Trying to setup wifi on rasberry pi 2

Hi All,

I am trying to setup osmc on a raspberry pi 2, didn’t realize that realtek adapters might not work, but i cant seem to find any obvious errors on my logs like i have seen on the forum before. Pls do help me

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0xf00
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.122-2-osmc (root@osmc) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 4 02:39:56 UTC                                                                                                                                             2020
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 8 MiB at 0x2f800000
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 196608
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 1728 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 196608 pages, LIFO batch:63
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0xb0/0x4cc with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 16 pages/cpu s36364 r8192 d20980 u65536
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s36364 r8192 d20980 u65536 alloc=16*4096
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 [0] 2 [0] 3
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 194880
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: coherent_pool=1M bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=1920 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=1080 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 smsc95xx.                                                                                                                                            macaddr=B8:27:EB:CF:F5:7B vc_mem.mem_base=0x3ec00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000  root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait quiet                                                                                                                                             osmcdev=rbp2
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 753364K/786432K available (9216K kernel code, 592K rwdata, 2136K rodata, 3072K init, 830K bss, 24876K reserv                                                                                                                                            ed, 8192K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
                   vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
                   fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
                   vmalloc : 0xb0800000 - 0xff800000   (1264 MB)
                   lowmem  : 0x80000000 - 0xb0000000   ( 768 MB)
                   modules : 0x7f000000 - 0x80000000   (  16 MB)
                     .text : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   (10208 kB)
                     .init : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   (3072 kB)
                     .data : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   ( 593 kB)
                      .bss : 0x(ptrval) - 0x(ptrval)   ( 831 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 24573 entries in 73 pages
[    0.000000] rcu: Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000]  Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 19.20MHz (phys).
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x46d987e47, max_idle_ns: 440795202767 ns
[    0.000011] sched_clock: 56 bits at 19MHz, resolution 52ns, wraps every 4398046511078ns
[    0.000027] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 52ns
[    0.000329] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.000356] console [tty0] enabled
[    0.000414] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 38.40 BogoMIPS (lpj=192000)
[    0.000436] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.000854] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.000878] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.002079] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.002763] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.002778] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 15, mpidr 80000f00
[    0.060157] Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x10003c
[    0.080139] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.120247] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.200940] CPU1: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.200954] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 15, mpidr 80000f01
[    0.281065] CPU2: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.281078] CPU2: thread -1, cpu 2, socket 15, mpidr 80000f02
[    0.361239] CPU3: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.361253] CPU3: thread -1, cpu 3, socket 15, mpidr 80000f03
[    0.361419] smp: Brought up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[    0.361435] SMP: Total of 4 processors activated (153.60 BogoMIPS).
[    0.361442] CPU: All CPU(s) started in HYP mode.
[    0.361449] CPU: Virtualization extensions available.
[    0.362611] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.376933] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 2 part 30 variant 7 rev 5
[    0.377482] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.377513] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.378367] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.379666] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.383835] DMA: preallocated 1024 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.389052] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[    0.389386] audit: type=2000 audit(0.380:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[    0.390081] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.390133] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.390487] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[    0.390498] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[    0.390735] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[    0.394040] bcm2835-mbox 3f00b880.mailbox: mailbox enabled
[    0.411240] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Attached to firmware from 2020-03-10 16:00, variant start_x
[    0.421287] raspberrypi-firmware soc:firmware: Firmware hash is d5afe412e364adbdafc0394ac65e674091a56473
[    0.470815] bcm2835-dma 3f007000.dma: DMA legacy API manager at (ptrval), dmachans=0x1
[    0.472993] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.473312] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.473390] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.473554] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.475215] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[    0.584015] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
[    0.584130] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.584401] FS-Cache: Loaded
[    0.584683] CacheFiles: Loaded
[    0.597245] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.598395] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 6144 bytes)
[    0.598440] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.598556] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.598746] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[    0.598946] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.599013] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.599319] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.600325] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.600336] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.600344] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.600351] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.733060] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a7 PMU driver, 5 counters available
[    0.735470] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.735845] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=18 bucket_order=4
[    0.747863] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[    0.748641] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.748682] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.748690] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.748713] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.756223] Key type asymmetric registered
[    0.756239] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    0.756345] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[    0.756583] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.756974] io scheduler bfq registered (default)
[    0.759571] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: FB found 1 display(s)
[    0.823132] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[    0.862939] bcm2708_fb soc:fb: Registered framebuffer for display 0, size 1920x1080
[    0.865496] bcm2835-rng 3f104000.rng: hwrng registered
[    0.865882] vc-mem: phys_addr:0x00000000 mem_base=0x3ec00000 mem_size:0x40000000(1024 MiB)
[    0.866671] vc-sm: Videocore shared memory driver
[    0.882622] brd: module loaded
[    0.894583] loop: module loaded
[    0.895525] Loading iSCSI transport class v2.0-870.
[    0.896733] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    0.896895] usbcore: registered new interface driver lan78xx
[    0.896976] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[    0.897003] dwc_otg: version 3.00a 10-AUG-2012 (platform bus)
[    0.924960] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: base=(ptrval)
[    1.125287] Core Release: 2.80a
[    1.125307] Setting default values for core params
[    1.125343] Finished setting default values for core params
[    1.325714] Using Buffer DMA mode
[    1.325726] Periodic Transfer Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    1.325733] Multiprocessor Interrupt Enhancement - disabled
[    1.325743] OTG VER PARAM: 0, OTG VER FLAG: 0
[    1.325759] Dedicated Tx FIFOs mode
[    1.326414] WARN::dwc_otg_hcd_init:1074: FIQ DMA bounce buffers: virt = af914000 dma = 0xef914000 len=9024
[    1.326454] FIQ FSM acceleration enabled for :
               Non-periodic Split Transactions
               Periodic Split Transactions
               High-Speed Isochronous Endpoints
               Interrupt/Control Split Transaction hack enabled
[    1.326469] dwc_otg: Microframe scheduler enabled
[    1.326551] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:457: FIQ on core 1
[    1.326566] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:458: FIQ ASM at 80748d34 length 36
[    1.326580] WARN::hcd_init_fiq:497: MPHI regs_base at b0810000
[    1.326611] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: DWC OTG Controller
[    1.326658] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    1.326715] dwc_otg 3f980000.usb: irq 56, io mem 0x00000000
[    1.326766] Init: Port Power? op_state=1
[    1.326775] Init: Power Port (0)
[    1.327175] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002, bcdDevice= 4.19
[    1.327191] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    1.327203] usb usb1: Product: DWC OTG Controller
[    1.327215] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.19.122-2-osmc dwc_otg_hcd
[    1.327226] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 3f980000.usb
[    1.328137] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.328222] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    1.329077] dwc_otg: FIQ enabled
[    1.329085] dwc_otg: NAK holdoff enabled
[    1.329092] dwc_otg: FIQ split-transaction FSM enabled
[    1.329108] Module dwc_common_port init
[    1.329561] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    1.329866] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    1.330410] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbtouchscreen
[    1.331248] bcm2835-wdt bcm2835-wdt: Broadcom BCM2835 watchdog timer
[    1.331530] bcm2835-cpufreq: min=600000 max=900000
[    1.333115] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    1.333120] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    1.333552] sdhost-bcm2835 3f202000.mmc: could not get clk, deferring probe
[    1.333726] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    1.334388] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[    1.334512] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    1.334808] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.334815] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.335681] vchiq: vchiq_init_state: slot_zero = (ptrval), is_master = 0
[    1.337476] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[    1.347149] [vc_sm_connected_init]: end - returning 0
[    1.348042] bcm2835_vc_sm_cma_probe: Videocore shared memory driver
[    1.348054] [vc_sm_connected_init]: start
[    1.348513] [vc_sm_connected_init]: installed successfully
[    1.348883] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[    1.348914] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.349049] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    1.349164] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[    1.349890] registered taskstats version 1
[    1.349911] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[    1.351203] Key type encrypted registered
[    1.357772] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: cts_event_workaround enabled
[    1.357874] 3f201000.serial: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x3f201000 (irq = 81, base_baud = 0) is a PL011 rev2
[    1.369718] sdhost: log_buf @ (ptrval) (ef913000)
[    1.415262] mmc0: sdhost-bcm2835 loaded - DMA enabled (>1)
[    1.416583] of_cfs_init
[    1.416719] of_cfs_init: OK
[    1.424633] Freeing unused kernel memory: 3072K
[    1.444978] Run /init as init process
[    1.495852] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    1.499036] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa
[    1.510244] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SS32G 29.7 GiB
[    1.512574]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
[    1.555465] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501
[    1.642659] random: fast init done
[    1.722533] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    1.736738] fsck: E2fsck run: /bin/e2fsck -p -C 0 /dev/mmcblk0p2
[    1.737022] fsck: Filesystem UUID: 100e7a61-56be-436e-a6f1-64087c45c08c
[    1.737321] fsck: /dev/mmcblk0p2: clean, 44419/1929536 files, 567336/7709696 blocks
[    1.765268] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg
[    1.765430] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101
[    2.005544] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514, bcdDevice= 2.00
[    2.005561] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    2.006326] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    2.006429] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected
[    2.325360] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg
[    2.455835] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00, bcdDevice= 2.00
[    2.455862] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[    2.459093] smsc95xx v1.0.6
[    2.549991] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:cf:f5:7b
[    2.645401] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[    2.776189] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=f179, bcdDevice= 0.00
[    2.776215] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    2.776228] usb 1-1.3: Product: 802.11n
**[    2.776240] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Realtek**
**[    2.776252] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 1CBFCE807671**
**[    3.295406] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg**
**[    3.433401] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=4037, idProduct=2804, bcdDevice= 1.10**
**[    3.433428] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0**
**[    3.433440] usb 1-1.2: Product: 2.4G Composite Devic**
**[    3.443378] input: 2.4G Composite Devic as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:4037:2804.0001/input                                                                                                                                            /input0**
**[    3.506682] hid-generic 0003:4037:2804.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [2.4G Composite Devic] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.                                                                                                                                            2/input0**
**[    3.517121] input: 2.4G Composite Devic Mouse as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:4037:2804.0002                                                                                                                                            /input/input1**
**[    3.517907] input: 2.4G Composite Devic Consumer Control as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:403                                                                                                                                            7:2804.0002/input/input2**
**[    3.585802] input: 2.4G Composite Devic System Control as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:4037:                                                                                                                                            2804.0002/input/input3**
**[    3.586216] hid-generic 0003:4037:2804.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [2.4G Composite Devic] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/i                                                                                                                                            nput1**
**[    4.346250] systemd[1]: System time before build time, advancing clock.**
**[    4.419924] NET: Registered protocol family 10**
**[    4.422146] Segment Routing with IPv6**
**[    4.472805] systemd[1]: systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYP                                                                                                                                            TSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid)**
**[    4.474062] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm.**
**[    4.501533] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <grogu>.**
**[    4.933004] systemd[1]: File /lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service:12 configures an IP firewall (IPAddressDeny=any), but                                                                                                                                             the local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling.**
**[    4.933042] systemd[1]: Proceeding WITHOUT firewalling in effect! (This warning is only shown for the first loaded unit using IP                                                                                                                                             firewalling.)**
**[    5.224861] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)**
**[    5.375010] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)**
**[    5.375738] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Audit Socket.**
**[    5.376508] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)**
[    5.377170] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
[    5.377832] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.
[    5.378654] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
[    5.379289] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Huge Pages File System being skipped.
[    5.832385] systemd-journald[158]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1
[    9.425728] Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol.
[    9.446922] gpio-4 (onewire@0): enforced open drain please flag it properly in DT/ACPI DSDT/board file
[    9.450010] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[    9.475397] rc_core: IR keymap rc-lirc not found
[    9.475416] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[    9.480642] rc rc0: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver@8/rc/rc0
[    9.481065] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver gpio_ir_recv registered at minor = 0, raw IR receiver, no transmitter
[    9.481430] input: gpio_ir_recv as /devices/platform/ir-receiver@8/rc/rc0/input4
[    9.481562] gpiomem-bcm2835 3f200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x3f200000
[    9.516270] videodev: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    9.546897] bcm2835_mmal_vchiq: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    9.589467] bcm2835_codec: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    9.615554] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video10
[    9.615647] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Loaded V4L2 decode
[    9.623805] bcm2835_v4l2: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    9.625002] snd_bcm2835: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[    9.625499] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video11
[    9.625556] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Loaded V4L2 encode
[    9.640652] bcm2835_audio soc:audio: card created with 8 channels
[   10.259746] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Device registered as /dev/video12
[   10.259803] bcm2835-codec bcm2835-codec: Loaded V4L2 isp
[   10.449867] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[   10.505798] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[   11.085888] input: lircd as /devices/virtual/input/input5
[   11.965759] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xCDE1
[   12.240336] w1_master_driver w1_bus_master1: w1_search: max_slave_count 64 reached, will continue next search.
[   12.260130] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   12.298570] random: crng init done
[   12.298587] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[   16.333545] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30

Hi,

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like your wifi dongle is supported and their doesn’t appear to be any linux drivers:

Thanks Tom.

these are reported to work for that chipset but i dont own one of these usb wifi adapters, please report back if they work :slight_smile:

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