Wireless USB

[gbar]

anyone any success with this?
What brand is most suitable?

[nugu53]

I’m using rtl8822bu (USB D-Link Corp. DWA-181 AC1300 802.11ac) without problems.

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

Over the night, ECR6600U disconnects from the WiFi. To reconnect, I have to do ifconfig down and ifconfig up. The router (Tenda AC15, FreshTomato 2022.7) sees the WiFi signal, but packets are not received by ECR6600U (I have a serial cable connected, tcpdump on VisionFive2 does not see ping packets sent from the router). Now I’m playing with a rtl8822bu (USB D-Link Corp. 802.11ac). The folder /media/vision/VisionFive2/linux contains a kernel compiled for ECR6600U using @HonestQiao tutorial in …

[mzs]

I’ll point you to this thread, but @nugu53 has already pointed you to most important thing covered in the thread.

Compatible USB wifi modules

I just wanted to know if any generic USB Wifi module would be compatible with the visionfive2. I was thinking of getting one off this list: here.

I’m using the USB WiFi dongle that I ordered at the same time as the VF2 board:

$ lsusb | grep -i win
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 3452:6600 ESWIN 6600U

[jiangtao9999]

Wireless USB ?
USB WIFI Network Adapter ？
OR，USB Port Without USB-line ?

If USB Wifi , there are some choosen with in kernel driver. But you need build your self kernel.
If USB without line, the better choose is use USB over Ethernet.

[gbar]

Hi,

its a generic wifi USB dongle from the PiHut.
802.11n
Will look into seeing if i can build but haven’t had luck in previous attempt to ‘build’ a common lisp - sbcl.
Thanks

[mzs]

@gbar

its a generic wifi USB dongle from the PiHut.
802.11n

What is the USB VID:PID (VendorID:ProductID) shown by lsusb (you may require sudo apt install usbutils first before you can execute lsusb) for your “generic” WiFi USB dongle.

See my post above for an example USB VID(4-digit hexadecimal):PID(4-digit hexadecimal)

[gbar]

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 148f:5370 Ralink technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adaptor

[mzs]

A quick check in /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids
VID: 148f Ralink Technology, Corp.
PID: 5370 RT5370 Wireless Adapter
After a quick check the StarFive linux kernel I would say that if you re-compile the kernel with “RT2800USB=m” and “RT2800USB_RT53XX=m” in your .config file it will probably work.
I checked and no module is currently created by default in the StarFive “engineering” Debian distribution for a RT5370.

$ zgrep -i RT2800USB /proc/config.gz
$ zgrep -i RT2800USB_RT53XX /proc/config.gz
$

As for howto recompile the kernel search the forum for “scmversion” and you will find something useful. Or there is a document for cross-compiling a kernel and modules on an x64 machine. https://doc-en.rvspace.org/VisionFive2/SDK_Quick_Start_Guide/index.html.

[gbar]

@mzs

scmversion

thanks. i’ll give it a try over the weekend hopefully