Realtek RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter

I've just installed Backtrack on my Vmware.
I need to install a driver to my wlan adapter because backtrack doesn't support this driver.
I have downloaded the driver and placed it on the desktop.

I'm very new to the Linux enviroment so I hope you can give me a newbie guide to installing a driver from the command prompt.
I've tried to locate a step-by-step guide in the read me file but I can't find anything.

The driver is named:

rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401.tar.gz

I've tried to post in the backtrack forum without any luck.

Best regards:
Magnus

02 Dec 11

This site has most of the information you need: www.linuxwireless.org

In any case, this file is a compressed tar archive. You need to decompress it and then run the configuration and/or installation scripts - usually using the 'make' command. Example (assuming the file is on your desktop):



tar -zxvf rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20110401

cd rtl*

./configure

make

# if you are not root, then switch to root or try sudo

make install

Then reboot your system.

03 Dec 11

Thank you very much for your support.
I get an error because there isn't a folder called configure so I can't install the driver.

These are the folders located in the driver:

I will also look at the website you linked to.

Thank you kind sir (:

23 Dec 11

Make sure the gcc compiler is installed to compile the package.

#whereis gcc

If you don't have it, install it using your package manager.

23 Dec 11

Hi zubmit,

Where did you get the driver package from?

I grabbed it from over on the Realtek site and it has a ton of documentation on the install. An entire documents directory and a huge readme.txt in the directory showing actually more than I expected.

I would recommend re downloading it from the official site and reading through the included documentation.

-MM

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