problem with extra wifi dongle

[jzlcrux]

Currently I am working with a robot project, it requires me to use a more powerful wifi dongle. So I got one, installed the driver, and the wifi dongle is not powered on when I boot it, I have to detatch it and plug it in again, then pi can reconize it, how can I solve this?
And also how can I disable the onboard wifi ---- wlan0, and just use wlan1 (my wifi dongle)?

I am using rapsberry pi 3, and the wifi dongle is RTL 8191SU

[ktb]

Please provide us with more information. Which WiFi dongle? Which chipset does it have? It probably doesn't matter, but which Pi model are you using? Be specific, it will help us to help you.

Run:

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lsusb

and show us the output.

You might want to try something hacky like the following in /etc/rc.local:

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# load 8812au wifi driver module
modprobe -r 8812au
sleep 2
modprobe 8812au rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0 rtw_hwpwrp_detect=0 rtw_ips_mode=0
exit 0

Note: That is for a WiFi dongle I have. I'm guessing you have a different one which may require a different driver.

[DirkS]

You can disable the onboard wifi by adding a line to /boot/config.txt:

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dtoverlay=pi3-disable-wifi

[jzlcrux]

Please provide us with more information. Which WiFi dongle? Which chipset does it have? It probably doesn't matter, but which Pi model are you using? Be specific, it will help us to help you.

Run:

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lsusb

and show us the output.

You might want to try something hacky like the following in /etc/rc.local:

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# load 8812au wifi driver module
modprobe -r 8812au
sleep 2
modprobe 8812au rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0 rtw_hwpwrp_detect=0 rtw_ips_mode=0
exit 0

Note: That is for a WiFi dongle I have. I'm guessing you have a different one which may require a different driver.

I am using Raspberry pi 3, and the wifi dongle is RTL 8191SU.
I use lsusb commands after booting, it reconize the wifi dongle, but there is no wlan1 at the wifi panel.

[DirkS]

What drivers did you install? If they are from the manufacturer they're probably not compatible with the Pi.
What exactly is the output of lsusb?

[ktb]

Yea, +2 to what DirkS said^. Please show us the output, don't just tell us.

Please provide the output of the following commands as well.

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apt-cache policy firmware-realtek

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lsmod

Based on some quick searches, getting your dongle working might not be easy for a beginner. I'm not sure. It sounds like r8712u should be the correct module.
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Debian_8_.22Jessie.22

r8712u (supported devices)

Supports USB devices based on the RTL8188SU, RTL8191SU and RTL8192SU chips.

Debian 8 "Jessie"

This release supports Realtek RTL8188CE, RTL8188CUS, RTL8188DE, RTL8188EE, RTL8188ETV, RTL8188EU, RTL8188SU, RTL8191SE, RTL8191SU, RTL8192CE, RTL8192CU, RTL8192DE, RTL8192E, RTL8192EE, RTL8192SE, RTL8192SU, RTL8192U, RTL8723AE, RTL8723AU, RTL8723BE, RTL8812AE and RTL8821AE-based devices.

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rs/rtl819x
https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su

[jzlcrux]

What drivers did you install? If they are from the manufacturer they're probably not compatible with the Pi.
What exactly is the output of lsusb?

the chipset is RTL 8191SU

[ktb]

Thank you.

That looks pretty good to me.

Can we see the output of dmesg too?

I suggest trying something like I suggested earlier.

How about you run the following commands and post the output?

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ifconfig -a
sudo modprobe -r r8712u
sudo modprobe r8712u
ifconfig -a
dmesg

Does the dongle have an activity/status light on it? Does it show any activity after running those commands?

EDIT: added sudo, sorry.

[jzlcrux]

Thank you.

That looks pretty good to me.

Can we see the output of dmesg too?

I suggest trying something like I suggested earlier.

How about you run the following commands and post the output?

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ifconfig -a
sudo modprobe -r r8712u
sudo modprobe r8712u
ifconfig -a
dmesg

Does the dongle have an activity/status light on it? Does it show any activity after running those commands?

EDIT: added sudo, sorry.

thank you for your suggestion, however, the code is not working. and the dmesg commands has a loads of output, I only screenshot the last part of the output.
The status light is not on during the entire process. And the wifi dongle seems completely dead after pi is rebooted, i have to unplug it manually and plug it in again to activate it, then it works perfectly fine. So I assume that you want me to run the code when wifi dongle is dead?

[ktb]

It doesn't look like you entered the exact commands I provided. You got the name of the module wrong and you added an extra hyphen character for some reason.

Try again?

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ifconfig -a
sudo modprobe -r r8712u
sudo modprobe r8712u
ifconfig -a
dmesg

The reason I'm having you do this is that at least for one of my dongles when used with the Pi3B, I have to wait until the system has finished booting, remove the module and then load it again to get it to work.

Note: power management should be disabled by default when using the r8712u module.

[MrEngman]

Interesting line about 6 from the end of the dmesg output. Are you trying to use udev to set the wifi name?

If you don't want to use the inbuilt broadcom wifi I would suggest disabling it. Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac.conf and add the single line blacklist brcmfmac, reboot and then see what happens.



MrEngman

[davef]

Show us what you have in /lib/firmware/ and /lib/firmware/realtek

[davef]

r8712u is the same driver that I was using for the ASUS N10.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175596869/

was the solution that I was given. It was easier to buy another WiFi dongle