I am running Debian 7 under VMWare and want direct wifi connection. I have a USB wifi device plugged in and the relevant module (rtl8192cu) seems to be loaded (automatically). lsmod says the module is unused.
Code:
root@debian7:~# uname -a
Linux debian7 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@debian7:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
rtl8192cu 74897 0
rtlwifi 81393 1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common 52602 1 rtl8192cu
mac80211 192806 3 rtl8192c_common,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
cfg80211 137243 2 mac80211,rtlwifi
root@debian7:~# lsusb
...
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 20f4:648b TRENDnet TEW-648UBM 802.11n 150Mbps Micro Wireless N Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
Yet there is no wlan interface:
Code:
root@debian7:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:2e:d5:3e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.16.233.215/24 brd 172.16.233.255 scope global eth0
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe2e:d53e/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
root@debian7:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
How do I get the wlan interface to appear? I tried adding it to /etc/network/interfaces without success.
