Hi i have the airlink wifi usb AWLL6075 chip. I have tried several different steps online in order to get it working but i can’t. I am running opensuse 11.4 kde.
I believe it either has chipset RTL8188su or RTL8192su
Ok, so i clicked on the yast2 hardware information
it finds RTL8188S wireless adapter (wlan1)
and it says its using kernel driver r812u
under the drivers part of it it says driver is active and modprobe is yes
yet on the networkmanagement, it doesn’t really show if there is a wifi and wireless is shown as disabled (and thats kind of greyed out - doesnt let me click on enable)
On 03/13/2011 03:06 PM, caf4926 wrote:
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> 32 or 64 no matter
>
> try:
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> sudo /sbin/modprobe -v r812u
>
> make sure your wireless switch is ON
The driver is r8712u, not r812u.
Yes, it works with 64-bit systems. I submitted that driver to the staging
directory, and I have both 64- and 32-bit systems for testing.
Does ‘dmesg | grep firmware’ show anything? There is a switch from firmware
embedded in the driver to firmware in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi, and I’m not sure if
that change propagated to openSUSE’s kernel yet. If the firmware is missing,
install the kernel-firmware package. While you are installing stuff, also
install the rfkill package. You can then test the switches with
‘/usr/sbin/rfkill list’.
so i tried the first command with proper driver and it just goes to next line, doesnt say anything. The dmsg also does not say anything. I installed the two packages you said to install, but i don’t know what you mean on how i can see if its swicthes?
On 03/13/2011 06:36 PM, sportsallstars wrote:
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> so i tried the first command with proper driver and it just goes to
> next line, doesnt say anything. The dmsg also does not say anything. I
> installed the two packages you said to install, but i don’t know what
> you mean on how i can see if its swicthes?
>
> it still doesnt work so far
It says nothing because the driver is already loaded.
Read the stickies and follow the advice given there. I don’t deal with “it still
doesn’t work” as I know the driver works.
however it does seem like my firmware is installed, but the card will just not be allowed to turn on
when i run sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
the wlan1 for this card shows no scan results and card cannot turn on until kde networkmanager allows me to enable wireless (which it doesnt, it is not even letting me. i’m not sure if the networkmanager even reckognizes card)
On 03/14/2011 03:36 PM, sportsallstars wrote:
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> ok so i think you said i have driver but not firmware
That is not exactly what I said, but close enough.
> but i went to the file and i have no clue how to tell if i have my
> firmware and what type i may need?
>
> Here’s part of the file copy and pasted - ignore any atheros wifi
> stuff because thats an internal wifi that is BROKEN.
>
<6> 1.973482] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda,
> idProduct=8172
The device with USB ID 0bda:8172 uses r8712u as the driver. I just checked
again, and the version that uses external firmware will be in kernel 2.6.38.
On 03/14/2011 05:36 PM, sportsallstars wrote:
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> shub@linux-ufzd:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan1 unassociated Nickname:“rtl_wifi”
> Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Sensitivity:0/0
>
> Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> shub@linux-ufzd:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
> root’s password:
> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
>
> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
>
> wlan1 No scan results
No scan results means that there is a driver problem.
You seem to have missed something from dmesg. Please post the output of
dmesg | grep r8712
If your device needed firmware, it would be found in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi, not
in /lib/firmware, but as I said earlier, the firmware is still built in…