From Manuals

Procedure to Enable Wireless USB Adapters on Electrum

1) Make sure that the Kernel has Configurations to enable Wireless USB. ( In this example RT2X00, RT73USB, ZD1211 modules are enabled.)

CONFIG_CFG80211=y

CONFIG_NL80211=y

CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y

CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y


CONFIG_MAC80211=y

CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_PID=y

CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT_PID=y

CONFIG_MAC80211_RC_DEFAULT="pid"

CONFIG_WLAN_80211=y


CONFIG_RT2X00=m

CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB=m

CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB=m

CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_FIRMWARE=y

CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_LEDS=y
 

CONFIG_RT73USB=m

CONFIG_ZD1211RW=m

CONFIG_RT73USB_LEDS=y


CONFIG_CRYPTO=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4=y

CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW=y

CONFIG_CRC_ITU_T=y

2) Start Electrum100 with new Kernel Build.

3) Update the list of available packages, then install the firmware-ralink, wireless-tools, wpasupplicant packages:

Electrum100:# apt-get update

Electrum100:# apt-get install firmware-ralink wireless-tools wpasupplicant