Help with USB antenna

[RobertZhivkov]

Hello there, my name is Robert. I have a base installation of Tinycore and the usb antenna i bought dose not work I have done some debugging and i know its uses a Realteck chip (Implied by the 214b: part of the ID) i have tried using modprobe, specially the rtl8xxxu & rtl8193cu modules. When running lsusb there are 2 ID's asigned to it one of them is a fake one (1111:1111) and the other one is called Huasang Electronic (214b:7260). Its also Write Protected. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

[RobertZhivkov]

I forgot to include that fact that after running modprobe with dose 2 modules i still wasn't geting a wlanX and everything that was listed on iwconfig said there was no wireless firmware. Upon start up it said the wifi driver that I installed was "unstable" for my hardware and it gives up.

[patrikg]

USB antenna ?
SDR or WIFI or what ?

[RobertZhivkov]

USB wifi antenna, the wifi module just doesn't work, no matter the operating system. So i decided to buy an USB WIFI antenna 

[patrikg]

Have seen some Realtek usb wifi needs some firmware, have you loaded that ?

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firmware-rtlwifi.tczAnd what is the dmesg saying ?

[RobertZhivkov]

firmware-rtlwifi is installed. heres the output of dmesg for you:

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[sdb] Write Protect is on
[sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 80 08
[sdb] No Caching mode page found
[sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through(The rest is the internal USB hub of my laptop)

    [Edit]: Added code tags.  Rich

[Rich]

Hi RobertZhivkov
Welcome to the forum.

Please use  Code Tags  when posting commands and responses seen in a terminal. To use  Code Tags  click on the  #  icon
above the reply box and paste your text between the  Code Tags  as shown in this example:

[code][   36.176529] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supply 'AVDD': -517
[   36.176536] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supplies: -517
[   36.191753] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supply 'AVDD': -517[/code]

It will appear like this in your post:

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[   36.176529] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supply 'AVDD': -517
[   36.176536] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supplies: -517
[   36.191753] pcm512x 1-004d: Failed to get supply 'AVDD': -517
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[Rich]

Hi RobertZhivkov
If you haven't already, install pciutils.

Then run:

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lsusb > lsusb.txt
lspci > lspci.txt
lsmod > lsmod.txt
dmesg > dmesg.txt
Attach those 4 files to your next post so we can get a
better picture of what's going on.