Hello,
Up to today, I have been tethering my phone’s 3g connection for my BeagleBoard-xM but today my friend gave me a usb wifi dongle and decided to use it from now on. However even though I can see the attached device:
root@beagleboard:~# 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 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1737:0078 Linksys
root@beagleboard:~# dmesg
[ 343.905029] usb 2-2.2: new high speed USB device using ehci-omap and address 4
[ 344.057891] usb 2-2.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1737, idProduct=0078
[ 344.064880] usb 2-2.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 344.072265] usb 2-2.2: Product: Linksys RangePlus Wireless Network USB Adapter
[ 344.079528] usb 2-2.2: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys LLC
[ 344.810485] Restoring csi2 context
[ 344.867797] twl_rtc twl_rtc: rtc core: registered twl_rtc as rtc0
[ 346.177886] Saving csi2 context
[ 358.598968] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 358.603515] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 358.608062] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 358.614440] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 358.635070] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
[ 358.638793] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 358.658782] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
[ 358.770202] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 358.830932] irda_init()
[ 358.830993] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[ 358.851196] IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
[ 358.946472] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 358.951538] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 358.956695] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 374.076477] usb0: no IPv6 routers present
I cannot even search for the available wireless networks:
root@beagleboard:~# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
usb0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
There does not exist a wlan0 connection:
root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig -a
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:492 (492.0 b) TX bytes:492 (492.0 b)
usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FA:9D:F5:81:B0:C2
inet6 addr: fe80::f89d:f5ff:fe81:b0c2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:15906 (15.5 KiB)
I tried “ifconfig wlan0 up”:
root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: unknown interface: No such device
I do not understand that, if I can see the usb wifi dongle with dmesg, then there does not exist a driver problem, right? However if a driver problem does not exist, then I should have had a wlan0 connection which I do not have currently. So can my problem be related to a driver issue or is it about my connection settings? Should I do something to enable wireless connections?
Could you please help me? I would appreciate any kind of help efforts.
Regards,
Amadeus