NetGear N150 Wireless USB Chip Does Not Work with Raspbian Wheezy on My PI

Question

I am running RaspberryPi with raspbian-wheezy:

uname -a Linux raspberrypi 3.18.5+ #744 PREEMPT Fri Jan 30 18:19:07 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux 

How I want to use the NetGear N150 wireless USB card as a wlan interface:

 dmesg [ 3.401856] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg [ 3.523552] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=9043 [ 3.532493] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 3.541771] usb 1-1.2: Product: WNA1000Mv2 [ 3.547744] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 3.553858] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 

The device is not automatically recognized. After inserting the stick into the Windows machine, it seems that the stick uses the Realtek rtl8192cu chip. Loading the 8192cu kernel module does not seem to work, wlan0 devices are still missing.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Nothing, I found a solution:

The usb identifier is not defined by the 8192cu kernel module as a supported device. After setting up and adding the following code to the rc.local file, everything works as expected:

 modprobe 8192cu echo "0846 9043" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rtl8192cu/new_id ifdown wlan0 ifup wlan0 

To automatically handle this when inserting the module, enter the following line in /etc/modprobe.d/netgear_n150.conf :

 install 8192cu /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install 8192cu; echo "0846 9043" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rtl8192cu/new_id 

Switching to the extra mile: at startup it is automatically more system-specific, but in Arch Linux it’s enough to add a file to /etc/modules.load.d containing the name of the module.