How can I find the USB wireless adapter into the dmesg log file?
- by AndreaNobili
I am pretty new in Linux (RaspBian for RaspBerry Pi but I think that there are not difference) and I have to install an USB wireless network adapter (the product is the TP-Link TL-WN725N, this one: http://www.tp-link.it/products/details/?model=TL-WN725N )
Now,
I think that this is not automatically recognized by my system because if I execute ifconfig command I obtain the following output:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:2a:9f:b0
inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:424 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:34195 (33.3 KiB) TX bytes:89578 (87.4 KiB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
So now it see only my ethernet network interface and not the wireless.
So I was thinkig to try to see into the dmesg, but I don't know what have I to see and how to select it into the dmesg output.
For example by the following command I can see the line of the dmesg log file relate to my ethernet port:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /var/log/dmesg |grep -i eth
[ 3.177620] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:2a:9f:b0
[ 18.030389] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
[ 19.642167] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
But what can I try to search for the USB wireless adapter?
Tnx
