USB WiFi Adapter Drivers for Raspberry Pi

[Soham1080p]

I wanted to make a Wireless Access Point out of my Raspberry Pi which would encrypt all my data requests into the Tor Network. But I am finding it very hard to get a compatible USB WiFi Adapter.

Now I got this Adapter with a RTL8188EUS chipset (that's what the driver files said, not any properties), but it does not install into Raspbian. This adapter works out-of-the-box with RaspBMC (the XBMC distro for Raspberry Pi), but needs manual driver installation on Raspbian.

The CD that I got with the WiFi Adapter had a folder called Linux, which contained a zip file. On exploring the zip file, I found a folder called driver which contained a .tar.gz file.

Now I tried following the other help pages online, but the part called './configure' gave an error output, and 'make' and 'sudo make install' also gave similar outputs.

Can anyone give me a set of commands to run so I can install these drivers?

 

[emdea22]

Make sure you install the prerequisites. Have no clue what they might be or what linux version is Rasbian based off. You should try to search for other network drivers install tutorials and maybe you'll figure out what you need to install first.

 

[stillblue]

The error output being what?

 

[wolverine96]

Which version of Linux, and which USB Wi-fi adapter?

 

[Soham1080p]

The error outputs were that it could not find a directory.
It is a Comfast 150N USB WiFi Adapter, but has a RTL8188EUS chipset.

Raspbian is based on Debian Wheezy, if that helps.

 

[skittle]

You need to compile this driver and install the firmware.
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu

wheezy firmware package does not contain this driver. Switch/upgrade to newer jessie and it will probably magically work.
as you can see driver is not listed in wheezy, but is in jessie.
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/firmware-realtek
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-realtek

 

[Alabalcho]

You need couple of packages installed in order to be able to compile the driver. It would be much easier if you got a known-to-have-drivers-included WiFi adapter, though...

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essentials gcc

Start with that, and post the output of your ./configure and make commands on e.g. pastebin

 

[Ijack]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6256

In general you'll get much better support for the Pi on those forums rather than Tom's, where few people actually use Pis.