I have an alfa NHR v2 that i have never managed to make it work on my router.
I have a brcm63xx based router with one usb port.
on 15.05 i can install the rtl8192cu driver and from dmesg it seams that it loads fine
[ 15.472000] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
[ 15.480000] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
[ 15.488000] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[ 15.492000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu
[ 21.264000] bcm63xx_enetsw bcm63xx_enetsw.0: link UP on Port 3, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[ 29.016000] bcm63xx_enetsw bcm63xx_enetsw.0: link UP on Port 3, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[ 29.044000] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 29.048000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 29.068000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 29.072000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 31.076000] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 31.780000] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[ 31.816000] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
But it brings to a stall even the internal wifi adapter b43-phy0: Broadcom 43225. Ifconfig iwconfig never respond and hang indefinitely. Neither the internal b43 nor the usb work.
The b43 works fine without the usb.
if they are both disabled iwconfig works fine
root@OpenWrt:~# iwconfig
eth0.1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
br-lan no wireless extensions.
So i decided to try the latest 15.05.01(same behavior with the latest snapshot 20/6)
tried first the newest driver rtl8xxxu but no luck as you can see
[ 11.846574] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 11.852511] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 11.858220] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 11.876378] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 11.912044] Loading modules backported from Linux version v4.4-rc5-1913-gc8fdf68
[ 11.919688] Backport generated by backports.git backports-20151218-0-g2f58d9d
[ 11.934476] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 11.964436] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (439 buckets, 1756 max)
[ 12.049642] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[ 12.654458] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 12.664695] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 12.718603] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8xxxu
[ 12.778614] b43-phy0: Broadcom 43225 WLAN found (core revision 23)
[ 12.786196] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 8, Type 4 (N), Revision 6
[ 12.792506] b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2056, Revision 11, Version 0
[ 12.801162] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL ]
[ 12.966992] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 24.423824] bcm63xx_enetsw bcm63xx_enetsw.0: link UP on Port 3, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[ 24.439916] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 24.444880] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 24.468977] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 24.474784] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 26.475345] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 27.911347] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 28.050036] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 28.064364] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 28.615884] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 28.622713] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 28.628432] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
[ 30.631345] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entered forwarding state
and same thing with the rtl8192cu, the only line that appeared in the logs was
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu and nothing else
Do you know of any driver that works with this chipset?
In kali linux it works fine with the rtl8192cu driver.
(Last edited by owrt2 on 21 Jun 2016, 11:27)