Samsung Wireless Lan Adapter Software

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Samsung Wireless LAN Adapter Driver? I have a 2009 Wireless LAN Adapter for my Samsung LN46B750 LCD TV. I would like to connect the usb adapter to my PC to use as a WLAN adapter but when I connect it it asks me for the driver and it can not find it automatically online.I've looked everywhere for a driver but was unsuccessful. WIS09ABGN is not a TV, it is a Samsung network IEEE 801.11a/b/g/N USB adaptor for blue Ray (REALTK that makes Linksys and Belklin). It destroyed my system too.

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Posted by Setu in Home Entertainment, How Tos on Mar 14th, 2012 Comments

This is a guest post by Rajnish Jain. Rajnish is a product development enthusiast having around 12.5 years of experience. He enjoys solving complex technical problems and has worked on wide range of technologies including Open Source frameworks, Unix (shell scripting) & embedded device programming.

When you purchase a Samsung Smart TV (UA40D5500RR, for example), depending on the model, it may or may not support inbuilt Wi-Fi function. If it doesn’t, then Samsung recommends using WIS09ABGN USB WiFi adapter to let your TV connect to a Wireless router. Samsung has priced this USB adapter at a very huge cost (around INR 6,000) and any other adapter is not recognized by the TV. WTF?

I tried not to fall prey to this monopolistic approach by the company and put myself on work to find out a hack so that any Wi-Fi USB adapter is accepted by the TV. I found this wonderful link which helped a lot.

DISCLAIMER: The author of this article & woikr are not responsible for any damage/malfunction caused to the TV by following the instructions written below. Please continue at your own risk.

Few facts first:

  1. WIS09ABGN uses a chipset which is RT2870. This manufacturer of this chipset is Ralink Technologies.
  2. The Samsung Smart TVs internally run Linux OS (which version, which variant is immaterial for this post here).
  3. Every USB device has these two properties (apart from many others):
    • VID – vendor identification
    • PID – product identification
    • Samsung TVs have built-in intelligence that if the Wi-Fi adapter that’s plugged in doesn’t have Samsung specific VID/PID values, the TV will reject it.
  4. Samsung specific VID/PID values that the TV is expecting are:
    • VID: 04E8
    • PID: 2018
  5. I found this info (and the chipset info) here.
  6. The same page (http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Samsung_WIS09ABGN) tells us that the WIS09ABGN is running rt2870sta driver based on Linux.
  7. To be able to use any Wi-Fi USB adapter with Samsung TV, all you need to do is change that USB device’s VID/PID values to 04E8 : 2018 (Values assigned to Samsung Electronics Co.)

So, to begin with, we need a USB adapter which is based on Ralink’s RT2870 chipset. A quick search on Google and Ifound this one: Edimax EW-7718Un. I could find this one on ebay.in for INR 999/- and quickly ordered it.

Upon receiving the Edimax dongle, I started towards modifying the required values. These values reside on EEPROM (e2p) of the chipset, so changing them means you need to issue commands that modify the values on e2p. However, e2p ioctl is generally not available by default, so you will need to modify the driver code, compile it, and then change the values. This is explained below.

We now already know that we need to deal with Linux OS. So, we need a Linux box wherein our USB adapter can be plugged in and its properties can be seen and modified.

For this, instead of looking for a Linux based box, or creating a new partition in my laptop’s hard drive, I chose to go in for USB flash drive based environment. That is, without changing any configuration of my Windows XP based laptop, I can get a new OS to play around with.

  1. Start your Windows based computer.
  2. Plugin a USB flash drive into it.
  3. Follow the instructions at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download and make your USB drive bootable with ubuntu, preferably version 10.04.
  4. Once the flash drive is ready, restart your computer, change the boot sequence in BIOS so that it boots from the USB drive and you will get into a new world of ubuntu.
  5. Once the system comes up, plug in your USB adapter, open the command terminal and type:
    1. # lsusb
    2. You should be able to figure out this string for your Edimax EW-7718Un adapter:
    3. These are the VID/PID values assigned to this USB device. And this is the task in hand – to replace these values with 04E8:2018.
  6. Plug out the adapter.
  7. Now is the time to first download the relevant driver. Open Mozilla Firefox browser (which comes installed by default with ubuntu), and download the driver from this location:
    1. You can enter any name and e-mail address in the boxes that appear on this link. Why are we downloading the driver? Because, to change the VID/PID values on EEPROM of the USB adapter, we will need to issue the following commands:
      • # iwpriv ra0 e2p 208=04E8
      • # iwpriv ra0 e2p 20A=2018
    2. But by default the e2p ioctl is missing for us. So, we will customize the driver code to introduce e2p ioctl and then the above command will do us the trick.
      NOTE: If the above sequence of commands (with USB adapter plugged-in) works for you then you are done. You don’t need to follow the rest of the tutorial.
  8. Un-package the driver in a folder, say DRIVER_ROOT. Make the following changes to driver code:
    1. # cd <DRIVER_ROOT>/os/linux and open config.mk file.
      # Support ATE function
      # Support Wpa_Supplicant
      # Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
    2. While in the same folder, open usb_main_dev.c file and add this code:
      MODULE_LICENSE(“GPL”).
      It should now look like this:

      MODULE_AUTHOR(“Paul Lin <paul_lin@ralinktech.com>”);
      MODULE_DESCRIPTION(“RT2870 Wireless Lan Linux Driver”);
      MODULE_LICENSE(“GPL”);
      #ifdef CONFIG_STA_SUPPORT
      #ifdef MODULE_VERSION
      MODULE_VERSION(STA_DRIVER_VERSION);
      #endif
      #endif // CONFIG_STA_SUPPORT //

  9. Now we are ready to compile the driver code. You need the relevant compiler and helper tools and libraries for doing so. On the command terminal, issue these commands:
    • # sudo apt-get update
    • # sudo apt-get upgrade
    • # sudo apt-get install build-essential
    • # sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
  10. While in DRIVER_ROOT, issue the following commands:
    • # sudo make
    • # sudo make install
    • # sudo rmmod rt2870sta
    • # sudo rmmod rt2800usb
    • # sudo rmmod rt2x00usb
    • # sudo rmmod rt2800lib
    • It may happen that the last 4 commands don’t do anything, or print a warning like “driver not found”. I don’t remember the exact warning message, but this means that we are trying to remove a module (rmmod) that doesn’t exist. Double check that no ralink specific module is now in the memory:
    • # lsmod grep rt
    • You shouldn’t see any of the modules mentioned in the last 4 commands above.
  11. Now, load your custom driver module in the kernel:
    • # sudo su
    • # insmod <DRIVER_ROOT>/os/linux/rt3070sta.ko
    • At this stage, if you insert your USB adapter and watch, the e2p specific ioctl will be listed.
  12. Now, plugin your USB adapter (Edimax EW-7718Un, for example) and issue the following commands from the command terminal:
    • # sudo su
    • # iwpriv ra0 e2p 208=04E8
    • # iwpriv ra0 e2p 20A=2018
    • You may need to plug out and plug back in your adapter for the above commands to be successful.
  13. We are now done. You can verify the modified values by using the lsusb command. Plugin your Wi-Fi adapter into your Samsung Smart TV and it will fool the TV to think that a Samsung specific stick has been plugged in. Enjoy!

Please note that the driver code doesn’t compile on version of ubuntu later than 10.04. If you have a reason to use a later version of ubuntu, you will need to make changes to some more .c files of the driver code because some of the libraries used have been renamed in the newer versions of ubuntu.

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If you are not seeing your network adapter on your computer, one of the reasons for this may be because you have an older network card driver installed on your computer. But, you don’t have to worry, fixes are available to solve this problem. If the problem is happening on your computer for the first time, try rebooting your computer and check if you can discover the network adapter on your computer.
NOTE-
If you have an Ethernet cable plugged into your system, then you should unplug the Ethernet cable from your computer and then plug in the Ethernet cable again. Check if you can find the adapter on your computer.

If the network driver is still not appearing on your computer, go for the fixes.



Fix 1- Perform cleanup of network devices-

Performing a clean up of the network devices will work out for you.

1. Pressing ‘Windows key‘ and the ‘R‘ key will open the Run window.

2. In the Run window, type “cmd” and then press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Enter‘ keys together to open the Command Prompt in administrative mode.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type or copy–paste this command and then press the Enter key.

Close Command Prompt window.

[NOTE–

In case if you face any error when you are trying to execute the command, try executing the command again on your computer.

Restart your computer to let the changes take effect on your computer. Your problem should be solved.

Fix 2 – Reset Winsock from cmd

If any of the above fixes didn’t work out for you, resetting the winsock may help you out.

1. Open the Command Prompt with administrative rights.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type or copy–paste this command in Command Prompt window and hit Enter.

Close Command Prompt window on your computer.

Reboot your computer to save the changes. After rebooting check if you can discover the missing network adapter again on your computer.

Fix 3 – Show hidden devices in Device Manager

Sometimes the network adapter gets hidden in the Device Manager window and then this problem prevails. To check, follow these steps-

1. To open a Run window, just press ‘Windows key+R‘.

2. After you have opened the Run window, you have to type “devmgmt.msc“.

2. In the Device Manager window, click on “View” on the menu bar and then make sure “Show hidden devices” is checked.

3. After doing that, click on “Network adapters” from the list of devices.

4. Then, click on “Action” in the menu bar and then finally click on “Scan for hardware changes“.

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5. In Device Manager window, expand “Network adapters” sections and then check if the missing network adapter is appearing on your computer or not.

If this didn’t help you out, go for the next solution.

Fix 4 – Automate WWAN AutoConfig

Automating the WWAN AutoConfig service on your computer will surely help you out.

1. You will need to press Windows key+S and begin to type “Services“.

2. Then, click on the “Services” in the search result.

3. In the Services window, scroll down to find the “WWAN AutoConfig” service.

4. Now, double click on it, and WWAN AutoConfig Properties window will be opened.

5. In WWAN AutoConfig Properties window, check the ‘Service status‘, if it is “Running“. In case, if it is ‘Stopped‘, simply click on “Start” to start the service.

6. Then, click on the drop-down menu beside the option”Startup type:” and select “Automatic“.

5. Finally, click on “Apply” and then on “OK” to save the changes on your computer.

Close Services window.

Reboot your computer.

After rebooting your computer check if you can discover the missing adapter on your computer.

Fix-5 Update the network adapter driver

If you can not discover a network adapter driver on your computer, it is maybe because the old/incompatible version of the network adapter is installed. Updating your existing driver may solve the problem. Follow these steps to update your network adapter driver-

1. At first, press the Windows key and then start to type “devmgmt“.

2. Then, click on the “Device Manager” which appears in the elevated search result.

3. In the Device Manager window, find “Network Adapters” from the list, click on it to expand it.

4. Now, from the drop-down select the driver which you are using. Right-click on it and click on “Update driver”.

5. When you see this prompt has appeared “How do you want to search for the drivers?“.

6. At first, you have click on the option “Search automatically for updated driver software“.

Wait till Windows searches for the compatible driver for your network adapter, downloads it and installs it. Close the Device Manager window.

Then, reboot your computer.
Check if you can find the network adapter driver. If the problems still persist then go for the next fix.

Fix-6 Rollback network adapter driver update

If the network adapter was working well some days before then, recent updates to your driver may be the reason you are not seeing the network adapter on your computer. Rolling back the last update of your network adapter driver can solve the problem you are facing.
Follow these steps to rollback the faulty update of your network adapter driver–

1. At first, right-click on the Windows icon on the left-most corner of your screen, and then click on “Device Manager“.

The Device Manager utility will open.

2. In the Device Manager window, find “Network Adapters” from the list, click on it to expand it.

3. Now, from the drop-down double click on the driver which you are currently using.

The propertieswindow will open.

4. In the Properties window, go to the “Driver” tab.

5. Click on “Roll Back Driver“. Click on “OK“.

The driver will be rollbacked.

6. Close the Device Manager window.

Restart your computer.

After rebooting your computer check if any network adapter is visible on your computer. If you are still having the same problem go for the next fix.

Fix-7 Uninstall and Reinstalling Network adapter

Uninstalling and reinstalling the network adapter can clear any corrupt or bad files of the network driver from your computer. Now, in the first step the uninstallation of the network adapter will be done, and in the next step we will install the network adapter.

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Follow these steps to uninstall your network adapter driver-

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1. Open the Device Manager window.

2. In the Device Manager utility window, expand the “Network Adapter” section.

3. Right-click on the network adapter you are using, click on “Uninstall device“. This will uninstall the driver.

Now, we will reinstall the wifi driver again on your device.

Method 1–

Simply restarting your computer should reinstall the software again.

Method 2–

If rebooting your computer didn’t install the driver then you have to install the driver yourself. Follow to install the driver manually-

1. Open the Device Manager window.

2. At first, In the Device Manager window, click on “Action“.

3. Then, you need to click on “Scan for hardware changes“.

The uninstalled driver should be reinstalled again.

Method 3-

If Method 2 did not install the driver then follow this next steps –

1. Click on “View” of the Device Manager. Then click on “Show hidden device“.

2. This will show the hidden drivers. Look out for your network adapter.

That network driver that you have uninstalled should bear a yellow triangle with the driver’s name.

3. Right-click on the network adapter driver and click on the “Update driver software“.

3. Simply, choose the option “Search automatically for updated driver software“.

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You will need to wait patiently as Windows will install the compatible driver.

You will need to close the Device Manager window.

Restart your computer to save the changes.

After rebooting, check if you can find the network adapter on your computer.

Fix- 8 Run System Restore on your computer

Running a system restore from a system restore point can solve your problem.

1. Press Windows Key+R together. The Run window shall prevail.

2. In the Run window, type “sysdm.cpl” and click on “OK“.

2. Go to the “System Protection” tab.

3. After click on “System Restore“. Then click on “Choose a different restore point“.

4. Then, you have to click on “Next“.

5. Choose the latest restore point

6. Then, click on the “Next“.

7. Finally, click on “Finish” to finish the process.

After the restoring process completes, check if you can find your network adapter.

If you still can’t find the network adapter then go for the next fix.

Fix-9 Troubleshoot network problems

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You can troubleshoot your problem with Windows troubleshooter. The troubleshooter will not only detect the problem of your network adapter will also attempt fixes for those problems. Follow these steps to troubleshoot your network adapter driver problem-

1. Type “troubleshoot network” in the search box beside the Windows icon and click on “Troubleshoot network“.

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2. Now, click on “Network troubleshooter“.

3. Now, follow on-screen instructions and it will automatically attempt fixes to your problem. When the process is complete click on “Close“.

Reboot your computer and check if you can find your network adapter driver on your computer. Your problem should be solved.

Sambit is a Mechanical Engineer By qualification who loves to write about Windows 10 and solutions to weirdest possible problems.

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