USB wifi dongle and retropie

[Donkbot]

I bought a Foktech AC600 USB wifi dongle (linux compatible apparently) so I could connect my rasberry pie to my network. However, when I goto set the wifi region it says that no wireless interface has been found. I've searched all over for a guide on installing a wifi dongle on retopie, but they all start with setting the wifi region. I'm expecting to install some drivers or something, but being a total newbie to retropie and linux in general I have no idea how.

Thanks for any help

[IanDaemon]

What model Pi are you using? Wifi may be built-in thus not needing a dongle.

Why the double topics?

[Donkbot]

oops, my mistake, didn't see topic appear so reposted. Can remove now

I have a raspebery 2 i think, thats whats written on the board

[IanDaemon]

@Donkbot https://www.electronicshub.org/setup-wifi-raspberry-pi-2-using-usb-dongle/#:~:text=Setting up WiFi on Raspberry,adapter like a WiFi Dongle.

Does this help?

[IanDaemon]

Sounds like you could use dmesg | more to check things out, but then you still have to configure the dongle.

[Donkbot]

Thanks, I'll have a go, presumeably there is a way of accessing the linux CLI from retropie

[IanDaemon]

The terminal? Just press F4 or "quit 'emulation station'" if you're using that. Where are you?

Exit to command line/terminal.

[mitu]

Although the vendor page says there's no Linux support, it looks like it's using the RTL 8821CU chipset, so it might work by installing the driver from https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU.

[Donkbot]

I exited emustation and dropped into a CLI. entered "dmesg | more " and it returned Command not found

I'm in the UK

@mitu

Really? just checked the amazon page where I bought it and your right, that'll teach me not to read the specs carefully

So im assuming a supported dongle would be pretty much plug & play?

[mitu]

@Donkbot said in USB wifi dongle and retropie:

I exited emustation and dropped into a CLI. entered "dmesg | more " and it returned Command not found

You need to leave spaces around the pipe character (|).

So im assuming a supported dongle would be pretty much plug & play?

If it's supported by the Linux kernel, then yes.

[Donkbot]

Thought I has done that, anyway working now.

Looks like the device is being recognised, I can see:

usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor-Obda, idProduct=c811, bcdDevice= 2.00
usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-1.2: Product: 802.11ac NIC
usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Realtek
usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 123456

[Donkbot]

Do I still need to install I a driver I wonder? That guide seems to go straight onto configuring the wifi (which I thought could be done through retropie-config)

[Donkbot]

Also, that driver on githib doesn't appear to have any releases. Am I going to have to build the project first?

[mitu]

@Donkbot said in USB wifi dongle and retropie:

Am I going to have to build the project first?

There are installation instructions (using dkms) on the project page - there's no need for a 'release'.