After a bit of struggling, we finally managed to make the Micronext MN-WD552B USB dongle work on the RaspberryPi. I choose this dongle beacuse it’s tiny, and it was suggested by Farnell’s website. Unfortunately the driver for Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset provided with wheezy is not working so there’s a little bit of hacking to do.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to have a perfectly working WiFi RaspberryPi
- Buy your dongle 🙂
- Download a brand new wheezy. New is always better. Download it from here. I installed the 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip version.
- Install the brand new wheezy image on a brand new SD Card (or a used one, it really doesn’t matter because we are going to format it) following these instructions.
- Plug your raspberry to a monitor, a keyboard and an ethernet connection, power it on and login locally or via ssh
- Complete the initial setup of the RaspberryPi
- Download the fantastic python script made by MrEngman from here.
- Manually put the old driver into the RPi’s modprobe blacklist:
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
- add this line: blacklist rtl8192cu
- save the file
- reboot the system: sudo reboot
- Exec the MrEngamn’s script:
sudo bash install-rtl8188cus.sh
- Follow the instructions and reboot
- Exec the script again, as in step 8, this will make the RPi download all the updates
- Follow the instructions and reboot again
- THE END, now you finally have a 100% WiFi capable RaspberryPi!!!
I hope it will help! Bye Guys and happy prototyping!
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