Bought this USB wireless NIC but didn’t realize v3 was on the market and only for about the past month or so…
Cannot use NDISWRAPPER for intended specific purpose.
A Google search reveals at least one unrequited SOL user in the Ubuntu forums…
I can’t even find out what chipset is in this thing, doesn’t seem to be published anywhere (is there a utility that interrogates USB NICs?)
So, looking for suggestions before I give up on this device, BTW here is the typical reports, people might notice that the VendorID/ProdID doesn’t return much info on the Internet.
Is there a way to force try the driver for v2 of this NIC? I’m not familiar with a procedure that doesn’t require some level of device recognition.
TIA,
Tony
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 009: ID 0b05:1791 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
dmesg
1562.648193] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
1562.765778] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0b05, idProduct=1791
1562.765787] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
1562.765795] usb 2-2: Product: ASUS WL-167G V3
1562.765800] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
1562.765806] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
2480.692216] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
2480.753229] hub 4-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
2483.801196] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
2483.915204] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
2484.134354] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
2487.690561] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
2487.805199] usb 1-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71
2488.020584] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
ASUS WL-167G
Driver : rt73 (older version rt2570)
Chipset : rt2571WF (older verson Ralink 2570)
Notice : Range is moderate but both monitor mode and injection work perfectly. Injects IV’s at a very slow rate (about 300-500 IV’s per minute), taking about 35 hours to collect 1,000,000 IV’s.
Update : Injection is faster under bt4 beta (300-400pps). Just need to ifconfig wlan0 up to use it.
I’m afraid that information doesn’t seem to be relevant to to v3. If that info was from offensive-security, the info likely applies to the v1 and v2 although whoever the author was didn’t specify. Since v3 seems to have added new features, my guess is that the chipset may have changed again.
On 02/03/2011 07:36 PM, rodhuffaker wrote:
>
> This NIC works out of the box now, at least on openSUSE 11.4 Milestone
> 6.
> WL-167G V3
> 0b05:1791 ASUSTek Computer, Inc
> Manufacturer Realtek
USB ID 0b05:1791 uses the r8712u driver found in kernel 2.6.37 and later, at
least until we get a proper mac80211-based code for it. Then it will likely be
rtl8192su.
That driver works very well on both 32- and 64-bit systems. The only thing it
cannot do is master mode, i.e. no AP’s based on it.