USB Wifi RTL888S

Holger Seitter
Hello,

I have an USB-Wifi Dongle with an Realtek RTL 8188S chip.

I am running the FriendlyARM 2.6.38 kernel running on the Mini 6410. Which
is the right module for this dongle and how to get the wlan0 device?

greetings

Holger

jhlim
Hi Holger 

I did try it with RTL8192CU like you

I got a driver source from realtek 

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid...


# insmod 8192cu.ko
[   26.500000] rtl8192cu driver version=v4.0.2_9000.20130911
[   26.500000] build time: Jan 18 2016 16:18:46
[   26.510000]
[   26.510000] usb_endpoint_descriptor(0):
[   26.510000] bLength=7
[   26.510000] bDescriptorType=5
[   26.520000] bEndpointAddress=81
[   26.520000] wMaxPacketSize=200
[   26.520000] bInterval=0
[   26.530000] RT_usb_endpoint_is_bulk_in = 1
[   26.530000]
[   26.530000] usb_endpoint_descriptor(1):
[   26.540000] bLength=7
[   26.540000] bDescriptorType=5
[   26.550000] bEndpointAddress=2
[   26.550000] wMaxPacketSize=200
[   26.550000] bInterval=0
[   26.550000] RT_usb_endpoint_is_bulk_out = 2
[   26.560000]
[   26.560000] usb_endpoint_descriptor(2):
[   26.560000] bLength=7
[   26.570000] bDescriptorType=5
[   26.570000] bEndpointAddress=3
[   26.570000] wMaxPacketSize=200
[   26.580000] bInterval=0
[   26.580000] RT_usb_endpoint_is_bulk_out = 3
[   26.580000]
[   26.580000] usb_endpoint_descriptor(3):
[   26.590000] bLength=7
[   26.590000] bDescriptorType=5
[   26.590000] bEndpointAddress=84
[   26.600000] wMaxPacketSize=40
[   26.600000] bInterval=1
[   26.600000] RT_usb_endpoint_is_int_in = 4, Interval = 1
[   26.610000] nr_endpoint=4, in_num=2, out_num=2
[   26.610000]
[   26.610000] USB_SPEED_HIGH
[   26.610000] CHIP TYPE: RTL8188C_8192C
[   26.620000] register rtw_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[   26.620000] Chip Version ID: VERSION_NORMAL_TSMC_CHIP_88C.
[   26.630000] RF_Type is 3!!
[   26.630000] EEPROM type is E-FUSE
[   26.640000] ====> ReadAdapterInfo8192C
[   26.640000] Boot from EFUSE, Autoload OK !
[   26.780000] EEPROMVID = 0x0bda
[   26.780000] EEPROMPID = 0x8176
[   26.780000] EEPROMCustomerID : 0x00
[   26.790000] EEPROMSubCustomerID: 0x00
[   26.790000] RT_CustomerID: 0x00
[   26.790000] _ReadMACAddress MAC Address from EFUSE = 90:9f:33:ec:f5:93
[   26.800000] EEPROMRegulatory = 0x0
[   26.800000] _ReadBoardType(0)
[   26.810000] BT Coexistance = disable
[   26.810000] mlmepriv.ChannelPlan = 0x02
[   26.810000] _ReadPSSetting...bHWPwrPindetect(0)-bHWPowerdown(0)
,bSupportRemo
teWakeup(0)
[   26.820000] ### PS params=>  power_mgnt(1),usbss_enable(0) ###
[   26.830000] ### AntDivCfg(0)
[   26.830000] readAdapterInfo_8192CU(): REPLACEMENT = 1
[   26.840000] <==== ReadAdapterInfo8192C in 200 ms
[   26.840000] rtw_macaddr_cfg MAC Address  = 90:9f:33:ec:f5:93
[   26.850000] bDriverStopped:1, bSurpriseRemoved:0, bup:0,
hw_init_completed:0
[   26.870000] _rtw_drv_register_netdev, MAC Address (if1) =
90:9f:33:ec:f5:93