#Linux lite does not see edimax usb wifi drivers
#Linux lite does not see edimax usb wifi driver

I have not experimented with other USB Wifi Adapters using the same or other chips/drivers. I have 6 BeagleBones (4 ver A5 and 2 ver A6) - behavior is the same on all of these Beaglebones.Īlso have 4 DWA-125 Rev A2 USB adapters - behavior is the same on all of these. Length of USB extension cable doesn't seem to matter (at least between 1ft and 12ft - haven't tried anything below 1ft.) I am running the Angstrom distro - and I find the same issue on all three of last BB releases (4/22. I have done 100s of hours of Cloud9 development using this setup and no problems with Wifi whatsoever. Same exact symptoms that you are reporting if I plug the DWA-125 directly into the USB port on the BeagleBone.īUT if I plug the adapter into a USB extension cable and then plug the extension cable into the BeagleBone USB port, everything works fine. Specifically I am using a DLINK DWA-125 (HW Rev A2) which is based on the rt3070 chip. I've had a similar problem with my BeagleBones using another wifi adapter using the rt2800usb driver.

#Linux lite does not see edimax usb wifi driver

I'm hoping not to have to compile a new driver because I haven't had much success with that!

#Linux lite does not see edimax usb wifi drivers

I'm guessing that the second problem might be connected with power management, so I might try turning that off in /etc/rc.local.īut does anyone have any thoughts on how I might get the wifi to come up reliably on boot? I'm running the BeagleBone headless with no Ethernet (it's on a robot) so it's important I get this fixed!įYI, I'm using the default drivers - lsmod gives: Module Size Used by In order to try to address point 1), I put the following in /etc/rc.local: nohup sh -c 'ifdown wlan0 & ifup wlan0'īut it hasn't seemed to help much. The /etc/network/interfaces file includes: auto wlan0

The interface sometimes goes down again, especially when not used for a while. It comes up successfully about one in three attempts. The wlan0 interface doesn't always come up when booting the device. I've configured /etc/network/interfaces and the wifi works, BUT:

I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on a BeagleBone with an Edimax EW-7711UAn wifi adapter plugged into the USB port.