Planex(rtl8192CU) usb wifi dongle trouble
Hello,
I've had a few posts about usb issues. I'm almost sorted out with them. The problem is I have a Planex(rtl8192CU) usb wifi dongle that I want to use as an access point on my Gentoo computer. I was able to get it working on OpenSuse. Noting that OpenSuse usually works out of the box for plug in devices I dont really understand the process of getting it to work. What I've done so far: 1. Installed the driver from their website. Said that everything installed correctly but I dont know if the modual is loaded or what the module name would be. At the end of Code:
make install 2. Got information from lspci: Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 Northbridge only dual slot PCI-e_GFX and HT3 K8 part 4. Got information from lsusb: Code:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub 5. When I modprobe rtl8192cu the terminal locks up. Now the problem is: the on light is not turning on which makes me suspect its not activating it. Maybe the module is not loading(how do I check that?). I think this may be my problem but don't know how to fix it. Can someone point me to the right direction? Is there a tutorial on setting up usb wifi access points? Thank you for the help |
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lsmod finds the module so its loaded.
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Module Size Used by Code:
[ 210.955594] cfg80211: exports duplicate symbol wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state (owned by kernel) |
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If it doesn't work, you should probably contact with the creator of the driver, they probably will have a mailing list of something like that. If the problem is in the driver, or if there's an incompatibility with your kernel version, I can't really be of much help here. |
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I tried the above and still no success. One thing I dont understand is that on OpenSuse, before I compile the drivers, I get a red light on the usb dongle. After I compile the drivers the light is green and the dongle works. When it had a red light it was unusable.(this is on the same pc) On Gentoo I get no lights at all at any time. No red light before compiling the usb dongle(its like I don't even insert it). That's why I keep thinking that I'm missing some kind of kernel option to activate usb devices. |
Assuming you are using the same port and that the port hasn't been affected lately by some electrical failure or something, what I'd do is to check for differences in the output of dmesg and lsmod in both distros. You can also try to use the suse kernel in Gentoo. Just copy it and don't forget to copy the matching /lib/modules/<whatever dir>, and add an entry for it in your grub configuration. You could also try to rescue the kernel config from suse, just boot suse and save /proc/config.gz, then use it to build your gentoo kernel and see what happens. This will have a better chance to suceed if you use similar kernel versions and update the config with "make oldconfig" in Gentoo, after copying the config to the relevant place.
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