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Getting rtl8188eu and rtl8192 to work

Prepare environment

First we need to install a suitable build environment

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Install 8188eu driver and hostapd

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git
cd rtl8188eu
make
sudo make install
cd hostapd-0.8
cp defconfig .config
make
sudo make install

Install 8192cu driver

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/wlan-stick-524440/3/#Realtek-rtl8192cu-s-Treiber-fuer-12-04-4-12-04-5-und-14-04-fuer-Kernel-3-11-und-3-13

git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes
sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.9

apt-get source hostapd sudo apt-get build-dep hostapd git clone https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv.git cd wpa-1.0

patch -Np1 -i ../hostapd-rtl871xdrv/rtlxdrv.patch cp ../hostapd-rtl871xdrv/driver_rt* src/drivers/ cp ../hostapd-rtl871xdrv/.config hostapd/