rtl8192eu-linux-driver/
nano Makefile

in CONFIG_PLATFORM section, set all platforms to n
but ARM_RPI to y

Build

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make

This needs some time and fresh air to CPU, asi it becomes warm.

If no errors, install the new module

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sudo make install

and reboot...

Question:

After this procedure, the wifi works, iwlist wlan0 scan lists all ap's nearby. But the system does not manage the connection. If I configure it by hand, it works, but it does not conncect to networks in /etc/wpa_supplicant/ automatically. Older Tenda dongle supported by kernel does, but this newly compiled does not.
How can I make it to work automatically, like older supported wifi dongles?

[marklister]

Suggest you search the forums for Mr Engman's self updating script.