About a month ago, I purchased a Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter for GNU /
Linux (TPE-N150USB) and installed it on a mac book pro running trisquel 6.0
following the instructions on the thinkpenguin.com website
(https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb).
The card worked immediately as soon as I copied the firmware files to
/lib/firmware/
Today I received another identical USB Adapter and tried installing it on my
wife's computer in the same way, but could not get it to work. I have
restarted the computer to no avail.
Although the mac book pro's are not exactly the same (one is about a year
newer than the other) I don't see there are many differences aside from RAM
and processor.
Trisquel was installed in exactly the same way for both computers.
I tried blacklisting the b43 firmware thinking it might be causing a conflict
(which I did not have to do with the first computer): echo blacklist b43 |
sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-b43.conf
After doing this I just cannot see the option to enable or disable wireless
networking anymore, but nothing else seems to have changed.
typing sudo lsusb I can see:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Which I think is the Penguin USB Wifi adapter.
Typing iwconfig I get the following:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Does anyone know how I can get the wifi adapter to work? :'(
Thank you!
