I currently have a wifi usb dongle attached to my raspberry pi 1 model B, however it is not getting picked up. I think that the wifi dongle is probably not supported but would like to just confirm.
I can see the pi pick up the USB when I run dmesg:
[ 3.061377] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 3.073439] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
[ 3.090634] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <raspberrypi>.
[ 3.115947] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-20980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:5e:8d:a8
[ 3.227388] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg
[ 3.322353] uart-pl011 20201000.uart: no DMA platform data
[ 3.370245] random: systemd-sysv-ge: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read, 63 bits of entropy available)
[ 3.397360] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=7610
[ 3.410517] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 3.423836] usb 1-1.2: Product: WiFi
[ 3.433170] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: MediaTek
[ 3.443483] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 1.0
[ 3.587318] usb 1-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
[ 3.648243] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read, 65 bits of entropy available)
[ 3.665961] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read, 65 bits of entropy available)
[ 3.683745] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read, 65 bits of entropy available)
[ 3.733949] random: systemd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read, 67 bits of entropy available)
[ 3.749839] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=413c, idProduct=2003
[ 3.762602] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 3.775616] usb 1-1.3: Product: Dell USB Keyboard
[ 3.785910] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Dell
I can also see it whilst running the command lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. LAN9500 Ethernet 10/100 Adapter / SMSC9512/9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
and here is the lsmod output:
Module Size Used by
cfg80211 500739 0
rfkill 21397 1 cfg80211
evdev 11650 1
snd_bcm2835 23131 0
snd_pcm 95473 1 snd_bcm2835
snd_timer 22556 1 snd_pcm
snd 68400 3 snd_bcm2835,snd_timer,snd_pcm
bcm2835_gpiomem 3823 0
bcm2835_wdt 4133 0
uio_pdrv_genirq 3718 0
uio 10230 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
ipv6 367671 28
also here is my /etc/network/interfaces file:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Please note that this file is written to be used with dhcpcd
# For static IP, consult /etc/dhcpcd.conf and 'man dhcpcd.conf'
# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#wifi network interface
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
#wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
wireless-ssid [ssid]
wireless-key [pass]
iface default inet dhcp
