【Good news】I successfully use five wireless dongles of 4 chips on VisionFive 2

VisionFive 2 （English Forum)
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I have five wireless dongles:

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They are:

  • RTL8192CU：“EDUP” in the first picture
  • MT7601U：one is “Mi” in the first picture，second is “du” in the first picture
  • ECR6600U：the green dongle in the first picture, Officially provided.
  • RTL8832AU：“EDUP” in the second picture

In these wireless dongles, both ECR6600U and RTL8832AU support WiFi6.
ECR6600U supports 2.4GHz. RTL8832AU supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

I successfully use these five wireless dongles on VisionFive 2.
My system is Debian image69.

Because I am a Chinese user, I wrote a post in Chinese to explain how to use these USB wireless dongles.
The url is https://forum.rvspace.org/t/2-usb-rtl8832au-wifi6/1595.
Maybe you need to use Google Translate to help you to view.
I will arrange time to write an English document.

Today is Chinese New Year, My best wishes to everyone.

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(Bad news)
Just tried your write up for the ECR6600U (again).
Still does not work.
Driver compiles, but is very unstable (repeated password prompts + stack traces galore).
Not useable.

Aubrey

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When ecr6600u is connected to the board, two network devices will appear.
One is for normal mode, other is for WiFi-Direct.

You can try these steps

# unplug ECR6600U, then plug in ECR6600U
dmesg | grep -Ei 'wlan|p2p'

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The device with “…p2p0…” is WiFi-Direct
The device with “…wlan…” is for WiFI-Normal.

If you want to connect to WiFi router, you need to use the device for WiFI-Normal.

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Thanks for the information.
I am travelling at the moment. I will give your suggestion a try later in the week.

Regards

Aubrey

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