Rtl8111e Linux Driver Download

4 min readJul 23, 2021

NOTE: This branch is based on Realtek’s driver versioned 4.4.1. master is based on 4.3.1.1 originally.

The official drivers for D-Link DWA-131 Rev E, with patches to keep it working on newer kernels.Also works on Rosewill RNX-N180UBE v2 N300 Wireless Adapter and TP-Link TL-WN821N V6.

How To get your Realtek RTL8111/RTL8168 working. Download the driver. Select the “LINUX driver for kernel 3.x and 2.6.x and 2.4.x” for download. Rtl8192eu-linux-driver — Drivers for the rtl8192eu chipset for wireless adapters. Direct download link for Linux drivers GitHub will not link to the ftp:// schema.

NOTE: This is just a ‘mirror’. I have no knowledge about this code or how it works. Expect no support from me or any contributors here. I just think GitHub is a nicer way of keeping track of this than random forum posts and precompiled binaries being sent by email. I don’t want someone else to have to spend 5 days of googling and compiling with random patches until it works.

Source for the official drivers

Official drivers were downloaded from D-Link Australia. D-Link USA and the european countries I checked only lists revision A and B. Australia lists all three.

Direct download link for Linux drivers
GitHub will not link to the ftp:// schema. Raw link contents:
ftp://files.dlink.com.au/products/DWA-131/REV_E/Drivers/DWA-131_Linux_driver_v4.3.1.1.zip

In addition, you can find the contents of this version in the initial commit of this repo: 1387cf623d54bc2caec533e72ee18ef3b6a1db29

Patches

You can see the applied patches, their sources and/or motivation by looking at the commits. The master branch will mostly be kept clean with a single commit per patch, except for Pull Requests. You can review commit by commit and then record the SHA in order to get a safe reference to use. As long as the SHA stays the same you know that what you get has been reviewed by you.

Note that updates to this README will show up as separate commits. I will not mix changes to this file with changes to the code in case you want to mirror this without the README.

Building and installing using DKMS

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This tree supports Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS), a system forgenerating kernel modules from out-of-tree kernel sources. It can be used toinstall/uninstall kernel modules, and the module will be automatically rebuiltfrom source when the kernel is upgraded (for example using your package manager).

Install DKMS and other required tools

for normal Linux systems
for Raspberry Pi

Clone this repository and change your directory to cloned path.
The Makefile is preconfigured to handle most x86/PC versions. However, if you are compiling for something other than an intel x86 architecture, you need to first select the platform.

for the Raspberry Pi, you need to set the I386 to n and the ARM_RPI to y:
for arm64 devices (e.g. Orange Pi PC 2):

Add the driver to DKMS. This will copy the source to a system directory sothat it can used to rebuild the module on kernel upgrades.
Build and install the driver.
Distributions based on Debian & Ubuntu have RTL8XXXU driver present & running in kernelspace. To use our RTL8192EU driver, we need to blacklist RTL8XXXU.
Force RTL8192EU Driver to be active from boot.
Newer versions of Ubuntu has weird plugging/replugging issue (Check #94). This includes weird idling issues, To fix this:
Update changes to Grub & initramfs
Reboot system to load new changes from newly generated initramfs.
Check that your kernel has loaded the right module:

You should see the line driver=8192eu

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If you wish to uninstall the driver at a later point, usesudo dkms uninstall rtl8192eu/1.0. To completely remove the driver from DKMS usesudo dkms remove rtl8192eu/1.0 — all.

Submitting patches

Fork repo
Do your patch in a topic branch
Open a pull request on GH, or send it by email to Magnus Bergmark <magnus.bergmark@gmail.com>.
I’ll squash your commits when everything checks out and add it to master.

Copyright and licenses

The original code is copyrighted, but I don’t know by whom. The driver download does not contain license information; please open an issue if you are the copyright holder.

Most C files are licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.

Active7 years, 2 months ago

I just bought an ASUS P8H61-M LX motherboard. This motherboard comes with a Windows driver package to enable the onboard ethernet port. My troubles with this board are documented here and here. After installing Windows the LAN did not work either, but after installing the supplied driver disk in Windows the LAN was then enabled.

I have been googling for the Linux driver but cannot find it. I see that others have used this motherboard in Linux, so apparently it is possible. I wrote to ASUS but I do not expect a reply for 48–72 hours.

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dotancohendotancohen

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Your motherboard has a Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit Ethernet controller.

The driver built-into the Linux kernel should work, but if you wish to install the latest driver supplied by the manufacturer, you can get it here.

Open the downloaded file in Archive Manager, and extract it, e.g to the Downloads folder as shown below:
Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T, and change to that directory, e.g. cd Downloads/r8168-8.031.00
Type sudo ./autorun.sh and that should take care of removing the old driver and installing the new one.

ishish

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The driver can be found here as well as the answer as how to install it. The ASUS P8H61-M LX motherboard comes with the Realtek® 8111E , 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s) therefore the proper driver needs to be updated.

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The problem was the lack of drivers for this motherboard’s NIC. I expand on the problem more here.