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Install Wifi drivers Ubuntu

After updating Ubuntu, my wifi device was not working.

Follow these steps to install/enable wifi module in Ubuntu. If git is not installed, install it by apt.

 

$ sudo apt-get install git

 

To make the wifi device work, rtl8192eu module needs to be enabled in kernel.

 

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install git
$ git clone https://github.com/jeremyb31/rtl8192eu-linux-driver
$ cd rtl8192eu-linux-driver
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo modprobe 8192eu

 

You wireless device should now be working.

When a later kernel version is installed, after reboot, recompile the module again:

 

$ cd rtl8192eu-linux-driver
$ sudo make clean
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo modprobe 8192eu