USB is a very complex interface and there are always devices which will not properly work in VirtualBox guests. If you can, please don't pass that USB device into the guest but let it drive by the host and use the normal VirtualBox networking functions to access the network over the USB network card.
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This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on Atheros AR9271 and AR7010 chipsets on Debian systems.
Contents
- Atheros AR9271, AR7010 devices (ath9k_htc)
ath9k_htc is a Linux kernel driver supporting Atheros 802.11n USB chipsets, introduced at Linux 2.6.35. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.
AR7010-based devices (e.g. Netgear WNDA3200, TP-Link TL-WN821N v3) operate in USB mass storage mode by default. Since Linux 2.6.39, the driver sends the necessary command to enable wireless LAN operation.1
Arch Linux Ath9k
Firmware is required, which can be provided by installing the firmware-atheros package. Open firmware for this driver is also available in the firmware-ath9k-htc package starting from Buster.
Atheros AR9170-based 802.11 draft-n devices are supported by carl9170.
Installation
Add a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:
Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-atheros package:
Connect the device to your system. The ath9k_htc kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices.
Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.
Supported Devices
The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.
The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo ath9k_htc in Debian 3.16 (3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1) kernel images.
See Also
/open_firmware - Open firmware for ath9k_htc
carl9170 - Atheros AR9170 devices
How to use a WiFi interface
Htc Driver Usb Download
External Links
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc
CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless
'ath9k_htc: Handle storage devices' - git.kernel.org - linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/commitdiff (1)