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I have recently installed UBUNTU 12.04 but can not connect to the net as my wireless adapter has no drivers yet. I found some documentation on it, but I am such a noob I don’t know what to do with all this. The adapter is the Linux driver for tplink-wn725n nano wireless adapter

Is there anyone who could explain to me what I have to do with this information? ----https://github.com/liwei/rpi-rtl8188eu.

someone else in another thread mentioned to try:sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.6-precise-generic but I dont know how I can do that if my machine is offline. Can any of this stuff be downloaded on one machine and transfered with a USB disk?

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  • There exist [two](https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN725N_v1) [versions](https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN725N_v2) of this USB device. Could you post the output of `lsusb -d 0bda: -vvv` such that the device can get identified? (`0bda` is the vendor ID). – Lekensteyn Mar 15 '14 at 09:30
  • Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. – Kalamalka Kid Mar 15 '14 at 09:35
  • Right, then you have the [v2](https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN725N_v2) device and 81. I see a r8188eu staging driver in at least Ubuntu 14.04 (devel) which runs a 3.13 kernel. The linux-image-generic-lts-saucy package (3.11) does not have this driver. If you wish to update your whole kernel, try http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.13.6-trusty/ – Lekensteyn Mar 15 '14 at 09:48
  • Downloading and installing the drivers, their dependencies and dependencies of the dependencies will be _very_ difficult without connectivity. It can all be done in a few moments if you can beg or borrow an ethernet connection. – chili555 Mar 15 '14 at 14:11
  • OK so lets say I get this machine online, can somone please explain how I can get the drivers? One way is update Kernel. I am a BRAND new UBUNTU user, so im not sure what this means. I also know nothing of compiling. Please hold my hand im new! – Kalamalka Kid Mar 16 '14 at 01:53

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Install common wifi drivers and wicd network manager.

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree wicd wicd-gtk wicd-daemon

Then try to connect with wicd network manager.