D-link wireless not detected

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Tue Dec 29 09:51:12 UTC 2015


On 12/29/15 10:42, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>
>> On 29 Dec 2015, at 11:33, Vladimir Botka <vbotka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Danny,
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:16:27 +0200
>> Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> I have a working tp-link usb (realtek), but can’t get a d-link(also realtek) to work.
>>> usbconfig:
>>> 	ugen0.4: <Wireless N Nano USB Adapter Realtek> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
>>> This is on a raspberry pi running a resent current.
>>> cheers & season greetings,
>>> 	danny
>>
>> I've added freebsd-wireless list.
>>
>> My 2 cents. It might be helpful to see more details about the adapters.
>> For example:
>>
>> # usbconfig -u 0 -a 7 dump_device_desc
>> ugen0.7: <802.11 n WLAN Ralink> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
>> (480Mbps) pwr=ON (450mA)
>>   bLength = 0x0012
>>   bDescriptorType = 0x0001
>>   bcdUSB = 0x0200
>>   bDeviceClass = 0x0000  <Probed by interface class>
>>   bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
>>   bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
>>   bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
>>   idVendor = 0x148f
>>   idProduct = 0x5370
>>   bcdDevice = 0x0101
>>   iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Ralink>
>>   iProduct = 0x0002  <802.11 n WLAN>
>>   iSerialNumber = 0x0003  <1.0>
>>   bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
>
>
> so here it is:
> root@:~ # usbconfig -u 0 -a 4 dump_device_desc
> ugen0.4: <Wireless N Nano USB Adapter Realtek> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
>
>    bLength = 0x0012
>    bDescriptorType = 0x0001
>    bcdUSB = 0x0210
>    bDeviceClass = 0x0000  <Probed by interface class>
>    bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
>    bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
>    bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
>    idVendor = 0x2001
>    idProduct = 0x3319
>    bcdDevice = 0x0200
>    iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Realtek>
>    iProduct = 0x0002  <Wireless N Nano USB Adapter>
>    iSerialNumber = 0x0003  <00e04c000001>
>    bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
>
> thanks,
> 	danny
>

Did you google the idVendor and idProduct values and see if Linux has a 
driver already?

--HPS



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