usb_wifi_dongles

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**USB WiFi dongles**

All below BASH commands needs to be executed as user 'root'.\\

Sometimes the WiFi connection cant be established quick enough on boot and you run into problems if using a shared MySQL database for Kodi/XBMC.\\
To delay Kodi/XBMC at boot (asuming WiFi is on 'wlan0' interface):
<code>sed -i "s/start on started mountall/start on started mountall and started networking and net-device-up wlan0/" /etc/init/xbmc-preload.conf</code>

If your WiFi dongle is designated as 'wlan1' and you want to change to 'wlan0', you can alter in below file if exists:
<code>nano /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</code>

To see vendor/device id for connected USB devices use below command:
<code>lsusb</code>

**Vendor/device id "0bda:8179":**\\
Driver is already installed at "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko".\\
But needs below firmware:
<code>wget https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/raw/master/rtl8188eufw.bin -O /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin
echo "options r8188eu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0" > /etc/modprobe.d/r8188eu.conf</code>

**Vendor/device id "0df6:0077":**
<code>echo 'install 8192cu /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install 8192cu; /bin/echo "0df6 0077" >| /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rtl8192cu/new_id' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf
echo "options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0" >> /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf
echo "8192cu" >> /etc/modules</code>

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