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 <
michael@butash.net> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?
>>
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