# Belkin Wireless Dongle not working

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**Created:** [April 10, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/belkin-wireless-dongle-not-working/32542 "2013-04-10T00:04:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/belkin-wireless-dongle-not-working/32542/1 "2013-04-10T00:04:22Z")

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I have a Belkin N150 USB wifi dongle, and with all other Raspberry Pi distributions, it just works, including openelec.

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Looking to switch over to Plex, and I can't get the wifi adapter to work. The dmesg log shows:

```
[68.164424] r8712u: Firmware request failed
```

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and here is the output of lsusb:

```
upstairs:~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 050d:0264 Belkin Components
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 050d:945a Belkin Components F7D1101 v1 Basic Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188SU]
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
```

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I can see the correct firmware files in "/lib/firmware/rtlwifi", so I'm not sure what's going on here.

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```
upstairs:~ # cd /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
upstairs:/lib/firmware/rtlwifi # ls
LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt rtl8192cfwU.bin rtl8192defw.bin rtl8723fw.bin
rtl8188efw.bin rtl8192cfwU_B.bin rtl8192sefw.bin rtl8723fw_B.bin
rtl8192cfw.bin rtl8192cufw.bin rtl8712u.bin
upstairs:/lib/firmware/rtlwifi #
```

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Can anyone help troubleshoot this? I've tried the 0.1.35 and the 0.1.34 releases, both with the same result.

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Thanks!

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**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/belkin-wireless-dongle-not-working/32542/2 "2019-12-20T23:12:14Z")

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