CentOS

Hi,

I'm trying to use a wifi dongle ASUS USB-AC54 Nano as a wireless connection on a Centos7 guest on a KVM virtualisation (host is a Centos 7).

All systems are up-to-date (sudo yum update).

lsusb on the guest finds the adapter:
# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13fe:4100 Kingston Technology Company Inc. Flash drive
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:184c ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

However, network manager odes not. "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found".

(Wired) network connections on guest are fine, however I need to use Wi-Fi for testing purposes.

# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.122.72 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255
inet6 fe80::770f:fab1:3ab7:9c2b prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 52:54:00:31:6a:ae txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 5508 bytes 9693396 (9.2 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 11 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 4458 bytes 410165 (400.5 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 69 bytes 3848 (3.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 69 bytes 3848 (3.7 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Any ideas?

Google says that adapter has an MT7610u chipset. There is a nice shiny new package in the ELRepo (third party yum repo) that supports some of those Mediatek chipsets but I do not think it has support for yours. You could try it but I don't hold out much hope of it working as it doesn't list your USB ids as supported. For vendor id 0x0b05 it only contains

modalias(usb:v0B05p17D3d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*)

Thanks, just found a typo, it's the USB-AC53 (not 54) with the rtl8822bu chipset... unfortunatly did not find this on the elrepo. Found some on github, however, I did not find a package that compiled successfully, they all seam to be prepared for debian, not centos.

Alternativley I could use a Netgear AC1200 Wifi USB Adapter (A6150) with the RTL8812BU chipset. not found on elrepo either and no successful compilations...
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0846:9055 NetGear, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Suggestions? Or should I try to get an older WiFi USB adapter that has better support on Centos?