Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-04-20, Benjamin Baier program...@netzbasis.de wrote: It's Advertised as an EP-N8508. It is most likely a rebrand, which uses the rtl8188cus (very low cost chip) This should be supported by the urtwn driver. Just need to recognize the USB device number. In this case it's idVendor

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-21 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Benjamin Baier wrote: It's Advertised as an EP-N8508. It is most likely a rebrand, which uses the rtl8188cus (very low cost chip) This should be supported by the urtwn driver. Just need to recognize the USB device number. In this case it's idVendor

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-21 Thread Liviu Daia
On 21 April 2014, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado i...@juanfra.info wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Benjamin Baier wrote: It's Advertised as an EP-N8508. It is most likely a rebrand, which uses the rtl8188cus (very low cost chip) This should be supported by the urtwn driver.

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-21 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Alan Corey alan01...@gmail.com wrote: I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point of a TVRO satellite dish. If I'd known it

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-20 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:23:06PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: So it does need a different driver, it's not just a matter of tweaking a device ID somewhere? Looking closer, it seems to be a run(4) variant. At least the vendor driver groups it with other run(4) devices. That doesn't mean it will

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-20 Thread Alan Corey
I didn't buy Ralink on purpose. I've had issues with other products from them and generally prefer Atheros. If you want, I'll stick it back in its padded envelope and send it to you to experiment on. I think I'd like it back someday but if it won't work under OpenBSD it's useless. I hope to know

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-20 Thread Benjamin Baier
It's Advertised as an EP-N8508. It is most likely a rebrand, which uses the rtl8188cus (very low cost chip) This should be supported by the urtwn driver. Just need to recognize the USB device number. In this case it's idVendor 0x148f idProduct 0x7601. This makes me wonder, if there is a method

Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-19 Thread Alan Corey
I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point of a TVRO satellite dish. If I'd known it was Ralink I wouldn't have bought it. So I plug it into my laptop running

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-19 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:12:23AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point of a TVRO satellite dish. If I'd known it was Ralink I

Re: Ralink mystery usb mini WiFi adapter

2014-04-19 Thread Alan Corey
On 4/19/14, Stefan Sperling s...@openbsd.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:12:23AM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: I just got a cheap USB WiFi adapter that I thought was a Realtek for some reason, turned out to be Ralink. I was interested in small because I want to mount it at the focal point of