How to get D-link DWA-131 Wireless-N Nano USB Adapter work on CentOS 7?
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I am on CentOS 7. I have **D-link DWA-131 Wireless-N USB Nano *Hardware revision* E1** adapter. I have downloaded and compiled it's drivers from ftp://files.dlink.com.au/products/DWA-131/REV_E/Drivers/DWA-131_Linux_driver_v4.3.1.1.zip. After installing and inserting the module **8192eu.ko** my device is detected as **USB Ethernet**. How can i get it recognized as a wireless device, so that I can connect to a wireless network **abc** having password **12345678**.
result of **uname -a** is
Linux linux-centos 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20 20:32:50 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
result of **ifconfig -a** is
enp0s20u3: flags=4099 mtu 1500
ether 54:2a:a2:47:dd:f6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73 mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 7729 bytes 664831 (649.2 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 7729 bytes 664831 (649.2 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
p4p2: flags=4099 mtu 1500
ether f8:ca:b8:06:55:c0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
virbr0: flags=4099 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255
ether 52:54:00:1c:39:9e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
virbr0-nic: flags=4098 mtu 1500
ether 52:54:00:1c:39:9e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4163 mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::374e:5cb2:ec50:9c4d prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether 78:0c:b8:36:8e:31 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 122333 bytes 155288565 (148.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 84226 bytes 10510089 (10.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
**enp0s20u3** is my USB device. It only shows up when I load **8192eu.ko** using **modprobe** or **insmod**.
Device shown as wifi is 'internal wifi', but, the USB device is detected as USB Ethernet.

Asked by Manjeet
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Nov 23, 2017, 06:23 AM
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