[elrepo] USB wireless adapter not working (4.15)

[Phil Perry]

On 17/03/18 10:18, Nick Howitt wrote:
> That was a bit unfair to blame wpa_supplicant. It would be nice if 
> Realtek could release an nl80211 compatible driver rather than one for 
> the deprecated wext driver.
> 
> On 17/03/2018 09:45, Nick Howitt wrote:
>>
>> Possible link: 
>> http://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/getting-realtek-8188eu-wireless-adapters-to-work-in-linux-and-possibly-other-wireless-realtek-chipsets. 
>> The issue appears to be wpa_supplicant. Google "r8188eu wpa_supplicant"
>>
>> Nick
>>

For anyone venturing down this route, I note the nux-desktop repo has 
the wicd packages :-)