cquilliam asked me a question via PM and thought I would post an answer here.
Quote:you mentioned that you picked up the Zonet wireless to replace the Zotac's wifi card. I was curious as to how you disabled the Zotac's wifi card? Did you have to open up the machine to take it out, or is there a setting in the bios? I couldn't find anything there for it. As well, you said you did a few tweaks, I was wondering if you remembered what they were.
Because I had compiled and used the compat wireless module (ath9k) to get improved reception with the internal card this module has to be blacklisted if you want to use a diffeent wireless adapter (USB). I cant be sure if you people that didnt use the compat wireless driver have the same module name but I suspect you do.
Code:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
add ath9k at the bottom
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To see what the problem with the new adapter you can type (If you boot with it plugged in)
Code:
dmesg |grep firmware
That should show you the error with the new adapter. It will try to load a non existing firmware /lib/firmware/RTL8192SE/rtl8192sfw.bin
To get the correct module loaded you will have to move or find (download link below if you dont have it) a file and create a directory.
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The new module that will be loaded will be called r8192s_usb
after install you can verify by typing
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The new firmware filename is rtl8192sfw.bin
I already had this file in a different location. /lib/firmware/RTL8192SE
If you dont have it I found a place where you can download it. (this file is an older version than what I have by a few months, Shouldn't be a problem)
Download at your own risk.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37238913/r...009.tar.gz
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Create a directory called RTL8192SU
Code:
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU
copy the rtl8192sfw.bin file into the new directory.
Code:
cp [b]/location/of/firmware/file[/b] /lib/firmware/RTL8192SU
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Code:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Code:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Wired Interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
# The primary network interface
# Wireless
#auto wlan0
auto wlan1
iface wlan1 inet static <--------This is my static IP. You dont need these 4 lines if you dont want a static IP
address 192.168.1.106
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-ssid [b]your ssid name[/b]
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN WPA
wpa-pairwise CCMP TKIP
wpa-group CCMP TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk [b]your wpa2 key[/b]
wireless-channel 1
wireless-mode managed
Some of this assumes you have or have had the proper setup for wireless already. The XCI script will have the option to enable the wireless and these instructions will be relevant. If not, then you are on your own.
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Now, With all that being said you can simply try the built-in card with the bleeding-edge compat wireless drivers (see previous post). It works reasonable well (much better than the current kernel driver). It will do medium bitrate HD without the buffering message.
