Hello! I am trying howto install the TL-WN725n v2 WiFi dongle from TP-Link on openSUSE 12.3.It has the Realtek RTL8818EU chip. Any suggestions?
Hi,
Please open a terminal window and do
lsusb
,copy and paste the output here, between CODE tags (the # in the editor).
Bus 001 Device 018: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
This may have the in formation wanted, but please, when people ask you to do something, do so, or explain why you do not want to or can not do what they ask for.
You are asked for a complete lsusb output and between CODE tags.
Complete means: the prompt, the command, the output, the next prompt.
And the CODE tags are explained above. As you did not say you didn’t undertstand, or find it, why don’t you use them?
I post this in the hope that the discussion in this post will be more fruitfull for you and all the others who might try to help you.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:081b Logitech, Inc. Webcam C310
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc. LX710 Cordless Desktop Laser
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
That device is not yet supported in any kernel on openSUSE. To get a driver for it, you will need to build one yourself. You get code that will build on any kernel using the command
git clone http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git
The command will download the code into a new directory named rtl8188eu. You will then need to be able to compile an out-of-kernel driver.
This driver will be in the 3.12 kernel. For 3.12-rc1 and later (not yet released), the device recognition will be automatic.
Good to know Larry 
I’ve just purchased one of these tiny devices for our family’s desktop computer (currently only running Windows).
Thank you for the quick response…I’ll try for now no manually install the module using the github repo!