Hi,

I had Manjaro installed on my desktop and I replaced it with Mageia 5 XFCE. I have a TP-LINK TL-WN823N wifi adapter on my desktop to connect to my Wireless network. I was able to install the updated driver for this Wifi adapter in Salix using the link https://sites.google.com/site/easyli...ject/reserve-7. The adapter is based on the realtek chipset RTL8192CU, which is a problematic chipset for many linux distros.

However, the instructions in the above site is not working under Mageia. When I run the command dkms add ./rtl8129cu-fixes, I get the message saying "dkms: Invalid number of arguments passed". I tried it as "dkms add -m rtl8192cu -v 1.10", but I still get an error message saying "does not exist /usr/src/linux/rtl8192cu-1.10".

I really wanted to Keep Mageia 5. It is fast and stable so far.

The full instructions to install the patched driver for my WiFi adapter is below.

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git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes ==> This is where I am getting error message.
sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.10
sudo depmod -a
sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
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Can some one help?

Thanks,
Balaji.

you want to keep Mageia,ok. But you can still sell adapter and buy linux compatible one. Otherwise it currently seems hopeless situation, but i would try changin desktop environment to other like KDE or switching network manager you are using, supposedly you are using latest upgrades.

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Hi...

I'm not sure if it will work for version 5, but do the slightly modified (I'm guessing) instructions here help?

Regards...