Using Alfa AWUS036H USB adapter

Hi everyone,

I'm running openwrt-19.07.6-brcm2708-bcm2710-rpi-3-ext4-factory.img on a Raspberry PI 3B.
I've followed the steps in this thread: Issue adding USB wireless adapter

I can see my device with lsusb, but not with iw list. I can't see it among the wireless interfaces. I currently see radio0, I'd expect to see also radio1.

Can you please help me?

Thanks

unplug it, then insert it back again, and post the output from dmesg.

@frollic thanks for the quick reply. In this dmesg you also see when I've loaded the modules, and my previous plugs/unplugs.

[86045.181741] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86045.201666] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
[86045.208595] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86045.272186] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86045.281952] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86271.785786] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 7
[86274.897880] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 8 using dwc_otg
[86275.048915] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
[86275.057764] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[86275.068974] usb 1-1.2: Product: UB91C
[86275.074254] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[86275.079459] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 12345
[86394.467220] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86394.476511] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[86394.484805] ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
[86394.491860] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86401.983456] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86401.994234] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[86402.001824] Warning! ehci_hcd should always be loaded before uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd, not after
[86402.013421] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[86402.020461] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86402.051666] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86402.060019] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[86438.441791] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 8
[86441.298250] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using dwc_otg
[86441.449245] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
[86441.458100] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[86441.469422] usb 1-1.2: Product: UB91C
[86441.474737] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[86441.480005] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 12345
[86595.113793] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 9
[86598.736907] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 10 using dwc_otg
[86598.887949] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
[86598.896763] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[86598.907956] usb 1-1.2: Product: UB91C
[86598.913424] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[86598.919454] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 12345
[92035.625807] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 10
[92038.224579] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 11 using dwc_otg
[92038.375590] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271
[92038.384201] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[92038.395024] usb 1-1.2: Product: UB91C
[92038.400274] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[92038.406138] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 12345

Have you installed

https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/kmod-ath9k-htc ?

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no :slight_smile: solved, thanks!

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