anticapitalista wrote:roky - take a bow for all your hard work testing on different hardware. Very much appreciated!
One question (not just to roky). d.o mentioned that linux-wlan-ng is probab;y not needed. Could users test this out.
Is prism2-usb-firmware-installer needed?
I finally found a usb-adapter based on a prism chipset (ISSL3887 in this case). Its a piece of junk and I think its broken, but antiX-15-a4/5 will pick it up in a lsusb . The module p54usb gets loaded, however I think firmware is missing for this card, as debian may or may not package it (info conflicts, some places say its in linux-firmware-nonfree, others sources, including a debian wiki, say to download the firmware from the supplier, which is available btw).
at any rate, the linux-wlan-ng driver (prism2_usb) doesn't work at all with the adapter. I uninstalled linux-wlan-ng and used the default drivers' in the kernel, after downloading the firmware (see debian wiki here for more info, the adapter is on the supported list
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). i was able to see the card with iwconfig and rfkill but I could not bring the card up with ifconfig, hence why I think it may be broken. Well, I could bring it up and get it listed, but the lights on the card never came on.
I'm going to try with MX, which uses a debian kernel, and see if there is a difference.
***edit*** tried with MX. I had to install the firmware, but the hardware detection worked better. Still couldn't use the adapter, but I really do think its broken. Doens't work in windows either. BTW, MX does NOT include linux-wlan-ng or the prism2-usb-firmware-installer by default.