Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

Re: [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

dummy@example.com (sysv_penguin) — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:44:59 +0000

🎉 Thank you so much for helping me. After upgrading that package, the dongle is working as expected.

TLDR, for users who might stumble upon this:

1. Enable backports by adding the backports repo to the file (For me it was there i just uncommented it): /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Install newer version of the Linux kernel from the backports repo: sudo apt install linux-image-amd64/daedalus-backports
3. Upgrade Realtek packages: sudo apt install -t daedalus-backports firmware-realtek
4. Reboot your system.

Re: [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

dummy@example.com (sysv_penguin) — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:24:15 +0000

rolfie wrote:

I don't know how new this adapter is. The firmware is from 2023, two years old. In any case installing the backports firmware is worth a try.

Linux kernel 6.2 was officially released on February19,2023 according to chatgpt. I'll give it a shot

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

Does the command
# modprobe rtl8xxxu
change anything?

It returned nothing and inxi is the same. So probably it did nothing.

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

How did you install Devuan? Which release are you using?

I installed Devuan from desktop-live ISOs.

Re: [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:18:13 +0000

Does the command

# modprobe rtl8xxxu

change anything?

The module is available and obviously the model is recognised but apparently there's some automagic udev step that is broken for you.

How did you install Devuan? Which release are you using?

Re: [SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:29:02 +0000

I don't know how new this adapter is. The firmware is from 2023, two years old. In any case installing the backports firmware is worth a try.

[SOLVED] rtl8188ftv

dummy@example.com (sysv_penguin) — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:24:12 +0000

Hello, I'm currently testing Devuan on my machine. everything is fine except my WiFi dongle. The RTL8188FTV/FU has been supported by the Linux kernel since 6.2.
I enabled backports and upgraded my kernel to 6.12. but nothing changed. Note that on the same machine, Ubuntu and any other distro with a recent kernel brings up the WiFi device, Devuan is the exception here.🙁

~$ inxi -N
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter type: USB
    driver: N/A

on ubuntu 25 the output of inxi -N for my usb device is rtl8xxxu or something like that....

kernel version:

~$ uname -r
6.12.43+deb12-amd64

~$ apt list --installed | grep realtek

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

firmware-realtek/stable,now 20230210-5 all [installed]

maybe I should fetch this firmware from backports? IDK.

Regards.