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I looked through all the other topics regarding that specific wifi dongle but nothing worked. I'm on RC3 3.15.8+ kernel.

What i tried:

- Scanning for Network (no SSID's found)
-manually adding SSID and password through xbian-config (Cannot connect to network.)

Additional:
-wifi dongle is ok. it works on my laptop and also it worked in openelec

lsusb:

Code:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

ifconfig:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B8:27:EB:F5:56:B2

          inet addr:192.168.2.12  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:3466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:3058 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:2197707 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:553458 (540.4 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1

          RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:2529 (2.4 KiB)  TX bytes:2529 (2.4 KiB)

thanks for your help!

Same problem for me !

Can you post the output of /etc/network/interfaces

and also the output of dmesg via http://www.pastebin.com

sure, my bad i didnt post that at the first place. here you go:

/etc/network/interfaces

Code:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.2.12

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.2.1

and my dmesg here

also the led on my adapter does not even blink. if that matters anyway

Can you try

Terminal

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/rtlwifi; sudo wget -O /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin https://github.com/OpenELEC/wlan-firmware/blob/master/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin?raw=true

and reboot.

This don't work for me, it still don't appear with ifconfig

it appears that this does not work either.

EDIT:

i finally got it working by running:
thanks to @menakite

Code:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/rtlwifi; sudo wget -O /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin https://github.com/OpenELEC/wlan-firmware/blob/master/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188efw.bin?raw=true

sudo wget -O /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin https://github.com/OpenELEC/wlan-firmware/blob/master/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin?raw=true

and editing my /etc/network/interfaces to:

Code:

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet manual

wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp

and my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to:

Code:

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev

update_config=1

network={

        ssid="NETWORK_NAME"

        psk="NETWORK_PASSWORD"

}

thanks for the help guys!

Yep, that'd be the next test.

Unfortunately Debian Wheezy (stable release) is not packaging this firmware - it's only available in the next stable - so installing firmware-realtek doesn't have any effect.

yea, i noticed. by the way for some strange reason i cannot update my distro. it says that the sources are unreachable. is there any solution to that?

For this you have to change your repo. Check this http://www.xbian.org/faq/

For a wep password do you know how to do ?

@Uhsac

if you manage the fw download to /lib/firmware folder then wlan0 should appear after reboot and use xbian-config settings network to configure

the trick is only with missing .fw

Maylo

Uhsac

IriDium

Maylo

menakite

Uhsac

Maylo

menakite

Maylo

Uhsac

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