I’ve been following this tutorial but I’m stopped at iwconfig because wlan0 doesn’t exist.
debian@ebb:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Linux ebb 4.19.94-ti-r68 #1buster SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 16 15:32:31 UTC 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux
I don’t see anything in /dev/ that suggests the USB device has even been discovered.
But there is this in DMESG
[ 2.815556] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using musb-hdrc
[ 2.916283] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0b05, idProduct=17d2, bcdDevice= 0.00
[ 2.916301] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.916308] usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11n NIC
[ 2.916315] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2.916322] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 123456
What’s the next step to get wireless working?
Thanks
John
@RobertCNelson
I wouldn’t even know where to start editing their makefile. That would be like handing me a Romanian/English dictionary and telling me to write an essay with good grammar in Romanian.
Instead I followed the steps in the morrownr link and took the risk to ignore the Raspi stuff. Quite a while later it was done recompiling the kernel (I think).
Now i have after a reboot:
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debian@ebb:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
usb1 no wireless extensions.
can1 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 unassociated Nickname:“WIFI@RTL8812AU”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz 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
usb0 no wireless extensions.
can0 no wireless extensions.
So it’s now been discovered. Time to figure out how to set the WLAN parameters so it can be discovered and issued an IP #.