Headers to build WiFi driver

  1. It was working to download the update. Immediately after the update, the system rebooted, and it ceased working. It not only ceased working, it no longer shows up as a wireless device in the OSMC app’s network section.
  2. I tried swapping USB ports on my Pi2 with my remote. The remote works fine on either port, while the TEW-804UB works on neither.
  3. I plugged in the TEW-804UB into a Win10 laptop, where it was quickly detected and was able to connect to my network.

So, at this point, I am 99.9999% certain it was the OSMC update that is the problem.

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None of my details have changed since the original posting… but…

Problem: The update from early/mid-June 2017 is no longer compatible with my TrendNET TEW-804UB 802.11 USB adapter.

What I was doing: Things previously worked fine. Last update was somewhere in March. I ran the update roughly 1 week before this posting, and afterwards the device does not function with OSMC on my Pi2. It does function on other devices. Changing ports on the Pi2/OSMC box does not fix.

Replicate: Plug in a TEW-804UB on the current version of OSMC. It is not functional.

Device: Raspberry Pi 2.

Peripherals: TrendNET TEW-804UB.

Issue is definitely new to OSMC, somewhere after March 2017.

Plugging the Pi2 in to a wired connection and SSH’ing in, I am able to retrieve this from dmesg when I plug in the TEW-804UB:

[   39.613343] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[   39.744615] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=20f4, idProduct=804b
[   39.744633] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   39.744641] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
[   39.744647] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[   39.744654] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

Checking ifconfig, and it only shows eth0. It shows no wlan devices.

Is the driver loaded? Would have helped if you would have uploaded the log files grab-logs -A and also output of lsmod | paste-log