Cannot use D-Link DWA131 ID 3319

What is the output of :

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

14.10 is EOL in July this year. You may find that an upgrade to Vivid helps, it will also lengthen support for your OS.

Hi

The output to sudo lshw -C network is:
   *-network
        description: Ethernet interface
        product: RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
        vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
        physical id: 6
        bus info: pci@0000:02:06.0
        logical name: eth0
        version: 10
        serial: 00:0c:76:af:8e:4b
        size: 100Mbit/s
        capacity: 1Gbit/s
        width: 32 bits
        clock: 66MHz
        capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp
mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
        configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169
driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=10.1.1.18 latency=64 link=yes
maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
        resources: irq:20 ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f7effe00-f7effeff
memory:f7ea0000-f7ebffff

On 06/04/15 18:11, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #264654 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/264654
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> What is the output of :
>
> sudo lshw -C network
>
> Thanks
>
> 14.10 is EOL in July this year. You may find that an upgrade to Vivid
> helps, it will also lengthen support for your OS.
>

According to the following 3 links

http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/in/2013-11-16-d-link-dwa-131-n300-usb-wifi-adapter

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/User:X64/Linux_kernel_wireless_device_support

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/246956

your wireless USB adapter is not supported by any Linux driver.

I suggest selling it and getting one that works out-of-the-box.

Wireless USB adapters are dirt cheap anyway....

Hello Mark

Thanks for your assistance.

Mark I actually checked the Ubuntu hardware guide before purchasing this
device thinking it was plug and play as did many others with similar
issues to what I reported.

DWA-131

rtl8192u

No

Yes

Yes

Is detected and works in 13.04

2013-08-03

This hardware guide is not exactly up to date and no one can tell that
there is not a variance in the DWA-131 they get in the box to what has
been reported as working fine. How can the purchaser know that their
DWA-131 is 330C or 3319? I mistakenly expected that over time more and
more hardware will be supported in Ubuntu not less and less. So DWA-131
once worked out of the box and now is dead as a DoDo? I have a small
pile of hardware purchased for use with Ubuntu that remain in their
packaging due to similar issues.

For example I used for years a Fussion TV card with Ubuntu and upgraded
to a dual tuner version for my MythTv box which was a PCIe version
listed as supported however mine had firmware that Ubuntu rejected
cold. It has never been used as was a Netgear PCI wireless card for
similar reasons.

The first link you provided to the Linux hardware guide says that "This
version of the DWA-131 is recognized by the kernel:" and "but currently
no driver is loaded automatically." This suggested from my
interpretation that you could configure Ubuntu to load a driver. Why
does it not state clearly - It Will Not Work With Ubuntu? The advise
seems to hangs in the breeze suggesting you can manually load a driver.

What the deal with RTL8192eu as opposed to the supported 8192cu? This
is very puzzling to non experts who expect a degree of plug in play
functionality or at least the opportunity to compile a driver. It
appears Ubuntu is going backwards where it is a lottery if your hardware
will work when connected to the OS. What happened to the idea of
hardware abstraction and universal service provision? There has to be
some fundamental architectural deficiency that makes Ubuntu so
problematic not supporting widely distributed hardware with so many
people left with obsolete hardware unless they revert to Windows or Mac.

D-Link say the device will work with Ubuntu 10.04 so does this mean that
8192eu.ko was not ported to 14.10? I have another wireless Asus N12 USB
purchased in 2011 which had to be whipped into working with 10.04 and
every time I have upgraded a PC in our home to a later version of Ubuntu
I test this device to see if it would work out of the box and it never
has. This is a very popular device so when will it be supported out of
the box? What is the technical impediment we am not seeing?

Your correct that the DWA-131 was not expensive however the 9 hours of
effort to make it work was. The machine where it was intended to be
used also has an excellent functioning quality on board sound card (ACL
850) which coincidentally will not play a single note in Ubuntu for no
apparent reason rendering the entire project dead in water due to
unexplained failure to support standard hardware. Another 14 hours was
sunk trying to get that working. I cannot get my head around how
hardware released in 2004 cannot be supported in Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04 or
14.04. At what point was support for this common device depreciated
assuming it must have worked at some stage? Here is the reference to
the open unresolved Sound issue.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+question/246681

Kind Regards

Anthony

On 06/04/15 21:37, Mark Rijckenberg wrote:
> Your question #264654 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/264654
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
> According to the following 3 links
>
> http://www.linux-hardware-guide.com/in/2013-11-16-d-link-dwa-131-n300
> -usb-wifi-adapter
>
> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/User:X64/Linux_kernel_wireless_device_support
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
> nettool/+question/246956
>
> your wireless USB adapter is not supported by any Linux driver.
>
> I suggest selling it and getting one that works out-of-the-box.
>
> Wireless USB adapters are dirt cheap anyway....
>

Hello

I Installed Ubuntu 10.04 and compiled the driver I recently received from D-Link rtl8192eu and immediately the device lit up providing blistering stable 300 MB connectivity.

One again I ask the question why as Ubuntu moves forward is it not backward compatible with devices that it previously supported? Why does my DWA-131 purchased in 2015 not work with the current version of Ubuntu and yet works so well with 10.04?

Surely it is not unreasonable to expect as Ubuntu is developed it is improved not depreciated? What we see is changes to the UI that no one asked for, and most do not like, whereas what we really want is performance and stability and improved plug and play support for devices.

I was unable to use perfectly good quality equipment with Ubuntu 14.10 that works perfectly well in version 10.04 both my sound device (Realtek ALC850) that could not play a note in 14.10 and my DWA-131 wireless. adapter.

Collectively I lost 30 hours of time tearing my hair out when all I needed to do was to downgrade.

I suggest it brings a new meaning to the term "downgrade".

The error I got when I compiled the rtl8192eu driver was that it could not find module 8192eu.ko so would it be possible to copy this to ubuntu 14.10 from a 10.04 installation to compile the driver with 14.10?

Why was 8192eu.ko removed from Ubuntu 14.10?

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