USB Wi-Fi adapter for Raspberry Pi 4

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I have built a trail camera using a Raspberry Pi 4, a Hi Quality camera with a 8-50 mm zoom lens, a 20 amp hour power block running MotionEyes. It connects using the built in W-Fi adapter. I purchased a SimpleCom NW392 USB Wireless N WiFi Adapter and a TP-Link 16 db Yagi external antenna to replace the internal Wi-Fi adapter. My question is, how do I configure the external USB Wi-Fi adapter? MotionEyes supplies instructions for configuring the internal Wi-Fi adapter, but not an external adapter.

The SimpleCom web site shows drivers for Linux v4.3.0.4 and Linux v4.2.2.

Thanks for your help,
Charles Hart

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Hi Charles,

The first test I would do is use the command

 lsusb

in the Raspberry Pi terminal to see if the USB adapter is appearing as a connected device.

It’s not clear what Linux driver version will be the most suitable for the Raspberry Pi as it’s tied to the kernel version, I might need to do a bit more digging there and get back to you unless someone else is more familiar with Linux driver versions.

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This is the result that I get when connected to MotionEyes using Putty…

[root@meye-7bb3e694 ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:818b
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003

Charles

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Not motioneyes OS, but on my RPi 4, I plugged in an USB wifi, did not have to configure anything. Were you able to connect to a network with the adapter connected? May be try disabling internal wifi and connect with the adapter?

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simple lsusb gives me this:
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 152d:0562 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:7603 Microdia USB Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 093a:2530 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Gaming Mouse
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Highlighted the connected devices in bold
If the Wifi adapter is connected and recognized, it should be shown as such.

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See if this page will help with the set up

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