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The important part of this output is the line that reads
example Zyxel NWD2105, this reads
chip found inside Zyxel USB wireless adapter. It's this company's firmware that must be
installed for the wireless adapter to work.
If you couldn't find anything using usb as a search term, you can try the same command using
TIP
the search term firmware, wlan or wireless. If you still can't see anything useful, type
lsusb for a list of all USB devices connected to the system.
Using the manufacturer name from
apt-cache
adapter, the
apt-cache search ralink
If
apt-cache
ware packages in the following list. Don't worry if you install the wrong one—any firmware
can be quickly uninstalled using
does no harm. The following wireless firmware packages are available in the recommended
Raspbian distribution on the Raspberry Pi:
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P A R T I
search tool introduced earlier in this chapter. For the example Zyxel NWD2015
command would be:
apt-cache
fails to find the firmware, you may need to make a guess based on the firm-
atmel-firmware—for devices based on the Atmel AT76C50X chipset
firmware-atheros—for devices based on Atheros chipsets
firmware-brcm80211—for devices based on Broadcom chipsets
firmware-intelwimax—for devices based on Intel's WiMAX chipsets
firmware-ipw2x00—for Intel Pro Wireless adapters (including 2100, 2200 and 2915)
firmware-iwlwifi—for other Intel wireless adapters (including 3945, 4965 and the
5000 series)
firmware-ralink—for devices based on Ralink chipsets
firmware-realtek—for devices based on Realtek chipsets
zd1211-firmware—for devices based on the ZyDAS 1211 chipset
C O N N E C T I N G T H E B O A R D
Manufacturer
, which is the company that makes the actual
Ralink
, search for the firmware files using the
dmesg
, and having multiple firmware packages
apt-get remove
. In the case of the