Problem WiFi adapter

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ulfh
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Problem WiFi adapter

Post by ulfh » Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:39 pm

I have not been using my Red Pitaya for some years now, but have tried to start from scratch again. I am now stuck with a wi-fi problem, since my adapter EDiMAX EW-7811UN is not recognized by the system, and I don't even know if it is supported or not. The adapter seems to use RTL8188CUS chipset, and it might look like the drivers are missing. From a terminal window I can se the following:

root@rp-f00b29:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:b811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@rp-f00b29:~# lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: eth0
serial: 00:26:32:f0:0b:29
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=macb duplex=full ip=169.254.225.7 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s

the lshw command hangs a few second displaying USB (and only that) befor it goes on and print what you see on the screen.

Is ther any way to make it work? I have tried running sudo apt update && sudo apt full upgrade -y but nothing chanced.

By the way, the ip address is totally wrong

Best regards

Ulf

ulfh
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Re: Problem WiFi adapter

Post by ulfh » Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:50 pm

Works directly on my Raspberry Pi 4

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Re: Problem WiFi adapter

Post by redpitaya » Fri Nov 05, 2021 10:31 am

Regarding the Wifi usb dongles, please note that the one included with our bundles have been tested and work fine.
Also we received reports that there is a new EDIMAX unit now EW-7811Un that has also a V2 in the name. This new dongle does seem to use a different driver and it is not compatible with the Red pitaya OS at the moment. We are working on it.

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