Realtek 8188gu Wireless Lan 80211n Usb Nic Driver

Not natively supported. No kernel driver = no OTG Wi-Fi adapter usage.

Before installing any driver, you must confirm that you indeed have a Realtek 8188GU. Here’s how: realtek 8188gu wireless lan 80211n usb nic driver

The most reliable open-source driver for the 8188GU is maintained by aircrack-ng (for monitor mode) or morrownr (for stable client mode). Below we cover morrownr’s 88x2bu driver – wait, that’s for a different chip. For 8188GU, use rtl8188gu driver by kelebek333 or brektrou. Not natively supported

Recommended driver repository:
https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188gu Before installing any driver, you must confirm that

The Realtek 8188GU has a troubled history on Linux. Realtek did not provide an open-source driver, and the staging driver (rtl8192u) does not support the 8188GU. For years, users resorted to ndiswrapper (using Windows drivers), which is unstable.

git clone https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188gu cd rtl8188gu make clean make sudo make install sudo modprobe -v 8188gu

To enable DKMS (auto-recompile after kernel updates):

sudo ./dkms-install.sh