Hello to everyone.
I'm connected to the internet using the internal wi-fi chipset and
driver (mwifiex_sdio)
embedded by default inside my ARM Chromebook. Since it does not work
well,in fact it generates a lot of errors,that are visible between the
dmesg messages :
[4.381282] mwifiex_sdio mmc2:0001:1: CMD_RESP: cmd 0x242 error, result=0x2
[4.383289] mwifiex_sdio mmc2:0001:1: mwifiex_process_cmdresp: cmd 0x242
failed during initialization
I've decided to attach a different wi-fi adapter via USB,called :
[1971.271455] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci-hcd
[1971.452435] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2357, idProduct=0109,
bcdDevice= 2.00
[1971.452479] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[1971.452512] usb 3-1: Product: 802.11n NIC
[1971.452543] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[1971.452573] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
Now,the point is : how can I "tell" Devuan 5 to use this adapter with its
driver ? (I don't know if the proper driver is installed,but anyway,I have
enabled the Realtek entry inside the kernel and I have installed the
firmware-linux-free.
Something is missing because as soon as Devuan starts,it automatically
chooses the marvell driver and it associates to the bssid automatically.
Where does it take the information to configure everything ? In addition,it
creates the mlan0 interface automatically,based on the Marvell adapter and
not on the Realtek adapter :
# ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 27 bytes 3569 (3.4 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 27 bytes 3569 (3.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
mlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::292f:4509:ac77:e093 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 60:21:c0:e9:44:63 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1122 bytes 100742 (98.3 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 773 bytes 211774 (206.8 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
There is no way to change the values I want through the network-manager
applications.
I tried to look for the file wpa_supplicant.conf but I didn't find it.
--
Mario.