How does one check the version? Is there a command i can run in the line, cuz i bought the same TL WN722N, but am not sure if its v1 or v2. Would it just be safe to return it and just buy one that i know will work? I had the page saved where it went through the setup of the wireless adapter for the kali Pi build to get it ready for packet injections etc., but cannot seem to find it now.
AFAIK there are only Windows drivers for that device (Windows XP to 8), and a Linux driver for that Atheros radio that will work.
If i could get a point in the right direction that would be awesome. Still a newbie but i really wanna get a hang of this. It took me few days to finally made this driver works for my Kali 4.14 distro.
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The reason for this is that because Kali has also come with it own driver for this v2 adaptor and somehow the kernel keep picking up the wrong driver to use. In the end, I had manually removed every single realtek driver in the /lib/firmware as well as in /lib/modules/ directories. Here is how I did it. I use the commend $locate 8188. and $locate rtl.
in the /lib and /usr/src directories and deleted every realtek related ko files and bin files manually. I also removed the firmware realtek package in the system using sudo apt remove firmwarerealtek I also make sure after rebooting the system and replugging the adapter, Kali would not be able to connect the adapter at all. I use 'lshw' to check if the the adapter is still connected or not. Then I followed the instruction above and compiled and installed the driver. And it finally worked.
I rebooted the system and replugged the adapter and it still working. Since I am running on VMWare Player, so had also removed the driver from the Windows as well, just in case.