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YHHH

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[SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

my usb wireless card(MW310UH -> rtl8192fn) can't use in install iso environment
i use "ip link" command but it just show a loop and wired network card

Last edited by YHHH (2023-03-12 05:06:00)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Google has a whole 2 hits for "rtl8192fn"
This thread and https://bbs.deepin.org/post/186976
and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1296822 … fi-adapter is pretty much the only non-chinese hit I got for "the popular" MW310UH

Please post the output of

lsusb

and if you can, the complete system journal

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

But from the ubuntu-thread, "045e:07a5" is a microsoft mouse/keyboard combo, so that dongle spoofs vendor and model.
You might need https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … odeswitch/

Last edited by seth (2023-03-10 07:40:13)

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YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

lsusb https://pastebin.com/03Tg2WXu
lsusb -v https://pastebin.com/AnZUrFAY

YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

i also try to switch it to wlan adapter mod but it still dosen't work
if must install a driver please tell me how to edit live cd

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 28a0:1285  USB OPTICAL MOUSE 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 003: ID 174c:225c ASMedia Technology Inc. AS2235
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bda:a192 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. DISK
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Is one of those supposed to be the wifi dongle??

"174c:225c ASMedia Technology Inc. AS2235" is detected as mass storage, is it the "28a0:1285  USB OPTICAL MOUSE"?

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YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bda:a192 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. DISK
this one

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Is it a dual mode device needing usb_modeswitch?
Edit:

# usb_modeswitch -v 0bda -p a192 -KW

Last edited by loqs (2023-03-10 22:04:22)

YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

i tried it but i still cant find my device

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

What's the output for the usb_modeswitch call and does it change anything about "lsusb"?

If you have a phone, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering - my hopes for that particular chip are limited.

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YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

i know what happend
i need a driver
can you tell me how to preinstall a driver in to install iso

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

You may know "what happened", but we don't unless you tell us.
You don't "need a driver", you need the device to actually show up as a wifi NIC.
Also, afaict, "rtl8192fn" isn't actually a thing. Again: I found 2 references to it across the entire internet.

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

Before you can install anything, a driver needs to be found .

https://github.com/BrightX/rtl8192fu does have the id listed so it may be suitable for your card.
You'll have to find someone who can read the language that page uses to verify that.

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YHHH

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

i founded the right driver but i want to install into arch install iso

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

As long as the thing shows up as mass storage device and unless the rtl8192fu drivers perform a modeswitch implicitly, no driver will be able to turn it into a wifi dongle.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso on how to build a custom iso, but it'll be easier to tether the cellphone network for the installation and install the dkms driver then.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

https://blog.csdn.net/KeyBordkiller/art … /124498463 documents 0bda:a192 becomes 0bda:f192 after mode switch which as Lone_Wolf found is 8192fu https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8192fu-dkms-git
Edit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commi … 5611bea847
Hopefully the PID becomes f179  Realtek demoboard 8188FU 1*1 not f192 Realtek demoboard 8192FU 2*2 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ … re.c#L6756
Edit2:

# Maintainer: Utkan Güngördü <utkan@freeconsole.org>

pkgname=rtl8192fu-git
_pkgbase=rtl8192fu
pkgver=5.8.6.2.r64.g4d7cff3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Driver for Realtek RTL8192FU chipset wireless cards"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://github.com/BrightX/rtl8192fu"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('linux')
makedepends=('git' 'bc' 'linux-headers')
conflicts=("${_pkgbase}")
source=("git+https://github.com/BrightX/rtl8192fu")
sha256sums=('SKIP')

pkgver() {
    cd $_pkgbase
    printf '%s.r%s.g%s' '5.8.6.2' "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
}

build() {
    cd $_pkgbase
    make KVER="$(</usr/src/linux/version)"
}

package() {
    local extradir=/usr/lib/modules/$(</usr/src/linux/version)/extramodules
    cd $_pkgbase
    install -Dt "$pkgdir$extradir" -m644 *.ko
    find "$pkgdir" -name '*.ko' -exec xz {} +
}

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CTgEJ9 … share_link rtl8192fu-git-5.8.6.2.r64.g4d7cff3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst this is built for 6.2.1-arch1-1 which is the kernel on the latest ISO.

Last edited by loqs (2023-03-11 16:08:42)

cantabile

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Re: [SOLVED] wireless network card can't use while installing

RTL8192FU will be supported by the kernel, probably starting with version 6.5.

Unfortunately usb_modeswitch doesn't know the ID 0bda:a192 and the creator hasn't answered my email yet.

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