Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

[AZ Pete]

Hello,
Thanks for the reply. When I do a "ifconfig -a" only etho and lo are displayed.
"lsmod | grep rt2800" returns nothing.
It seems that Linux isn't finding the driver for this card.
At this point, I've spent way too much time trying to get this card running when it should be a "no-brainer". I'd rather just spend a few dollars on another card and be done with it.
Any recommendations on which PCie-based wifi cards work well with Linux - that is "plug and chug" without having to jump through all these hoops.

Thanks!
Peter


On 4/21/2021 5:37 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On 2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a
>> Linux Mint 20.1 machine. [...] all hardware works fine in Windows.
>> When I boot Linux it looks to me like it's not able to find the
>> card. This card is a few years old
>>
>> What does "network UNCLAIMED" mean?
> (lshw output snipped)
>>    *-network UNCLAIMED
>>         description: Network controller
>>         product: RT5592 PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
>
> You should see 2 network devices with "ifconfig -a", do you? grepping through the kernel sources for RT5592 says that this thing should be supported by the rt2800pci module.  When you do "lsmod | grep rt2800", do you see that?  If it's not there, then modprobe it.  If it is, how are you managing your nyetwork on this machine?  Lots of distros use "Network Manager", which is a giant PITA, but is "friendly", whatever that means.  Go into your nyetwork manager and configure it so that it knows what ESSID to connect to and what the password is.  Alternatively, make sure that you've got wpa_supplicant installed and just add the configuration info to wpa_supplicant.conf and restart wpa_supplicant .
>
> Also, UNCLAIMED is not necessarily a bad thing.  If I do lshw here, I see that a camera I have plugged in is UNCLAIMED.  This is because it's a PTP digital camera, so it is claimed by no kernel module, but it is supported in userspace with gtkam/libusb.  Your network card should probably not be like that though.
>

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