I'm trying to get an Airlink 101 AWLL6075 working in Debian 2.6.32-5-kirkwood running on a Seagate Dockstar.

It appears to be seen at bootup...

dmesg outputs:

25.110813] usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 3
[ 25.223022] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8172
[ 25.229933] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 25.237292] usb 1-1.1: Product: RTL8188S WLAN Adapter
[ 25.242489] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
[ 25.248000] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
[ 25.254115] usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

and

lsusb outputs:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191S WLAN Adapter

My attempts to install the driver and firmware for it haven't yeilded any success. The dmesg doesn't indicate that it can't find the firmware nor does it seem to be initializing the driver in the first place. I don't know if I'm interpreting the log wrong or what. I don't know why the adapter is showing up as RTL8191S and RTL8188S or if that matters.

If anyone could shed some light on what I need to do to get the adapter working I'd appreciate it. Scouring google for answers has only found people with different problems.

AFAIK, both, the RTL8191S and RTL8188S (should use the same driver), are not supported with Debian's 2.6.32-5 kernel. I think there are two solutions:
1. Get the driver from Realtek and install it on your machine.
2. Compile a recent kernel, I think you should be fine with a 2.6.36 or 37.

I downloaded the driver from Realtek's website and tried to compile it earlier today. The dockstar started slowing to a crawl and the dmesg log contained a make error saying that there wasn't enough memory. I'll see if I can figure out how to compile a more recent kernel.

Thanks for the quick reply!