netis wf2118

[Michael]

I think it is the card. The same card (except interface) works in the other
computer.

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> Hmm, well it looks supported...
>
> https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RT2X00.html
>
> Per your lspci, you have a RT5362 chip, using the RT2x00 driver, and looks
> supported in most modern kernels.  What kernel are you using?
>
> You're going to want to look through your dmesg, grepping for that RT5362
> or pci-id to find what is going on when it's probing the hardware to load
> the kernel modules.  Perhaps there's an anomaly to the build that udev
> isn't handling it properly.  Might look at your lsmod output and see if
> that rt2x00 driver is loading too, or manually loading that driver to see
> what happens.
>
> Any number of reasons why it might fail, but as I said, *looks*
> supported...
>
> -mb
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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