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    Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    Ok, I am new to Linux. I have a dual-boot desktop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Problem: Linux does not recognize my D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter. So, I can't access my wireless router or the internet.

    D-Link has a Linux driver for the DWA-131 posted on their website http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=738 that includes a readme file with long, strange, convoluted instructions on how to install the driver.

    Can someone help me make Ubuntu recognize my Wireless N Adapter?

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    Quote Originally Posted by jefferyawillis View Post
    Ok, I am new to Linux. I have a dual-boot desktop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

    Problem: Linux does not recognize my D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter. So, I can't access my wireless router or the internet.

    D-Link has a Linux driver for the DWA-131 posted on their website http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=738 that includes a readme file with long, strange, convoluted instructions on how to install the driver.

    Can someone help me make Ubuntu recognize my Wireless N Adapter?
    Apparently this device uses the rather new 8192SU chip, and a lot of people have been fighting it. The best in this forum, Chili555, fought it as below:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=8192SU

    and seemed to have some success. The linux driver seems to have some problems and the user ended up using ndiswrapper and got it working. It is pretty well documented-step by step, so I would look there. You will need the XP drivers from DLink

    http://www.dlink.com/products/defaul...=DWA-131&tab=3
    . Here are a few other threads to look at.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=8192SU
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=8192SU

    If you go to the terminal ( Applications>>Accessories>>Terminal ) and type in

    Code:
    lsusb
    ( that is LSUSB in lowercase) and receive the following in the listing

    ID 07d1:3303 D-Link System

    It is the same device.

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    I have this usb adaptor, and I'm using it on ubuntu 9.10.

    Only thing is with ndiswrapper, is iwconfig shows it as "wlan1 IEEE 802.11g" but this dongle and my router are wireless-n.

    I'm interested in getting the full "n" potential out of this, will keep digging and post back here if I can work it out .... that is unless someone else can tell me how?

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    Hallo,
    the new Driver from Realtek for rtl9192su v0006 works.

    http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/...Downloads=true

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    OK I finally got it working after using the instructions in this blog post.

    http://samiux.blogspot.com/2010/05/h...sb-dongle.html

    I just had to do 'depmod -a' before I could use modprobe to load the driver.

    Phew!

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    great thread (well great links actually)
    Samiux's blog was extremely helpful

    I had some additional troubles since I was compiling this for a custom kernel on an embedded system running debian instead of ubuntu. (I am a total linux noob, in way over my head, but I've always like the total immersion strategy of learning)

    There were a couple additional changes I had to make, and while they're not necessarily related to ubuntu, this thread seems like a good place to post them.

    First, I was getting an error about the autoconf file and I had to change the Makefile again from:

    ifeq ($(CONFIG_BUILT_IN), y)
    $(shell cp $(src)/autoconf_$(RTL871X)_usb_linux.h $(src)/include/autoconf.h)
    else
    $(shell cp $(PWD)/autoconf_$(RTL871X)_usb_linux.h $(PWD)/include/autoconf.h)
    endif

    to:

    ifeq ($(CONFIG_BUILT_IN), y)
    $(shell cp $(src)/autoconf_$(RTL871X)_usb_linux.h $(src)/include/autoconf.h)
    else
    ifeq ($(PWD), $(nullstring))
    $(shell cp autoconf_$(RTL871X)_usb_linux.h include/autoconf.h)
    else
    $(shell cp $(PWD)/autoconf_$(RTL871X)_usb_linux.h $(PWD)/include/autoconf.h)
    endif
    endif

    I'm not sure what the overall effect of that was, but it stopped the system from complaining.

    The second issue was that the modprobe 8712u failed saying it was an invalid format.

    This issue was because of my strange kernel setup and not the drivers themselves.

    After digging around I found out that it was pointing to the wrong kernel sources.
    (dmesg was showing me 'version magic' errors to tip me off)
    Once I changed the symlink in my /lib/modules/(my custom kernel)/build to the correct headers everything worked perfectly.

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    Exclamation Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    BIG WARNING!!!! Read to the end of this discussion if your kernel version is higher then Kernel 2.6.32-22


    The new drivers 2.60006.2010625 do NOT need more then

    download
    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=2&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level= 5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true #RTL8192SU

    unpacking
    unzip rtl8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.0006.20100226.zip
    cd rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.0006.20100 226/driver
    tar -xvzf rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.0006.20100 226.tar.gz
    cd rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.0006.20100 226

    Building
    sudo su
    make clean
    make
    make install


    Works great
    Last edited by bmjbmj; October 21st, 2010 at 11:51 AM.

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    @bmjbmj - thanks for the guide, but now that i have installed the driver i want to clarify some details for your instructions so that others do not run into the problems i had:
    1. download the driver (bmjbmj's link didn't work, but you can get it at the bottom of this page: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...true#RTL8192SU
    2. cd ~/Downloads/
    3. unzip [the name of the driver you downloaded, versions vary]
    4. cd ~/Downloads/[the name of the driver you downloaded, versions vary]/driver/
    5. now open nautilus and navigate to the above directory, copy the name of the tar.gz archive in the driver folder
    6. tar -xvzf [the tar.gz archive name that you copied]
    7. cd ~/Downloads/[the name of the driver you downloaded, versions vary]/driver/[the name of the archive you just decompressed, without "tar.gz" at the end of the name]/
    8. remember, if the files and folders get confusing, look in nautilus to find the names you need.
    9. Build the driver using these four commands in order, each may take a couple minutes, be patient:
    a. sudo su
    b. make clean
    c. make
    d. make isntall
    10. thanks again to bmjbmj for his instructions, im merely elaborating on them, for other noobs like myself.

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    I got my D-Link DWA-131 worked by using a 8712u module(it's actually 8192u chipset) but with a weird signal strength: 10%. The Wi-Fi of my laptop next to it works fine.

    Does anybody have any idea about what problem this could be?

    All debug info can be given based on demand

    Thanks for any kind of help or prompt

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    Re: Help with D-Link DWA-131 Wireless N USB Adapter driver needed

    Hey matthewp131, thanks so much for that!!! I have just installed Ubuntu last night, and wireless was my number one issue to sort out. Thanks for all the help!

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