Hi all,

I'm having a rough time getting the correct firmware/driver to recognize my TP-Link USB wireless adapter. The full model number is TL-WN725N Ver 2.0.

I'm running Debian 7 (Wheezy) kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64. Debian 3.2.41-2.

The TL-WN725N is apparently based on the Realtek wireless adapters. I've tried installing those drivers through compilation and by using apt-get.

However, the device is not shown in ifconfig. All I see are eth0 and lo.

When I attempt to use iw, I only see the following:

The device is recognized within lsusb:

I also updated all software sources to non-free in sources.list.

Any and all help appreciated.

Hi,

It seems there's a driver for this device here. (You can find instructions on how to compile it at the end of this link).

It's also a good idea to have a read at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2136140, since it's about the same device. Judging from the last link, ndiswrapper might be an option, in case the native Linux driver installation/compilation fails for some reason.

Hope this helps.

This my or may not be useful.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB
You may need to use the ath9k_htc driver.
jdk