Matti65

Today I was successful in getting my Vilros WiFI adapter to work with my KiwiSDR. I did the following:
- Put in the dongle in the USB port of the Kiwi.
- Use Putty to connect per SSH to my Kiwi (user=root; no pw)
- Execute one by one the following commands:
sudo apt-get install usbutils
sudo apt-get install iw tools
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
sudo apt-get install wavemon
- Then execute “lsusb” to get the name and the chipset of the adapter. I f.e. got the following result:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
- If your chipset cannot be identified by this output, you should additionally look on this page to query for the chipset of your adapter:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Special:RunQuery/Wireless_adapter_query
- Then look in this list if there exists a linux driver for your chipset:
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi#USB_Devices
- Go to the help page for your chipset. In my case it was “rtl819x”. There I found the hint, that I have to install the package “firmware-realtek”.
- So I had to put in the command "apt-get install firmware-realtek" in Putty.
- After completing the driver installation, send the command “lsmod” to see if the driver is installed. In my case the output was

(…)
rtl8192cu 52250 0
rtl_usb 8852 1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common 38293 1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi 54277 3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu
(…)

So everything seemed to be fine.
- Then put in the command “ifconfig -a” to see if the adapter is working. The output should have a “wlan0” section then.
- Next you should encrypt your WiFI passphrase by using this command:
wpa_passphrase „WiFi SSID“ „your ASCII passphrase” (without the “”)
The resulting value for “psk” (not”#psk”!) is the encrypted passphrase. Memorize this for the next step.
- Then you have to edit the file “interfaces” to configure your WiFi. Use this command: “sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces”
- You have to add these lines here:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "SSID" # without „“
wpa-psk “your encrypted pw” # see above

- Then Strg + O and Strg + X to save the file and quit the editor
- Next you have to activate your WiFi once with the command "sudo ifup wlan0" and everything should be fine.