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Old 11-18-2011, 02:15 PM   #1
hua
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WN-370USB wireless adapter


It looks like I made an unlucky choice with my new Wireless adapter Ovislink Airlive WN-370USB. It just doesn't come up.
There are confusing information about the driver module for it on the "google". All that I found out about it is this:

OS and HW specification:
Slackware64-current - kernel 2.6.38.7

Airlive WN-370USB:
New USB device found, idVendor=1b75, idProduct=8171
New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Product: AirLive WN-370USB Adapter
Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

I find this possible drivers for my device:
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/OvisLink_WN-370USB

The windows driver contain these files net8192su.inf and rtl8192su.sys.

I tried to load the next modules but nothing changes
Code:
modprobe r8112u
modprobe rtl8192cu
Is there something more to be done after this or it just means that it won't work (if I cannot see wlan0 device after the modprobe with ifconfig -a)

Last edited by hua; 11-18-2011 at 02:20 PM.
 
Old 11-19-2011, 12:45 PM   #2
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Check the logs for the error messages - make sure no other driver modules are being loaded that are blocking. You may also need firmware.
You could try using NDISwrapper. I used to use it for a Phillips adapter successfully. It wraps the Windows driver so GNU/Linux can use it. Bit of a cop-out but it does work (well, it did for me ,anyway)

Last edited by andywebsdale; 11-19-2011 at 01:02 PM.
 
  


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