USB Wifi Dongle

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Code:

$ sudo apt-get install realtek-firmware

This should work on a Debian system, and to be precise firmware-realtek is the name of the package according to this stackexchange post.
However since I'm running ubuntu xenial, adding non-free to the sources list didn't help, but this lines did the work:

Code:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms linux-firmware

Source


After that the dongle showed MAC Address, which was a huge step forward, but just clicking on the network and entering my network key didn't do the work. I went on and deleted the Ethernet connection and added the network manually and voila - I was on THE Internet.

It would be a huge help if this gets fixed soon, wifi network is a main feature which should work after a fresh sysem install.

Thanks for your help anyway, I hope my post helps others that encounter the same issue.