[elrepo] D-Link DWA-140 on CentOS 5 disappearing

[Kostis Pangalos]

HI all

Yeah the adapter deinitely works on win7 and mac.

Alan, thing is that, I no longer have the appetite or time to mess
around trying to get "not compatible" hardware to be recognised by the
OS...
Had this happened 13 years ago when I started messing around with
Linux I would have gone down to kernel level patching and compiling
trying to get the basta** to work but now I just expect stuff to work
out of the box as I need it for app deployment.

I suppose I'll just have to tar things on a stick and deploy them via
win7 or my mac.
Pitty though.

I'll keep an eye out for developments on this issue.
Thanks for your help.


Cheers,
Kostis

On 27 June 2010 20:26, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On 27 June 2010 14:39, Kostis Pangalos <kostis.pub at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fingerprint is as follows irrespective of how I get the adapter
>> attached. (After cold boot or warm boot or already plugged in when PC
>> is first turned on)
>>
>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 07d1:3c0a D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N USB Adapter(rev.B2)
>
> See if you can find any references to the device (by its fingerprint)
> out in Google-search land . . .
>
> What puzzles me is that you did have it initially working with the
> ELRepo provided firmware and device driver. To my mind, that proves
> all three items (the DWA-140, the firmware and the driver) are
> working.
>
> I still have a feeling that this could be related to the comms v
> storage device issue and wonder if the usb_modeswitch package will
> help?
>
> Alan.
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