In my experience, you won't get any further than lsusb "seeing" the device if you haven't the firmware. It may be blacklisted.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > On 18/1/17 6:50 am, Terry Polzin wrote: > >> Is the device firmware getting loaded? >> > Thanks Terry. At the moment I'm not sure. This device used to work so I am > assuming the firmware is being loaded, but at the moment I'm not sure if > the firmware extensions package has been uninstalled for some reason as > part of standard system upgrades. > > regards, > Steve > > >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au >> <mailto:samor...@netspace.net.au>> wrote: >> >> On 17/1/17 7:49 am, Rick Stevens wrote: >> >> On 01/16/2017 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 01/16/2017 12:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >> >> I am using kde at the moment and I have cut and pasted >> the wifi password >> back into the Networkmanager definition, and had the >> new password stored >> in Kwallet, but Networkmanager still refuses to >> recognize that the >> device is a device it can connect to. >> >> Therefor the password isn't the issue. And, as it works >> under Windows, >> it's not hardware. >> >> First try "ethtool -i <name-of-device>" to see what driver is >> loaded >> (if any). If you get data back then try "iwlist wlan0 scan" >> (replace >> "wlan0" with your device) to see what access points are in the >> area. >> >> If all that works, then the wireless itself is working under >> Linux and >> there's something odd about the way NetworkManager (NM) and >> your device >> talk to each other. At that point you could try to disable NM >> and use >> the wpa_supplicant programs directly to try to get it up (such as >> running wpa_supplicant in the background and using something like >> wpa_supplicant_gui to manipulate it). If you're successful >> there, then >> try to get NM to talk nice or bugzilla it to the NM list. >> >> Sorry Rick, how do I determine what the device name is? The only >> information I have been able to determine is that lsusb shows me >> that the usb device is there, and iwconfig says that there are no >> devices with wireless extensions, but I don't see a device in that >> list that I am expecting (I don't remember exactly what the device >> name was when it was being used but I think is started with 'wp'). >> The only difference between the last time I used the wifi device >> (which was probably 6 months ago, I've been using an ethernet >> 'Home Plug' device) and now is that I have put on multiple system >> upgrades for F24, plus at the moment I don't know whether the >> issue is NetworkManager, Kernels or something else. >> >> regards, >> Steve >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ---------- >> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital >> ri...@alldigital.com <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com> - >> - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - >> - - >> - The moving cursor writes, and having written, blinks >> on. - >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ---------- >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> <mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> To unsubscribe send an email to >> users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> <mailto:users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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