<div dir="ltr">I think it is the card. The same card (except interface) works in the other computer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:21 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">Hmm, well it looks supported...<div><br></div><div><a href="https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RT2X00.html" target="_blank">https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-<wbr>lkddb/RT2X00.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Per your lspci, you have a RT5362 chip, using the RT2x00 driver, and looks supported in most modern kernels. What kernel are you using? </div><div><br></div><div>You're going to want to look through your dmesg, grepping for that RT5362 or pci-id to find what is going on when it's probing the hardware to load the kernel modules. Perhaps there's an anomaly to the build that udev isn't handling it properly. Might look at your lsmod output and see if that rt2x00 driver is loading too, or manually loading that driver to see what happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Any number of reasons why it might fail, but as I said, *looks* supported...</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 Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 5:08 AM, 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">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="m_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-mb</div></font></span></div><div class="m_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961HOEnZb"><div class="m_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961h5"><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_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961m_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_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961m_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_7197115660125910892m_-5607421926766218961m_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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