I have Ugreen UG-2020204 Ac650 Usb WIFI stick that stays in disk mode when inserted. I got it to work once in the help of chatGPT, but then I did a reboot and its back to CDROM Mode. Is there an easier way to doe this? Apprent I need usb_modeswitch and their used to be a community app that had that, but I can find it...

root@server:~# lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:1a2b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188GU 802.11n WLAN Adapter (Driver CDROM Mode)

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

Please post the diagnostics.

thanks for taking a look

diagnostics-20251024-2115.zip

Copy the attached file to the flash drive /extra folder; create it if it doesn't exists, then reboot and see if you can change the mode

usb_modeswitch-2.6.2-x86_64-1.txz

That worked! Thanks for your help!

Can I assign the same IP address to the wifi interface as I use when the machine is wired? I only occasionally need to use this machine via wifi and it would be nice if it booted up to the same ip address no matter witch connection was being used.

25 minutes ago, RimuJim said:

That worked! Thanks for your help!

Can I assign the same IP address to the wifi interface as I use when the machine is wired? I only occasionally need to use this machine via wifi and it would be nice if it booted up to the same ip address no matter witch connection was being used.

I, personally, would not try this. It may confuse the hell out of your router and which may then attempt to send data to the wrong NIC. (Routers don't forget NICs, their MAC addresses and the associated IP address just because they are not active at this very instant!)