Wi-Fi Driver Issue: ZTopInc 802.11n NIC on Fedora

[youcef07x]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble getting my ZTopInc 802.11n NIC USB Wi-Fi adapter to work. Its device ID is ID 350b:9101. I'm running Fedora, and I need some help installing its driver.

I tried compiling the driver from a Realtek RTL8188EU repository (as this chipset is often a re-branded RTL8188EU), but I ran into the following error when trying to run make:

ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/linux/autoconf.h are missing.
Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
I've already made sure that I have the correct kernel-devel and kernel-headers installed, matching my current kernel version, using this command:
sudo dnf install -y kernel-devel-"$(uname -r)" kernel-headers-"$(uname -r)" make gcc dkms

Despite this, I still can't compile the driver successfully. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue with ZTopInc adapters or RTL8188EU chipsets on Fedora? Are there any known workarounds or modified drivers I could try?

Thanks a lot for any help!

 

[dos2unix]

The easier way

git clone https://github.com/ivanovborislav/rtl8188eu.git

cd rtl8188eu

sudo ./install.sh

You may to reboot and run...

iwconfig

sudo modprobe 8188eu

The harder way

#!/bin/bash

# Exit on any error
set -e

echo "Installing required packages..."
sudo dnf install -y dkms kernel-devel kernel-headers git gcc make

echo "Blacklisting default r8188eu driver if present..."
echo "blacklist r8188eu" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/realtek.conf
sudo modprobe -r r8188eu || true

echo "Cloning the RTL8188EU driver repository..."
git clone https://github.com/ivanovborislav/rtl8188eu.git
cd rtl8188eu

echo "Installing the driver..."
sudo ./install.sh

echo "Installation complete. Rebooting the system..."
sudo reboot

chmod +x install_rtl8188eu_fedora42.sh

(or whatever you named the file)

./install_rtl8188eu_fedora42.sh