Hi,
I've been having all kinds of trouble finding a dual band USB WiFi
adapter that will work with Debian Wheezy and I hope someone here can
help. Our best (and pretty much last) hope is the TP-Link N900
TL-WDN4200. Using it successfully on Ubuntu 13.10, lsusb identifies the
chipset as
RT3573 Wireless Adapter (Ralink)
and iwconfig assigns it:
ra0 Ralink STA
lsmod reports that the adapter is using the rt5572sta driver.
However, when I insert it into a Debian machine - whether its my Intel
Galileo running a full Debian image or my own Ubuntu PC running a Debian
live USB session - I'm having no luck. Dmesg identifies it with only:
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
lsusb correctly sees it as:
ID 148f:3573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT3573 Wireless Adapter
but that's where the fun stops. Here's iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
iw list gives me this rather cryptic message:
nl80211 not found
and the only remotely relevant reference in lsmod is
ehci-pci
I've installed firmware-ralink and searched for an appropriate rt5572sta
package. I found an rpm for OpenSuse here:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/rt5572sta-common-2.6.1.3-6.3.noarch.rpm.15942-0.html
converted it to deb using alien and installed it, but there was no
change. (It was a long shot in any case.)
There is supposed to be a driver here:
http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/
but there's something wrong with their page and it doesn't actually
download (I've sent them an email for help).
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks so much!
