Hello,
This is my first post here, so I hope it's in the right place etc.
I know I'm resurrecting an ancient thread, but it is very visible in Google when looking for "RTL8188CUS puppy" and the like so I think it's a good place to post it in hopes that it may help others.
I wanted to get an RTL8188CUS going under Wary 5.3.9, kernel 2.6.32.59. The above posts worked like a champ. Specifically:
1. Downloaded devx and kernel sources. Kernel sources were hard to find for this version of Wary, in the end I found them here:
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/sfs/
2. Downloaded and installed sfs_load to load the above two files - worked flawlessly.
3. Downloaded the driver source from
http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downlo ... loads=true and unzipped it somewhere handy.
4. Enetered the driver directory in the console, performed chmod +x on install.h and gave it a go. Make thows an error. cd'ed into the driver directory and ran "make" and "make install". No errors.
5. Plugged in my wifi adapter and used the simple network setup to connect to the network. WPA/WPA2 working fine. Used "ifconfig eth0 down" to drop my wired connection to make doubly sure it was all good. I am using the adapter to post this message now.
Thanks to all above for your clear directions - I hope my contribution is also useful.