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gugeldot23º

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Registered: 2021-01-04

Posts: 1

Arch Linux Panda PAU06 wifi USB dongle not detected

Lastly I've installed by second time Arch Linux on another laptop (Asus UX305UA) I wanted to use my wifi dongle (PANDA PAU06) for putting it in monitor mode.

Firstly it didn't worked so I did what I did the other time, install "usbutils". But this time it didn't worked.

I searched at the linux driver installation but its intended for Fedora so even if I tried it it didn't worked. http://www.pandawireless.com/download/P … _v1.0s.pdf

After that I read that by installing "firmware-ralink" it would work but I only found it to be installed in Debian, after that I tried to install that .deb file with "debtap" a script made for installing deb packages for arch. But I showed me an error indicating that those packages couldn't be "transformed"

This is the package that included "firmware-ralink" : https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fir … e/download

I don't know what else to do, this is the output for "lsusb"

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:57cb Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

One thing I've notieced is that when pluggin it to the old laptop it showed the usb dongle as "ralink" with the command "lsusb":

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 148f:5372 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5372 Wireless Adapter

So I tried searching for installing something related to "RT5372". I read this post that said by installing wireless_tools it would work and that in lsmod the module "rt2x00usb" will appear. https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q … arch-linux

Even though in the old laptop showed it with the command "lsmod | grep rt"

t2800usb              28672  0
rt2x00usb              28672  1 rt2800usb
rtl8xxxu              143360  0
ofpart                 20480  0
rt2800lib             139264  1 rt2800usb
cmdlinepart            16384  0
mtd                    81920  6 spi_nor,cmdlinepart,intel_spi,ofpart
rtsx_usb_ms            24576  0
rt2x00lib              90112  3 rt2800usb,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
memstick               24576  1 rtsx_usb_ms
rtsx_usb_sdmmc         32768  0
btrtl                  24576  1 btusb
bluetooth             741376  33 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm
mac80211             1052672  4 rt2x00lib,rtl8xxxu,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
cfg80211              913408  3 rt2x00lib,mac80211,rtl8xxxu
rtsx_usb               32768  2 rtsx_usb_sdmmc,rtsx_usb_ms
agpgart                53248  2 intel_gtt,drm
mmc_core              188416  4 sdhci,rtsx_usb_sdmmc,cqhci,sdhci_pci

In this new laptop "lsmod | grep rt" only shows:

iTCO_vendor_support    16384  1 iTCO_wdt
btrtl                  24576  1 btusb
bluetooth             741376  33 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm
agpgart                53248  2 intel_gtt,drm

To conclude I just don't know that else to try and I will provide any log or info for trying to solve this.

Lastly Something I've noticed is that I could put inside laptop wifi board in monitor mode, could it be used if nothing could be left to try? I have found it's the " 802.11a/b/g/n" but I haven't found anything it could be used like that.

Thanks in advance and hope it can be solved.

PD: I tried searching everything in the AUR packages but nothing

ezacaria

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Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 113

Re: Arch Linux Panda PAU06 wifi USB dongle not detected

This PAU06 is supposed to have the RT5372 chipset, and the old machine showing the rt2800usb module makes sense. I believe that this should be supported in the standard kernel that Arch provides.

Do you have the linux-firmware package installed in the new machine? Please have a look at the wireless installation section of the wiki.