lspci sees SOMETHING at least. It says 03:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter so it is detected. The card in the other computer is almost identical It is pci-e wile the one not being detected is a pci card. On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Look at the pci devices with lspci, grep for network devices: > > >> lspci | grep Network > >> 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless > Network Adapter (rev 32) > > 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. > > -mb > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael wrote: > >> 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?.... >> >> I just googled it and the one hit I got said he had a dead card. How can >> I tell if it is dead? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: