Wireless card TP-Link TL-WN-353GD

wireless card TP-Link TL-WN-353 GD on a debian linux, lenny[edit]

driver and wpa2 configuration

lspci shows

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)

driver isssues

first, my debian lenny (02/2010) loads the kernel module called 8180.ko

/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180.ko

this driver works, but the signal strengh is shown as not very stable. so i downloaded the proprietary driver.

what i got was:

rtl8185_linux_26.1031.1207.2009.release.tar.gz

after unpacking and entering the directory i had to type a "make" and a "make install" to install the new kernel module:

/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/r8185b.ko

now i had to make sure, that the correct kernel-module is loaded in boot-time.

so i put r8185b into /etc/modules

and to prevent the wrong kernel module to be loaded i hat to wipe out the line

[...]
/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180.ko
[...]

in the file

/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/modules.dep

warning: if you run the command depmod this line will be inserted into modules.dep again.

configuring wlan:

for wpa2 i had to create /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1

network={
	ssid="<your-ssid>"
	scan_ssid=01
	proto=WPA2
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        group=CCMP TKIP 
        priority
	psk=b91de39bff571eac2f1108132235423445123271a4c79d4db309b9f345234536a9ed5c
}

with the command wpa_passphrase you can create the encrypted passphrase for the config-file shown above.

and in /etc/network/interfaces

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

wireless card TP-Link TL-WN-353 GD on a debian linux, lenny[edit]

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