How do I get a realtek wifi dongle to work

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022, 01:37 Bret Busby, <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have a computer with a wifi dongle.
>
> It shows as being a Realtek 802.11ac.
>
> I have searched on the World Wide Web, and have consequently, installed
> multiple Realtek drivers, from the 22.04 repository, and, from the kali
> linux repository, that are supposed to get the dongle working, but, none
> of them have. I have had to download then to a USB thumb drive on one
> computer, transfer the drive to the target computer, and, install the
> driver from that, in each attempt.
>
> Because the installation iso's do not include needed networking drivers,
> I cannot use the computer upon which, I am attempting installation, to
> connect to the Internet, to find applicable drivers, and, whilst lsusb
> finds the device, it is unusable, because I cannot install a driver for
> it, from the iso, or, from the searches that I have done.
>
> So, how do I get this USB wifi dongle working, to connect to the
> Internet, so I can find and download its driver?
>

Plug the dongle into the computer that is connected to the internet and get
it working there first. Then you will know what driver you need.

Colin




> It is unfortunate that the iso's contain applications software, but, not
> the network device drivers needed to complete an installation.
>
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