RTL8811 Wifi USB Adapter

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DangerD
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RTL8811 Wifi USB Adapter

Post by DangerD » 2019/11/03 15:38:38

Trying to get it work, it identifies as USB Mass storage...
Any suggestion?

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[  929.428116] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 8
[  930.935572] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci
[  931.021348] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=1a2b
[  931.021360] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[  931.021367] usb 2-1.2: Product: DISK
[  931.021373] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  931.024124] usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  931.024282] scsi host7: usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[  932.029475] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Realtek  Driver Storage   1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[  932.031653] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[  932.035860] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 16000 512-byte logical blocks: (8.19 MB/7.81 MiB)
[  932.038321] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[  932.038334] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[  932.040842] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[  932.040917] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  932.051900]  sdb:
[  932.058422] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

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Re: RTL8811 Wifi USB Adapter

Post by TrevorH » 2019/11/03 16:22:39

Look at usb-modeswitch. Many devices when first attached to a system come up in "Windows" mode and emulate a mass storage device with the Windows drivers available on them ready to be installed. Once installed on Windows they do the equivalent of a usb-modeswitch to flip the device into its correct operating mode. You need to get it to do that too.

Of course, once you do that, you may then find that it still doesn't have any driver...
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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