Getting wifi dongle D-Link DWA-123 to work

[sepul]

Trying to get D-Link DWA-123 wifi dongle work, but no luck so far. (r8188eu)

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$ uname -r
3.14.4-1-ARCH
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$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
11: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether c4:a8:1d:f3:cb:68 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
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$ sudo iw dev wlan0 info
command failed: No such device (-19)
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$ lsmod | grep 8188
r8188eu 739433 0
usbcore 187240 6 uhci_hcd,usb_storage,r8188eu,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid
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$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 2001:3310 D-Link Corp.
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$ sudo lshw -C network
*-usb
description: Wireless interface
product: DWA-123 11n Adapter
vendor: Realtek
physical id: 5
bus info: usb@1:5
logical name: wlan0
version: 0.00
serial: C4A81DF3CB68
capabilities: usb-2.00 ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8188eu maxpower=500mA multicast=yes speed=480Mbit/s wireless=unassociated
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$ dmesg | tail
[10075.540577] usbcore: deregistering interface driver r8188eu
[10075.962797] R8188EU: ERROR indicate disassoc
[10076.092362] usb 1-1.3: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[10087.504201] r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[10087.506818] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0)
[10087.569339] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8188eu
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Very frustrating, I have bought 3 different wifi dongles and none of them work on my PC arch or on Raspberry Arch

[moonman]

Try dkms-8188eu package and blacklist "rtlwifi". It is supposed to be the same driver as the in-tree one, but who knows - it might work.