Newbie with Rpi2 WIFI issue

[englischdude]

Hi there Rpi Community!

I have recently purchased a Rpi2 to replace the ageing pc components in my arcade cabinet. I have installed the piplay beta 8 image and all is going well.

I have a noname dongle which is not being recognised by the pi at all, however when I use it on my linux mint laptop the lsusb command gives me an ID of IBDA:0179

with this information, could someone please support me to get this dongle working on the pi2.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Martin

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi there Rpi Community!

I have recently purchased a Rpi2 to replace the ageing pc components in my arcade cabinet. I have installed the piplay beta 8 image and all is going well.

I have a noname dongle which is not being recognised by the pi at all, however when I use it on my linux mint laptop the lsusb command gives me an ID of IBDA:0179

with this information, could someone please support me to get this dongle working on the pi2.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards
Martin

Should that not be OBDA:0179 ?? Then see:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 82#p462982

[englischdude]

many thanks.

have installed the driver, now when I type lsusb into the command line it recognises a "realtek semiconductor corp" device. i cant however seem to start wifi. when I type ifconfig wlan0 is NOT listed!

Any suggestions?

[englischdude]

SOLVED. went through the procedure once more of installing the driver, now with alot of fiddling with the interface and .conf file I have it running.

thanks for your help!