I had quite a hassle to bring my TP-link WiFi with r8188eus chip working on my Ubuntu desktop as an AP, while most tutorials only shows how to do that on raspberry pi. Here I am going to show you how it is done.
My PC:
Linux 5.0.0-27-generic #28~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 22 03:00:32 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
1. Go to /etc/modprobe.d create blacklist for r8188eu (the one shipped by default)
1.1 rmmod r8188eu
2. Download https://github.com/quickreflex/rtl8188eus/ and follow the steps
3. insmod 8188eu (what you just make install)
4. Now, we can use Networkmanager for wifi-hotspots, on Ubuntu or other desktop os.
