Just got this laptop Windows 8.1 which has an internal wifi RTL8188EE driver/adapter. Metal objects/distance appear to be preventing me from access so put an RTL8192CU driver on an extension line. This brought about a Blue screen stating that Windows had loaded erroneously and was correcting and was going to reboot. This then replicated. I tried disabling the internal adapter but no improvement there. Unplugged external adapter and all is well after enabling the internal.
Uninstalled RTL8192CU driver.
Now when I plug in the external adapter all is OK and I have "2" listings of local routers one list has my router.
1) Is the RTL8188EE able to use the external EDUP N-8508 adapter ?? It does get a list which includes my router. It tries to connect but my signal is not real strong. It fails to connect after lengthy effort.
2) Is there a way to get this working besides a better location of the external adapter?
3) The RTL8192CU adapter came with the device but gets located elsewhere by the super wizard of windoz than the internal driver.
Also am not able to disable the 8192 adapter via the windoz standard process.
Would like to get this working on Windoz before trying it on Slackware with/without RTL8192CU.

I think thereś a bit of reading to do.

I downloaded a driver for the 8188 for the raspberry pi. I found several 8188/8192 drivers in the śtaging'drivers section of the kernel. These are here because they are dodgy. Worth having a look.