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after a wi fi dongle

cullimore

hi there,

 

i am after a wi fi usb dongle for when i get my Raspberry Pi.

 

will any wi fi usb dongle work?? will drivers be available??

 

cheers

  • Thre are a lot of USB Wifi device supoorted striaght off the Kernel with Debian, but it's a case of they might have cut a few bits out or not coded them for the ARM version.

  • in reply to M0DCD

    There are certainly a lot of things missing from the default kernel. iptables is one glaring omission. I hope that later releases will be more full featured, but I guess it's a trade-off between features and memory footprint.

  • in reply to Montala

    I too have purchased one of these dongles after finding problems with my other dongles, both claim to be supported by the PI Squeeze.

     

    one, a Belkin F5D7050  which claims to be a ZD1211B but 'Squeeze' wont talk to it as there are error reports on powering up.

    Sadly I don't have the experience yet to correct the error report with a cure.

    .

    the other, a D-Link DWL-G122 that claims to be an Ralink RT73,

    The D-Link refuses to connect even though it is loading drivers and 'sort of' talking to the OS.

    I get a list of local nodes with 'IWlist wlan0 scan' but no sweeties when trying to connect to an open network node.

     

    The Edimax EW-7811UN has the Linux driver software on their site, but itneeds compiling to the host OS and Hardware.

     

    Damned if I know how to do that...

     

    so,

    BELKIN F5D7050 ( ZD1211B in Debian ) no joy

    D-Link DWL-G122 ( Ralink RT73 in Debian ) no joy

     

    Anyone care to compile the Edimax drivers for us 'next to newbies'.

  • in reply to Pencoys

    Mike W, somone has already compiled the Edimax drivers for you. In fact you only need one file, and that's 8192cu.ko.

     

    Check out http://www.ctrl-alt-del.cc/2012/05/raspberry-pi-meets-edimax-ew-7811un-wireless-ada.html

     

    and http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4992  for more info

     

    Regarding your DLink dongle. If you are at the point of getting a list of stations when you type

     

         iwlist wlan0 scan

     

    then to all intents and purposes your dongle is working. You just need to figure out how to connect it to your wireless lan. This process will depend on your particular setup (e.g. whether you are runnin WEP, WPA2 or unencrypted, etc), but all the information on how to do this is documented in many places such as Debian forums.

     

     

     

    Felix.