Asus WLAN N10 Wireless USB Wifi Connecter

[Cr1scoD1sco]

I am aware that there have been a few threads about this, but when I tried to follow the instructions, I had no luck. I have only been using Ubuntu for about a week so I know very little about anything other than writing commands in the terminal and extracting files. PLEASE keep your answers as easily understandable as possible. Assume I know nothing (which is pretty much true). I'm running Ubuntu Studio 11.04. The desktop I'm installing on is not connected to the internet.

So, here's my issue. I went to my local computer store today and asked them for a Wireless USB Connecter that I could use to connect my Ubuntu desktop to the internet. They gave me an Asus WLAN N10 which came with an Installation Disc and Instruction Manual which said to just put the disc in and it would install automatically, which it did not. I have tried methods that other people have posted but always reached an error.

If you need to know any contents of any of the folders or details please just ask and I will edit this with that information.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated

[nothingspecial]

Thread moved to Networking & Wireless.

[chili555]

Please plug in your adapter and open a terminal and run this command:

lsusb

Find the line that is your Asus and post it here. Once we have the exact identity of your device, we'll be in a better position to proceed.

It may, or may not look something like this:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0b05:1786 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.

What have you tried that reached an error?

[kajong0007]

I am only a marginally more experienced ubuntu user. I have the same wireless adapter, and it worked out of box. I could not get the drivers on the CD to compile; I always reached some error (I'll paste it below).

$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-17-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8180_93cx6.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.o
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c: In function ‘r8192_wx_set_countrycode’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_wx.c:237:16: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_phy.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_rtl6052.o
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_rtl6052.c: In function ‘setAntennaDiff’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_rtl6052.c:355:23: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_rtl8225.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r819xU_cmdpkt.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192SU_HWImg.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_firmware.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192S_Efuse.o
  CC [M]  /home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.o
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_rx_initiate’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:1607:35: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘usb_fill_bulk_urb’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
include/linux/usb.h:1269:20: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘sk_buff_data_t’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_rx_isr’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:2064:4: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘usb_fill_bulk_urb’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
include/linux/usb.h:1269:20: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘sk_buff_data_t’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:2071:30: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192SU_MacConfigAfterFwDownload’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:7847:24: warning: comparison between ‘rtl819xUsb_loopback_e’ and ‘enum _RTL8192SUSB_LOOPBACK’ [-Wenum-compare]
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:7849:30: warning: comparison between ‘rtl819xUsb_loopback_e’ and ‘enum _RTL8192SUSB_LOOPBACK’ [-Wenum-compare]
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c: In function ‘rtl8192_usb_probe’:
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12325:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12326:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12327:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘tx_timeout’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12328:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘do_ioctl’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12329:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘set_multicast_list’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12330:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘set_mac_address’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12331:5: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c:12332:6: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
make[2]: *** [/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/HAL/rtl8192u] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-17-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Here's the relevant bit of "lshw -C network":

  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 3
       bus info: usb@2:1.2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 54:04:a6:b9:cc:9b
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=10.202.194.113 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg

My computer just started using the r8712u even though the proper driver is rtl8192su...

[chili555]

/home/jjo1/Desktop/Linux/rtl8192su_linux_2.4_2.6.0003.0301.2010/

You are not going to get this relative old-timer to compile in 3.0.0-xx.

even though the proper driver is rtl8192su.

How so? Because SU is in the name of the device? That's fairly meaningless in Linux. However, if r8712u is working correctly, then it's obviously correct. Also:

$ modinfo rtl8192su
ERROR: modinfo: could not find module rtl8192su

[kajong0007]

"Working correctly" may be going too far. I'm actually having a few issues staying connected to a network at my university that is encrypted with WPA-2 Enterprise. I don't know if this is the driver's fault or the network's. Every once in a while, my computer disconnects from the network then supposedly attempts to connect again. I am able to successfully reconnect if I just wait a while and try again (e.g. I randomly disconnected earlier, ate lunch, then connected again).

[edit]
Oh, and by "proper driver" I mean the one I thought I was trying to compile.

[Cr1scoD1sco]

Please plug in your adapter and open a terminal and run this command:

lsusb

Do you mean copying the CD or adapter to the terminal than then typing that? I plugged in the adapter and typed '1susb' into it but it came back with this:

No command '1susb' found, did you mean:
Command 'lsusb' from package 'usbutils' (main)
1susb: command not found

Scratch that. I got it to work. heres what it came back with:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 15d9:0a4c Trust International B.V.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 0b05:1786 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0root hub

[chili555]

Sorry, the fonts are a bit hard to read. It is not ONEsusb; it is ELsusb, as in LiSt all the USB devices.

[Cr1scoD1sco]

Do you have any idea on what I should do next?