Debian Netgear (RTL8187)

[geeday]

I didn't want to post another message about Wifi adapters, but I'm struggling (i've spent 2 days googling)!!

First off, I get most success when only the Wifi dongle is connected (no keyboard or mouse). Once plugged in the dongles blue LED does flash away quite happily. I tested the dongle on a windows box and it does work.

lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]
(is the B in RTL8187B significant?)

iwconfig returns wlan0 in the list of adapters (so I'm assuming the driver is installed?? when a mouse/keyboard is plugged in, I don't get wlan0 in my list!)

I set the channel that my AP is on

sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel 11

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

I then hope to go to:

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

and see a list of wifi networks around my house, but I get:

"wlan0     No scan results"

I added a few "bits" in to: /etc/network/interfaces as per other forum suggestions, but it made no difference.

I'm powering the Pi off an Apple 3 pins to USB which supplies 5.13volts, but I can't find its current rating.

I've placed the dongle in various distances from the AP.

I hope I'm missing other settings, but I have no clue as to which ones.

thanks in advance.

[fulburncams]

Yes a lot of us have had problems,  try searching the Troubleshooting forum for 'wifi' or 'wireless' and there are many recent posts on this.  There seem to a number of problem areas :-  firmware , debian patch,  USB Hubs and power feed to the adapter when attached directly.  Try these links

http://www.ctrl-alt-del.cc/201.....s-ada.html

http://www.raspberrypi.org/for.....-up-driver

http://www.raspberrypi.org/for.....ing/page-2

Good luck

Steve

[geeday]

thanks for response, guess I should have expected "search the forum". I searched specifically for my chipset, and didn't think the solution would be as drastic as it is.

will give it a go today.

thanks again.

[geeday]

Do we think with an updated Debian distribution, the existing drivers will work (I'm not confident in taking drivers from github and updating) or will the drivers need re-compiling too? I'd expect that once drivers are compiled for ARM, then they are compiled?

I don't really know.

thanks

[geezbeez]

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# modprobe -l | grep 8187
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko
root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# dmesg | grep -i rtl
ieee80211 phy0: hwaddr 00:1b:2f:cb:fa:c7, RTL8187BvE V0 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2
rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x00
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::radio
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
rtl8187: wireless switch is on
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# time iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results


real 0m2.460s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.010s

Hmm

still a problem ???

[stockbroker]

HELP
I also have netgear w111v3 adapter but when I connect to my pi I dont even gat the blue light to flash.
if I do lsusb I cant see the device. I am running squeeze.
Can anyone help me get up and running? I connect the Ethernet cable and no problem.

If you could send instructions via this post or email to marshallvance@yahoo.co.uk I would be grateful.

Thanks

Marshall

[stockbroker]

I think your problem ( i am only guessing) might be a power problem.
I had problems with power when I used a 500Ma power supply. The keys on my keyboard kept repeating, then I noticed that the netgear w111v2/3 requies 500Ma of power see here http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl8187
so at a guess it might be that when you plug in your keyboard / mouse along with the adapter you do not have enough power to use all devices. As I said this is only a guess.
you could also look here: this highlights keyboard / mouse / usb issues.

regard
Marshall

[stockbroker]

sorry I missed this link for you
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... iFi_device

marshall

[t_o_b_e]

Hey,

Following up here 'cause I recently had the exact same situation. What geezbeez is seeing is low power which I had with the WG111v3 even when using a 2A supply.

If lsusb and/or dmesg are showing that the dongle is being detected but 'sudo iwlist wlan0 scan' shows no networks then this is the likely cause. I switched to a powered hub and started working just fine.

If you want to keep it neat and use a dongle that doesn't require a powered hub then many of the newer nano size dongle seem to work. The Edimax EW-7811Un works out of the box plugged directly into the RPI USB port for me (using a Nexus 7 power supply).

BTW.. I found this page to be most useful when setting up WiFi the most straightforward and works fine for me (Raspbian): http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-ras ... cidentalis

Good luck..

[xtian170174]

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-ra ... cidentalis
I just used the link on an otherwise unresponsive WG111v3 Netgear dongle that I'm trying to configure to get the Pi away from the eth wired router connection, I typed the shorter [not hidden SSID] and I'm now tightvnc viewing it just getting the resolution right, then taking it somewhere else for flatbed scanning jobs using 32-bit hardware on 64-bit systems.