Hi! Some general question + Wifi USB Realtek RTL8191S

[fvdw]

:scratch

will look at this this evening must be setup issue or missing dev node or so. Driver is loaded and availaible so no reason why it shouldn't work

[Msa-lacie]

I don't know...

Tomorrow I go to south america for some month... We can verify this problem only after I return...

Thanks a lot for the support!

;)

[fvdw]

no problem. I think the remaining problem is that we need to to put the rtl8712u.bin in the directory /lib/firmware/rtlwifi

I will upload it in a minute if I can find it on the internet, its not in the linux kernel

[fvdw]

well here it is

put in the system directoy /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
How ?
unpack the zip archive in the shared folder of your nas with name "public"
connect via SSH server with putty

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mkdir /lib/firmware
mkdir /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
cp /share/1000/public/rtl8712u.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
chmod 755  /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin


rtl8712u.zip

if this still doesn't work then there is still the option to compile this firmware file into the kernel

[matzi]

Following this thread a question arises:
Is there usb wifi dongle type that is generically supported? I would be lucky to get one and test it.

[fvdw]

unforunate not, there are many, most of them are based on realtek and ralink chips, but there are differences, also manfactur id en product id used in usb detection plays its role

for instace have a look here as an example for one driver..http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/R8712U.html

[matzi]

OK, I gave my Wifi dongle a try, it is a logilinkWL0084B, based on Ralink RT5370.(dongle is ona 4 port usb hub) .

The chapter of dmesg reads:


12.978977] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using orion-ehci
[ 13.157788] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=148f, idProduct=5370
[ 13.168875] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 13.175993] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
[ 13.188910] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 13.192919] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 1.0

then:

root@fvdwsl-base:/ # iwconfig
-sh: iwconfig: not found

and:

root@fvdwsl-base:/ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:4B:91:71:FF
inet addr:192.168.178.2 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:4bff:fe91:71ff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1869 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:189001 (184.5 KiB) TX bytes:391326 (382.1 KiB)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:26913 (26.2 KiB) TX bytes:26913 (26.2 KiB)


What to do next to make it run?

[fvdw]

can you also post a screen shot of the info given in the web interface of the windwo Attached device->usb devices

That will show us if a driver is loaded. If that is not loaded we need to add the driver of this dongle to it and install a small firmware file (possibly)

[matzi]

You mean this?:
This time I connected the dongle directly to the NWSP2, not using 4 port USB Hub.

T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 1
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=1d6b ProdID=0002 Rev=03.09
S: Manufacturer=Linux 3.9.5 ehci_hcd
S: Product=Marvell Orion EHCI
S: SerialNumber=orion-ehci.0
C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub

T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=148f ProdID=5370 Rev=01.01
S: Manufacturer=Ralink
S: Product=802.11 n WLAN
S: SerialNumber=1.0
C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=450mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 7 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 7 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)

[fvdw]

yes i mean that output, device recognized but no driver loaded so need to find which kernel module to be compiled. I will look at it