USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

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USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by RottenDirector » 2018/12/25 16:52:39

Finally got my DLink dwa-131 nano to install and it detects it as a USB ethernet how do i fix thxx

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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by toracat » 2018/12/25 23:52:45

What is the output of lsusb? Please post the line that represents the DLink device.
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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by ittech » 2019/01/02 10:57:03

[admin@mstl-centos7 ~]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2001:3319 D-Link Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 17ef:6019 Lenovo
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0461:0010 Primax Electronics, Ltd HP PR1101U / Primax PMX-KPR1101U Keyboard
Bus 006 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 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by toracat » 2019/01/02 16:27:45

Your ID pairing is 2001:3319. Unfortunately this device is not supported in the current kernel. Fortunately, the current upstream (kernel.org) kernel seems to have the driver (rtl8xxxu). Can you try installing ELRepo's kernel-ml and see if your device works?
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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by ittech » 2019/01/03 03:29:20

how to install ELRepo's kernel-ml and let us know steps wise instructions.

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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by mashiro2004 » 2019/01/05 14:08:04

Hi,
as described on elrepo site you can:

rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
rpm -Uvh https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7 ... noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-ml

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Re: USB wifi adapter detected as USB Ethernet

Post by ittech » 2019/04/22 09:56:47

I will try and let you know.
Thanks

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