Title: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: dragonmike on January 21, 2014, 08:04:00 PM Hi
Well it's all in the title... I am a total Linux noob and I have no idea how to install the driver for my TP Link TL-WN821N USB Wifi adapter in BAMT. Please help me to get started! I have zero connectivity on the BAMT boot so I cannot even test my setup :-( A sequence of the commands I have to enter would be highly appreciated!... Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: bigblind on January 21, 2014, 09:24:46 PM Do you understand german? ^^
http://www.linux-hardware-guide.de/2012-10-20-tp-link-tl-wn821n-wlan-usb-300-mbit Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: dragonmike on January 21, 2014, 10:12:50 PM I have v4... RLT8192CU chipset... And still no idea what to do :-(
Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: bittech9438 on January 22, 2014, 03:33:05 AM FYI, There is a more recent version of BAMT out there called SMOS available at http://www.smos-linux.org/ . This has more recent video card drivers and some other enhancements and builds on BAMT. There is also a crontab job setup though to automatically mine to their pools for a few minutes each day for donation purposes, so be aware of this and adjust if needed.
As others have already said on the middlecoint thread, getting drivers to work in BAMT / SMOS may be difficult, or you might get it working. But even if you succeed in getting the drivers to work, you may find that connectivity to your rig will not be stable anyway over a usb based wifi connection (high loss rates, remote control issues, lots of hassle involved). I have found for in my area anyway that my rigs work much better over a wired connection running SMOS Linux / BAMT. I have given up attempting to run any rigs over wifi reliably for long periods after much trial and error and I use wired connections only. This does not mean it cannot be done, but in my experience it's usually not worth it to go this route. Other options to consider (best to worst):
Good luck! Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: cp1 on January 22, 2014, 03:37:29 AM What distro is BAMT? type lsb_release -a and paste in what it says
Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: Treggar on January 22, 2014, 04:20:56 AM BAMT is based on debian
Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: cp1 on January 22, 2014, 05:36:33 AM That's odd that it's not supported out of the box. Check here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: dragonmike on January 22, 2014, 08:07:10 AM That's odd that it's not supported out of the box. Check here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers Neither 821N nor RLT8192CU are on that list :(Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: dragonmike on January 22, 2014, 08:33:19 AM Uh oh typo... should be RTL8192CU
...and that one's on the list. So why on earth doesn't BAMT see it? Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: cp1 on January 22, 2014, 03:07:19 PM type lspci and see if it's in there
then type ifconfig and see if you see a wireless entry (WLAN) Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: scrap on January 22, 2014, 03:15:39 PM you may have had a bad burn, try another usb stick with new image and try again.
Title: Re: Please help me install network drivers in BAMT! Post by: Zackary on March 07, 2014, 07:29:24 AM Here is how I got my TP-Link TL-WN821N (v4) working in BAMT (v.1.5):
1) Download 8192CU package from Realtek here (be sure to get the linux 8192CU package): http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=277&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#2772 2) Move the downloaded contents to a USB drive 3) Mount drive with downloaded contents (with BAMT running) and cd to the drive's directory (my commands shown as example) Code: cd /media/PNY/RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.2_9000.20130911 Code: sh install.sh |