11/4/2022 0 Comments Edimax wireless dongle driver![]() ![]() #Edimax wireless dongle driver driver#I unpacked the sources and changed the driver Makefile as follow to enable the cross-compilation for the beagleboard: The other alternative was using the driver sources from Realtek website : RTL819xCU_USB_linux_v3.3.1_3083.zip The link association with the AP failed (it get associated once or two times), so I didn’t want to spend much time debugging this driver because it really sucks ! ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ifup wlan0 rtl8192c: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 Loading now the built-in wi-fi driver gave me the modprobe rtl8192cu I also edited the network interfaces file ( /etc/network/interfaces) to add: ![]() I installed wpa_supplicant via opkg and edited the config file to match my AP parameters cat /etc/wpa_nf I rebuild the kernel enabling the RTL8192 driver (via make menuconfig) and copied the Firmware required by the driver into /lib/firmware/rtlwifi (on the Beagleboard SD card ls /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/ Google it gave that it’s a Realtek based chipset and supported in Linux Kernel (I’m using a 3.0.7 Kernel) in the RTL8192CU driver. Here a small guide how I’ve got it lsusb | grep Belkinīus 001 Device 004: ID 050d:1102 Belkin Components ![]() However it does not work out of the Box with Linux/BeagleBoard. ![]()
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