<div dir="ltr">no scanning at all unless I plug a wifi dongle in</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Need to make sure the system sees it as a usable network device. Do: <div><br></div><div>iwconfig ## verifies if the system sees it as a proper 802.11 device, and/or ap association</div><div>ip link ## sees the nic as a real interface</div><div>ip addr ## shows ip layer data, if it has an address</div><div>cat /var/log/syslog | grep NetworkManager ## verfies if network-manager is trying to do anything with it</div><div><br></div><div>Also, does the systray applet show the network scanning for any wifi devices? You should see *some* ssid's being found.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">or more as it is being detected just not transmitting data. what should I do?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">lspci sees SOMETHING at least. It says <div>03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter</div><div><br></div><div>so it is detected.</div><div><br></div><div>The card in the other computer is almost identical It is pci-e wile the one not being detected is a pci card.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_6257942339286398428m_-5635759445394948054h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Look at the pci devices with lspci, grep for network devices:<div><br></div><div><div>>> lspci | grep Network</div><div>>> 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 32)</div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_6257942339286398428m_-5635759445394948054m_-5409289908959799507h5">On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_6257942339286398428m_-5635759445394948054m_-5409289908959799507h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(224,237,211)">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?....</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(224,237,211)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(224,237,211)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(224,237,211)">I just googled it and the one hit I got said he had a dead card. 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