Need help installing rtl8192SU LFS7.2
 

I just finished Lfs 7.2 moving on to Blfs.
Build on amd-64 no physical access to router.
I have a usb wireless device model DWA-132 by dlink the device works fine in Debian squeeze & wheezy. In Wheezy I had to install libiw & copied the rtl8192su driver into /lib/firmware. I haven't seen any documentation in Blfs that addresses usb-wireless networking.
I was looking at kernel-config there's an option for support for rtl8192 but not for the rtl8192su

Edit
I'm going to recompile kernel as I see if the rtl8192cu driver will work.

I recompiled with the rtl8192cu driver still getting

Hi eddy

I presume you have installed wireless tools from blfs and created the file /etc/sysconfig/wlan to start with

Yes but since you brought it up, I looked at it & I belive I set up wrong it's listed as ifconfig.wlan0 Ithink it should've been iwconfig.wlan0.

Being that this a usb device & no other connection available are there any other steps that I have to take, I've already installed usb-utils & wireless-tools

I am looking, as i dont have the usb device not much help with drivers,etc

The driver you have used did you build it as a module ?

It's built into kernel, not as a module.

Hi

What is the output of when you attach device

You are probably long gone from the subject of this thread. But anyway, there is a driver for that chipset amongst the staging drivers of the 3.7.0 kernel. Probably worth a try.

Attachment 11586

Other stuff on that Debian page in the screenshot mention firmware. For Debian it is provided by a .deb package. Your Debian systems probably have it and can supply it by simple copying. I would identify the firmware files needed by the driver and duplicate its exact sub-folder in the LFS /lib/firmware folder. You may have done this already. In your first post you said you copied the "driver" to /lib/firmware. Of course you probably meant firmware, and maybe you copied appropriate firmware to a proper sub-folder.

IMO, just getting a USB wireless adapter to work in LFS is not special. At least it wasn't for me. It was just the usual driver and firmware issues already mentioned, a rule for wlan0 in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, a proper ifconfig file (yes, it really IS ifconfig.wlan0, not "iwconfig.wlan0"), and proper wpa_supplicant.config file and commands. Especially so if the wireless device is sort of permanently attached (my situation). The network init script (via a call to ifup) reads ifconfig.wlan0 at boot and brings up the interface, and a wpa_supplicant command in $HOME/.bash_profile negotiates and establishes a connection. But if you intend hot-plug and unplug it, then other methods may be needed (I didn't need to bother).

Not long gone from subject but on back burner for a while, just started working a lot of hours & helping friends with their computers.

Hey stoat I still haven't abanoned project will get back to it nexy week, although I will start by getting ethernet connction first, need a 50ft cord, for some reason ir"s harder to get a usb wireless running than a regular wireless card.