And you might want to do it case-INsensitive, just to be sure you don’t miss it. From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Bob Elzer Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 3:11 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: netis wf2118 doing a grep will not show adjacent lines that have errors on them. 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. keep searching for the next occurrence, until you reach the end of file On Aug 25, 2017 1:43 PM, "Michael" > wrote: The driver appears to be loading: $ lsmod| grep rt2x00 rt2x00pci 13287 1 rt2800pci rt2x00mmio 13603 2 rt2800pci,rt2800mmio rt2x00lib 55307 5 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci,rt2800mmio,rt2x00mmio mac80211 626489 6 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rtl8192cu cfg80211 484040 3 mac80211,rtlwifi,rt2x00lib and pci-id and RT5362 do not appear in dmesg: $ dmesg |grep RT5362 $ dmesg |grep pci-id $ On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Michael > wrote: $ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Michael > wrote: iwconfig doesn't see it On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Michael Butash > wrote: Need to make sure the system sees it as a usable network device. Do: iwconfig ## verifies if the system sees it as a proper 802.11 device, and/or ap association ip link ## sees the nic as a real interface ip addr ## shows ip layer data, if it has an address cat /var/log/syslog | grep NetworkManager ## verfies if network-manager is trying to do anything with it Also, does the systray applet show the network scanning for any wifi devices? You should see *some* ssid's being found. -mb On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Michael > wrote: or more as it is being detected just not transmitting data. what should I do? On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Michael > wrote: 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~(-: -- :-)~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~(-: -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- :-)~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