Re: wireless adapters
Hi Bill,
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:12:48PM -0500, William Kindler wrote:
> I have a USB device which is a D-Link DWA-130, and a PCI adapter which
> is a Netgear WN311T.
[...]
> Does anyone know if either or both of these devices are supported with
> Debian?
The D-Link DWA-130 has had a number of hardware revisions:
- Revision A1 (USB ID 07d1:3b11) contains a Marvell 88W8360 chipset,
which has no native driver available. You would need to use
NDISwrapper[1] for device support.
- Revision B (USB ID 07d1:3c13) is supported by the rt2800usb driver,
which is included in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.31.
For Lenny, you can acquire backported 2.6.32 linux-image packages
from Debian Backports[2]. The firmware-ralink package from
lenny-backports will also need to be installed.
- Revision C1 (USB ID 2001:3301) is supported by the rtl8192u[3]
driver.
- Revision C2 (USB ID 07d1:3302) and revision E (USB ID 07d1:3300) are
supported by the rtl8192su[3] driver.
- Revision D (USB ID 07d1:3a0f) contains an Atheros AR9001U chipset,
which is not currently claimed by the ar9170usb[4] driver in Debian
Linux kernel images.
After using modprobe to insert ar9170usb, you can try executing
"echo 07d1 3a0f > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ar9170usb/new_id" to
inform the driver of this device.
The Netgear WN311T (PCI ID 11ab:2a02) contains a Marvell 88W8361
chipset, which has no native driver available; NDISwrapper[1] would be
required for device support.
> If so could you tell me where the drivers can be obtained, and where
> to install them, if they are not native to the Debian distribution?
For your DWA-130 device, determine its USB ID (you can use lsusb from
the usbutils package), then refer to the respective page on the Debian
wiki.
Geoff
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/Backports
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x
[4] http://wiki.debian.org/ar9170usb
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