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#1 2022-11-06 13:35

paamaa
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Registered: 2022-11-06
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Wifi dongle driver config wiped after applying system updates

I have limited experience of using Linux, so your advice would be appreciated.

I've added a D-Link wifi dongle to my machine and when I carry the instructions below it works very well until I use Update Manager to apply software updates. The updates appear to wipe the d-link dongle driver config and I have to apply it again. Is there a way to make the config stay in place when updates are applied?

That said I would recommend the DWA-181 if you need to add 5Ghz.

The Wifi dongle configuration instructions I used were ( they came from Ask Ubuntu):

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential

Next unzip the downloaded folder, and unzip the file in there, and there should be a folder called driver with a driver tarball, with the name rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.8.7.1_*.tar.gz, decompress in whatever fashion you see fit, I simply right clicked in dolphin and extracted, open the newly decompressed folder and open a terminal to this location.

Now run:

sudo make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe DWA_181

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