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<font face="Calibri">Hello,<br>
Thanks for the reply. When I do a "ifconfig -a" only etho and lo
are displayed.<br>
"lsmod | grep rt2800" returns nothing. <br>
It seems that Linux isn't finding the driver for this card.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Peter<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/21/2021 5:37 PM, Matt Graham via
PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:9cecaf9bf71c79a28dbb4d5d9bc7aa7f@crow202.org">On
2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I'm having a bear of a time getting my
wireless card to work in a
<br>
Linux Mint 20.1 machine. [...] all hardware works fine in
Windows.
<br>
When I boot Linux it looks to me like it's not able to find the
<br>
card. This card is a few years old
<br>
<br>
What does "network UNCLAIMED" mean?
<br>
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(lshw output snipped)
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"> *-network UNCLAIMED
<br>
description: Network controller
<br>
product: RT5592 PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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 .
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
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