Wireless Woes

My latest home tech purchase is a TP-Link 300Mbps Mini wireless N USB Adapter. This was intended to replace the cable I have to run every time I want to connect my server to the internet (my home wired network not working very well and involves lifting floorboards to fix).

Purchased from Maplin for £10 it looked ideal as it supported Linux. However… it supports Ubuntu, not Centos. And even for Ubuntu you need to *compile* the driver into the kernel! But that’s ok because that’s what we sign up to for Linux.

Centos is a problem though. Unless I am missing something, there seems to be no native driver for the RTL8192CU chipset and none in the elRepo repository I added for Centos 7.

Compiling the driver for Centos sounds like a bunch of work and I’m surprised no-one has done it already. I will have to do a bit more digging and maybe add it to the list of things to do.