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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Elzer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 25, 2017 3:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: netis wf2118<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">doing a grep will not show adjacent lines that have errors on them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">you need to use the less or more commands and search for those same things and read the lines before and after, to see if there are any errors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">keep searching for the next occurrence, until you reach the end of file<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 25, 2017 1:43 PM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">$ lsmod| grep rt2x00<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rt2x00pci 13287 1 rt2800pci<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">rt2x00mmio 13603 2 rt2800pci,rt2800mmio<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">mac80211 626489 6 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rtl8192cu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">cfg80211 484040 3 mac80211,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> and pci-id and RT5362 do not appear in dmesg:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> $ dmesg |grep RT5362<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> $ dmesg |grep pci-id<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">lo no wireless extensions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Need to make sure the system sees it as a usable network device. Do: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">iwconfig ## verifies if the system sees it as a proper 802.11 device, and/or ap association<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ip link ## sees the nic as a real interface<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, does the systray applet show the network scanning for any wifi devices? You should see *some* ssid's being found.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">or more as it is being detected just not transmitting data. what should I do?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">lspci sees SOMETHING at least. It says <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">so it is detected.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The card in the other computer is almost identical It is pci-e wile the one not being detected is a pci card.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Look at the pci devices with lspci, grep for network devices:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>> lspci | grep Network<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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?....</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333"><br>
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