Getting an RTL8192 worrking

[ab1jx]

I'm a little surprised it doesn't actually.  I've got half a dozen of them, in a Pi they just work.  Garden variety USB wifi adapter, comes in big or small depending on the antenna size, $4-15 on eBay.

ifquery --list shows only lo

lsmod shows:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by rtl8xxxu               73728  0 rtl8192cu              94208  0 rtl_usb                24576  1 rtl8192cu rtl8192c_common        65536  1 rtl8192cu rtlwifi                98304  3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu usblp                  20480  0 ip_tables              24576  0 x_tables               32768  1 ip_tables autofs4                40960  0 uas                    20480  0 usb_storage            61440  1 uas

dmesg | grep rtl shows:

Code:

[    7.043104] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10 [    7.137326] rtl8192cu: MAC address: 48:02:2a:9d:4d:57 [    7.137346] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0 [    7.137584] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1 [    7.137706] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin [    7.138374] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [    7.139636] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu [    7.150127] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8xxxu [    7.162122] rtl8192cu 1-1:1.0 wlx48022a9d4d57: renamed from wlan0 [    8.852083] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [    8.880483] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [    9.458969] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [    9.488545] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [  352.137643] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [  352.188560] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [  668.148896] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [  668.203780] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [  889.037179] rtl_usb: reg 0x102, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xffffffed value=0x90e1317 [  889.037224] rtl_usb: reg 0x422, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xffffffed value=0xf000690e [  889.037267] rtl_usb: reg 0x542, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xffffffed value=0x324072c [  889.037439] rtl_usb: reg 0x102, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xffffffed value=0x1a0335 [ 1186.287879] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10 [ 1186.395365] rtl8192cu: MAC address: 48:02:2a:9d:4d:57 [ 1186.395406] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0 [ 1186.395544] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1 [ 1186.395620] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin [ 1186.396401] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [ 1186.425928] rtl8192cu 1-1:1.0 wlx48022a9d4d57: renamed from wlan0 [ 1186.461059] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [ 1186.492930] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [ 1187.071627] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [ 1187.101405] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [ 1530.115320] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [ 1530.158109] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05 [ 1846.131275] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay! [ 1846.187095] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05

A cell phone is my only internet connection, through the wifi hotspot.  So I can't just apt-get anything yet.  I can mount the SD in a reader on a Pi and get things on and off that way.  The firmware seems to be there.

I have an interfaces file that generally works fine under Debian consisting of

Code:

auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp   wireless-essid Moto_lte

that didn't work, the stock one didn't work.