Hi! Some general question + Wifi USB Realtek RTL8191S

[matzi]

Sorry, no difference

[fvdw]

seems we are at the same point were msa-lacie stopped, driver loaded but still not visible in ifconfig or iwconfig :thinking

[fvdw]

did you dongle came with a CD, that might have (linux) drivers on it ?

[matzi]

yes there is a CD...

[fvdw]

thanks, I look at those file but thats a no go in combination with linux-3.9.5
I think we have a driver bug here maybe a more recent kernel contains a fix.

[fvdw]

looking to the kernel code the chance that we have the wrong driver is not high, the device is clearly listed
Probably we need to find the right firmware file.

Additionally I found some info how to adapt the source coude of the driver as on your cd. maybe it will compile then

so still there is hope :-D

[matzi]

Just an experience:
I gave this dongle try on my raspberry pi. The pi is running linux 3.6. At first try no success. Almost the same situation as on the lacie. Shown in dmesg, but not visible for ifconfig. Then I searched the net for a special .bin file for this. Found, installed, running! Tried the file on lacie - no success. At least it shows were on the right track.

[fvdw]

I am made progress in compiling the driver from source downloaded from realtek site
with some patching :whistle

[fvdw]

:punk think I managed to compile the native driver for RTL8192S from realtek for linux-3.9.5
Now I need to adapt the kernel so we can load it as module

In the meantime I also manged to get the ralink (rt73usb) based dongle working on wpa2.
with wpa_supplicant it connects and with udhcpc I can get an ip address also visible when lease is obtained form the router without any other setting (so no "route" commands) Also disconnecting the fixed lan cable on eth0 leaves the connection working
So in principle there is no reason why other dongles should not run, we only need a proper driver

example output rt73usb wlan dongle

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root@nwsp2-5:/ # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 wlan0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0

root@nwsp2-5:/ #

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root@nwsp2-5:/ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:4B:91:17:22
          inet addr:192.168.1.147  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:4bff:fe91:1722/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:53749 (52.4 KiB)  TX bytes:112702 (110.0 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:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:33215 (32.4 KiB)  TX bytes:33215 (32.4 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:78:9D:C9:F5
          inet addr:192.168.1.166  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:78ff:fe9d:c9f5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:494 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:77796 (75.9 KiB)  TX bytes:2390 (2.3 KiB)

root@nwsp2-5:/ #

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root@nwsp2-5:/ # iwconfig
ipddp0    no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

tunl0     no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"xxxx"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432 GHz  Access Point: 00:24:01:28:AC:5D
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=44/70  Signal level=-66 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:749   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.


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[fvdw]

@matzi
pm sent with a new kernel and driver