Installing PAU09 on headless box

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Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/10 21:12:52

My Centos7 machine doesn't have a window manager or many of the normal desktop tools. I bought a PAU09 wifi adapter for it, but when I plug it in, ifconfig won't show it at all. Panda support says it should just come up, but there's no indication I can see that it's being seen by the box at all. It's plugged into a USB3 port right on the Mobo that I know is a working port.

uname -a; cat /etc/centos-release

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Linux oak 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20 20:32:50 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
I'm at a loss if there's something else I need to do, and Panda support doesn't seem to know what to do if there's no wifi icon for me to click.
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by TrevorH » 2017/11/10 22:19:12

Post the output from lsusb so we can see the data about the card.
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/11 16:29:30

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root @ oak:~# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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 002: ID 148f:5572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5572 Wireless Adapter
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

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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by TrevorH » 2017/11/11 17:35:40

That should be supported by the rt2800usb module. Use lsmod | grep rt2800 to check if it's already loaded and if not then modprobe it. If it is loaded, what is the output from ifconfig -a
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/12 16:35:53

It does not show up in lsmod at all. It also does not show up in ifconfig either.

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root @ oak:/etc/modprobe.d# lsmod | grep rs2800
root @ oak:/etc/modprobe.d# ifconfig -a
enp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.1.10  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.1.255
        inet6 fe80::c007:1e47:e0f7:858c  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether fc:aa:14:c0:63:95  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 217895602  bytes 324362979406 (302.0 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 18185227  bytes 4689250907 (4.3 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 637596  bytes 326164323 (311.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 637596  bytes 326164323 (311.0 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

root @ oak:/etc/modprobe.d#
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/12 16:41:56

Also PandaWireless told me to follow this instruction sheet:

http://www.pandawireless.com/download/P ... _v1.0s.pdf

But when I get to the make section it fails.

On their page http://www.pandawireless.com/Drivers%20 ... eless.html, it says this would be for the PAU06, not PAU09 so I'm not sure that's the right direction to take.

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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by TrevorH » 2017/11/12 18:33:24

Don't build from source, the module is already included.

What happens when you modprobe rt2800usb ? Look in /var/log/messages afterwards and see if there are any messages. Repeat your ifconfig -a too.
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/13 02:17:38

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root @ oak:~# modprobe rt2800usb

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root @ oak:~# tail /var/log/messages
Nov 12 20:15:01 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539301.7978] device (wlp0s16f1u2): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to BE:8F:2C:F9:7A:07 (scanning)
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s16f1u2: link is not ready
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.7958] rfkill0: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb8/8-2/8-2:1.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill0) (driver rt2800usb)
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.7987] supplicant: wpa_supplicant running
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.7989] device (wlp0s16f1u2): supplicant interface state: init -> starting
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.8502] sup-iface[0x564c1e4708a0,wlp0s16f1u2]: supports 4 scan SSIDs
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.8520] device (wlp0s16f1u2): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539302.8522] device (wlp0s16f1u2): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'supplicant-available') [20 30 42]
Nov 12 20:15:02 oak kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s16f1u2: link is not ready
Nov 12 20:15:03 oak ModemManager[792]: <info>  Couldn't check support for device at '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb8/8-2': not supported by any plugin
Nov 12 20:15:13 oak NetworkManager[825]: <info>  [1510539313.0663] device (wlp0s16f1u2): supplicant interface state: ready -> inactive
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by TrevorH » 2017/11/13 07:18:14

So, it works then.
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Re: Installing PAU09 on headless box

Post by rhanthony » 2017/11/14 17:17:20

It seems to have started showing up now yes. I'm not sure what changed however, as it wasn't showing up in ifconfig -a at all since I put it on the machine - now it does. I may have to look into the port having some issue (connection wise).

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