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soulrainX

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Registered: 2013-03-20

Posts: 48

[SOLVED] Installing Alfa AWUS036H Wifi Adapter

So I checked out:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rtl8187_wireless

and apparently the AWUS036H works out the box with the RTL8187 driver.

So the wifi usb adapter is pluged in. When I

lsusb

I get

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter

So I follow the wiki's directions:

# modprobe rtl8187

# dmesg | grep rtl8187

My output is

[    4.507272] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0xFF
[    4.507879] rtl8187: wireless switch is on
[    4.507924] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

So when I do:

ifconfig

I still don't see wlan0 or wmaster0 and doing:

# ip link set dev wlan0 up

Doesn'st seem to help. Since I apparently already have the proper driver and it is showing up as a usb device, I am somewhat at a loss.

If anyone has any insight it would be greatly appreaciated.

Last edited by soulrainX (2013-04-10 02:12:15)

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soulrainX

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Registered: 2013-03-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Alfa AWUS036H Wifi Adapter

ok so just ran:

dmesg | tail -20

and the output was:

*snippet*
[ 3023.766670] ieee80211 phy1: hwaddr 00:c0:ca:54:1a:47, RTL8187vB (default) V1 + rtl8225z2, rfkill mask 2
[ 3023.780126] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0xFF
[ 3023.780589] rtl8187: wireless switch is on
[b] [ 3023.788516] systemd-udevd[769]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp0s26f7u5u1[/b]

so the last line is why I was not seeing wlan0....

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Alfa AWUS036H Wifi Adapter

So, is it solved?

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soulrainX

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Alfa AWUS036H Wifi Adapter

ya I guess Nice T.A.R.D.I.S

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Alfa AWUS036H Wifi Adapter

Nice T.A.R.D.I.S

Thank you.

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