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More wireless drivers ? #355

Open rfenouil opened 5 years ago

rfenouil commented 5 years ago

Hello, and first: Thank you for the amazing work done here !

For background, I'm a linux noob and I don't understand clearly most of the 'module' things yet... Feel free to point me to appropriate documentation if you realize my questions are irrelevant.

I'm running into the issue of searching for a USB wireless (WIFI) adapter that supports monitor mode (for AP), with a driver that allows to attach interface to a network namespace (docker)...

I have two usb sticks I'd like to test, here is what lsusb reports when plugged in:

After some "googling", I think that these adapters rely on 'ath9k_htc' and 'p54usb' drivers respectively.

By default, the adapters don't show up when using iwconfig. I tried installing theit 'non-free' firmware files but that didn't help.

I think their drivers are just not included in the kernel nor available as modules. Does that sound correct ?

Then I tired that: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6799 The goal was to download and compile the kernel by myself after including appropriate drivers with make menuconfig but I just messed up y config and I now have to reinstall everything from scratch...

My request: would it be possible to include some more wireless adapters drivers in the default build so we can experiment with a broader range of hardware ?

Thank you so much and sorry if this questions appears vague or not documented enough.

Feel free to ask any questions.

rfenouil commented 5 years ago

For info if useful, I was using the release named: 'stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.8.0rc9-1120-arm64.img'