TPLINK WN823N with RTL8192eu on Linux/Ubuntu/PC Mint 18

I recently purchased TP-LINK WN823N Wifi Dongle for my desktop and found that the drivers for Linux  were not getting installed. I am using PC Mint 18 with all the latest updates patched. TP-Link's site had drivers for Linux but it was giving me some errors while compiling it for installation. After trying lot of things, I finally landed up on this site -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/731809/will-ubuntu-16-04-support-the-rtl8192eu-chipset-out-of-the-box 

Here one of user had provided one solution which worked for me, simply open the Terminal window and execute every line (note after 1st line you will be prompted to enter the administrator password). Basically, we need to reboot the system after these statements and the replug the dongle and viola! it worked for me :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtl8192eu-dkms 

reboot 

After reboot, replug the dongle. and it should work

Note that my dongle was using RTL8192EU chipset and this I was able to identify from the source files while I downloaded from TP Link site.


All the best!