netis wf2118

[Michael]

no scanning at all unless I plug a wifi dongle in

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <michael at 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 at 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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