how to get TL-WN725N wifi dongle working?

[kortschak]

I have look through the issue and found what comes close to a recommendation for the TP-Link TL-WN725N wifi dongle, and so got one.

I have not been able to get it to work out of the box. Is there a set of instructions (other than the dkms instruction on the X page - it looks from some of the issues that it is built into recent kernels, though I may be reading wrong - building on an ev3 seems like a pathway to pain).

I'm using the 3.16.7-ckt26-10-ev3dev-ev3 kernel and lsusb gives the following:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

In brickman the Wi-Fi screen just says 'Not available' and the command line approach leads me to this:

$ sudo connmanctl
connmanctl> enable wifi
Error wifi: Method "SetProperty" with signature "sv" on interface "net.connman.Technology" doesn't exist

which doesn't look promising.

[kortschak]

Found solution (needed the module package installed). In this case (found by apt-cache search 8188eu):

apt-get install rtl8188eu-modules-3.16.7-ckt26-10-ev3dev-ev3
modprobe 8188eu

The rest follows.

[dlech]

This package should be automatically installed by the linux-image-ev3dev-ev3 meta package. If it was not, there is a bug.

[kortschak]

That makes sense. When I installed the kernel I used the kernel package directly instead of thr meta package (see [here](#610 (comment)) and following comments)) and did not install the meta package afterwards. So no bug in the package. I'll install it to keep up to date. Thanks.