RPI2 - compile Drivers for TP-LINK TL823N - adapter not recognized
Hi
I'm trying to get TP-LINK TL823N working on a Kali install on RPI2. Unfortunately the device is not automatically recognised by Linux.
The wifi adapter is available on device 005 - tested it with unplugging, running lsusb and plugging, running lsusb again.
Code:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2357:0109
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0603:0002 Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
IFconfig does not recognice wlan0 at all. Same with iwconfig
Code:
root@kali:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.178.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.178.255
inet6 fe80::587f:244d:e2a7:d6ab prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:27:eb:d1:21:be txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 18308 bytes 25146067 (23.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2210 bytes 264356 (258.1 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
root@kali:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
dmesg shows the following:
Code:
[ 2685.353252] usb 1-1.5: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 2692.247001] usb 1-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 2692.368328] usb 1-1.5: New USB device found, idVendor=2357, idProduct=0109
[ 2692.375239] usb 1-1.5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2692.382638] usb 1-1.5: Product: 802.11n NIC
[ 2692.386966] usb 1-1.5: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2692.391353] usb 1-1.5: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
On the TP link website there are drivers availabe for Linux but I am not able to compile these. I'm guessing due to missing Linux headers which i'm not able to install.
http://nl.tp-link.com/res/down/soft/...0315_Linux.zip
This zip contains a PDF file with instructions on how to install the drivers
So I did a WGET on the zip
unzipped the drivers to my homefolder (had some issues with the foldernames, used windows to unzip, re-zip the file and posted to my rpi kali home folder against using pscp transfer)
SO the PDF in the file states that I need to configure the makefile.c:
Code:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC), y) EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/)
ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH)
CROSS_COMPILE ?=
KVER := $(shell uname -r)
KSRC := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/build
MODDESTDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ INSTALL_PREFIX := endif
· KSRC is used to specify the kernel source path for driver compilation.
· CROSS_COMPILE is used to specify the toolchain.
· ARCH is used to specify the target platform's CPU architectures such as arm, mips, i386 and so on.
Unfortunately I have no clue what to adjust in here, so I just ran the make command
Code:
"NO SKRC,we will use default KSRC"
"******************************************"
make ARCH=armv7l CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/4.1.19-v7/build M=/root/Driver modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/4.1.19-v7/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:1696: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2
So i searched the internet on installing drivers and compiling these and found some informtaion that I would ened to install Linux headers first before being able to compile drivers. As you can see, this was not succesfull either. This issue is also desribed in https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...1-19-armel-!!! but unfortunately no closing answer provided yet.
Code:
root@kali:~/Driver# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.1.19-v7
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.1.19-v7'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.1.19-v7'
root@kali:~/Driver#
So brings me to the question;
Can someone guide me into the correct direction to get this wifi adapter working in this Linux distribution?
Am I taking the correct steps or should I do something else?
