unable to install wifi drivers from rtlwifi_new git repo

Question

When I tried installing git from clone it's asking for username & password

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git
Cloning into 'rtlwifi_new'...
Username for 'https://github.com':

please help


shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ rfkill list
shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ 
shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ 
shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ uname -a
Linux shdpjjc-System-Product-Name 4.13.0-36-generic #40~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 23:26:51 UTC 2018 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A3;

below command gives blank


rfkill list 
lspci -knn | grep Net -A3


Below solution resolved my problem

I was able to resolve the issue after following this post in https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062402/cant-find-wifi-drivers-for-0bdaf179-realtek-semiconductor-corp


The concern was we were using 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp which requires specific drivers.

Thanks Everyone for the Help :)

Please [edit] your question and add more information. What OS you are using, what is your wireless device, why are you thinking you need Realtek drivers? — Pilot6, Jul 27 '20 at 17:01
Please [edit] your question and add output of `lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list; umane -a` terminal command. — Pilot6, Jul 27 '20 at 17:11
Are you using a USB adapter? You don't have any PCI wireless devices. There is no reason to install `rtlwifi` at all. You didn't explain why you are trying to install it. — Pilot6, Jul 28 '20 at 14:15
I was able to resolve the issue after following this post in https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062402/cant-find-wifi-drivers-for-0bdaf179-realtek-semiconductor-corp The concern was we were using 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp which requires specific drivers. Thanks Everyone for the Help :) — Graduate, Jul 29 '20 at 14:06

Pilot6 · Answer 1 · 2020-07-27T17:15:02.607

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The https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git has been removed.

Use https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git instead.

To install them run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git
sudo dkms add ./rtw88
sudo dkms install rtlwifi-new/0.6

edited Jul 27 '20 at 17:15

answered Jul 27 '20 at 16:13

Pilot6

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bash: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git: No such file or directory – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 16:40
What do you mean? You need to clone it. – Pilot6 Jul 27 '20 at 16:41
i'm not tech savy this is an old desktop so thought of getting hand on linux – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 16:58
i tried this & the reply on terminal was ~/rtw88$ git checkout extended error: pathspec 'extended' did not match any file(s) known to git – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 16:59
if you can help – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:00
Please add more information to your question. There is no `extended` branch there. – Pilot6 Jul 27 '20 at 17:01
shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88.git fatal: destination path 'rtw88' already exists and is not an empty directory. shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~$ cd rtw88 shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~/rtw88$ git checkout extended error: pathspec 'extended' did not match any file(s) known to git. shdpjjc@shdpjjc-System-Product-Name:~/rtw88$ – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:04
i'm using windows 7 – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:04
Why would you need Linux drivers for Windows 7? PLEASE EDIT YOUR QUESTION and explain what are you doing. WHY are you running these commands? What are you trying to achieve? – Pilot6 Jul 27 '20 at 17:06
i've installed ubuntu on windows 7 – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:07
You can't install ubuntu on Windows 7. Please stop posting comments. I give up till you edit your question. – Pilot6 Jul 27 '20 at 17:08
i've installed it & running on dual boot – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:09
okie if you want i'll edit my question but i've installed ubuntu 18.04 on windows 7 – Graduate Jul 27 '20 at 17:10
Anyone, please can help me here, still struggling. – Graduate Jul 28 '20 at 14:12

unable to install wifi drivers from rtlwifi_new git repo

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