Re: urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

On 2013/12/18 23:48, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 10:24:09AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> I got one of these (if_urtwn) and it works enough to download about a meg
>> or so before the watchdog kicks in and I have to ifconfig down/up it to
>> get it to respond again.
>>
>> I even have a patch pending to add the usb identifier for this.
> Same here; someone at $work bought couple of these teeny dongles.  I've
> applied small id patch (attached), and tried to use it (it reportedly
> works flawlessly under Linux using this [*] driver).  I could load the
> module, but MAC address was clearly bogus (00:00:30:34:43:30); yet I've
> created wlan0 just to find out that there is no list scan results, and
> wpa_supplicant(8) gives me this in an endless loop (GENERIC kernel, so
> I presume all wlan-related stuff should be in place):
>
>     Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
>     ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=103, val=0, arg_len=128]: Device not configured
>     wlan0: Failed to initiate AP scan
>
> This is on relatively fresh 11-CURRENT as of Oct 18th, i386.  Any clues?
> It would be nice to get more of these little guys to work, esp. there is
> working Linux driver available for reference.

Your usb wlan dongles use RTL8188EU chip which is currently not
supported by any of drivers.

>
> ./danfe
>
> [*] https://github.com/liwei/rpi-rtl8188eu

     Kevin