netis wf2118

[Michael]

The driver appears to be loading:

$ lsmod| grep rt2x00
rt2x00pci              13287  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00mmio             13603  2 rt2800pci,rt2800mmio
rt2x00lib              55307  5 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci,
rt2800mmio,rt2x00mmio
mac80211              626489  6 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib,
rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rtl8192cu
cfg80211              484040  3 mac80211,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib

 and pci-id and RT5362 do not appear in dmesg:

 $ dmesg |grep RT5362
 $ dmesg |grep pci-id
 $


On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> $ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> iwconfig doesn't see it
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Need to make sure the system sees it as a usable network device.  Do:
>>>
>>> iwconfig  ## verifies if the system sees it as a proper 802.11 device,
>>> and/or ap association
>>> ip link  ## sees the nic as a real interface
>>> ip addr  ## shows ip layer data, if it has an address
>>> cat /var/log/syslog | grep NetworkManager  ## verfies if network-manager
>>> is trying to do anything with it
>>>
>>> Also, does the systray applet show the network scanning for any wifi
>>> devices?  You should see *some* ssid's being found.
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> or more as it is being detected just not transmitting data. what should
>>>> I do?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> lspci sees SOMETHING at least. It says
>>>>> 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless
>>>>> Network Adapter
>>>>>
>>>>> so it is detected.
>>>>>
>>>>> The card in the other computer is almost identical It is pci-e wile
>>>>> the one not being detected is a pci card.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Look at the pci devices with lspci, grep for network devices:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >> lspci | grep Network
>>>>>> >> 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac
>>>>>> Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should see a like device there, your new card.  If it's not being
>>>>>> detected properly, search dmesg output looking for an unknown device, might
>>>>>> be a firmware thing or something.  Dmesg should at least tell you what
>>>>>> pci-id, vendor, or model of chip to then google why that doesn't load under
>>>>>> your os.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -mb
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got two wireless cards (netis wf2118) for two computers. both
>>>>>>> computers have mint. One card is pci the other pci-e. the pci-e card works
>>>>>>> great. the pci not so much. the green connectivity light on the pci card is
>>>>>>> happily a solid green. Any ideas on how to get it to work?....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just googled it and the one hit I got said he had a dead card. How
>>>>>>> can I tell if it is dead?
>>>>>>>
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