On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:05 AM, John Pilkington <[email protected]> wrote: > I just installed an SL7 box for my grandson. Internet connection was easy > with a direct cable to the BT-supplied hub. On trying with a Netgear usb > wireless dongle, dmesg showed that it was recognised but there was no > further action. > > Booting the elrepo 3.18 kernel gave an immediate connection using the ar5523 > interface driver. I would prefer to use the standard kernel but I'm not > clear what needs to be done to get this (quite old) device working. > > Suggestions appreciated. Thanks. > > John P
Can you post the output of 'lsusb'? Then we can see the vendor:device IDs of your network device. Akemi
