Recommendation on (cheap nano/mini) usb wireless adapter

[pepedog]

Yes, on the pi it's patched into kernel before compile, at kernel source (foundation)
The dkms makes me wish they didn't.

[moonman]

Hey guys. The driver comes with patches for kernel >3.7, so I am not certain if it will work with earlier versions. If I put in the repo then it will only work with armv5 since AFAIK this is the only kernel that's 3.8.

[moonman]

pepedog, if you could test it on various hardware of yours that would be awesome. Maybe it works with older kernel versions - i don't know and don't have any other devices besides listed in my signature. And I don't have a wifi adapter with that realtek chip as well.

Basically I am wondering if dkms will succeed building the driver with older kernels

PKGBUILD:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15043728/dkms-8192cu.tar.gz')

[moonman]

Submitted to github: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUIL ... kms-8192cu

For now only for armv5 devices (with linux-kirkwood kernel)

[moonman]

Actually I looked at the patch itself and it seems it will work for kernels < 3.7. Test and report back if you find any problems.

[moonman]

Tested on kernel 3.1 and 3.8 on armv5 devices and the module built successfully on both, it does take several minutes to build. I don't have an adapter with the that particular chip so can't say if it actually works.
Install with:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Sy dkms-8192cu')

[pepedog]

Can confirm it works on Cubox running 3.5.7
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5389&p=30501#p30501
wifi-menu works too

Don't have dongle plugged in when first time building, I think old module was in use at the time

[suyanlu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'C')an confirm it works on Cubox running 3.5.7
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=5389&p=30501#p30501
wifi-menu works too

Don't have dongle plugged in when first time building, I think old module was in use at the time

[pepedog]

Going off topic slightly, but if you have netctl and use wifi-menu to scan and connect, it creates a profile in /etc/netctl/

Then systemctl "enable netctl-auto@wlan0" will run thru all saved profiles of access points until connected

[grayman4hire]

@pepedog, regarding netctl...

I'm switching from netcfg and have a question for you. With netcfg, you can specify the order of the profiles to try in the /etc/conf.d/netcfg.

What's the equivalent method using netctl (assuming there is one)?

In other words, if I use "systemctl enable netctl-auto@wlan0" in what order will the profiles be tried?

BTW, wifi-menu is pretty neat. So much easier now to setup wifi versus how it was when this thread was started.

Back on topic...

I recently picked up this adapter and its plug and play.
High Power 802.11 B/N/G 300M USB Wireless 1000mw Wifi Network Adapter with Dual Antenna