On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> With the dongle being a USB3 device I switched it back to a USB3 port > because I hadn't realised that when I moved it to see if the continual > connect/disconnect issue changed, which it didn't, but I was expecting to > see the wlan* device being renamed to a name like the one you supplied, as > I had seen that happening in the journalctl output, but from what I could > see that didn't happen in this case, but I have an even bigger problem now, > the kernel driver required for the dongle is now erroring at boot time. I > raised a mail on this but I can't tell if it made the list as I forgot to > CC myself on it so it wasn't echoed back to me and replies I do get echoed > back without a CC and as yet there haven't been any responses to the mail > if it did make the list. This failure may be because of IWD options I've > specified but I don't know. > > regards, > > In the last couple of days I have upgraded my PC hardware and done a fresh > install of F43, which as part of the upgrade I have replaced the wifi > dongle with a new version of the same dongle as the original one was > actually defective, which might explain why it was continually connecting > and disconnecting. > > With the new version of the dongle the light in the side lights up, which > it didn't with the previous version, but the issue I have now is I can't > get wifi under F43 because F43 can't actually see the dongle, unless it is > not actually reporting itself as a Netgear device. Under Windows I don't > have any issues. The new motherboard does have built-in terminals for a > wifi 7 dongle that was supplied with the motherboard but that interface > doesn't work even under Windows. The motherboard I am using is an Asus ROG > Crosshair X870E Hero and the dongle is a Netgear Nighthawk A9000. > > Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get the dongle, as a starting > point, actually seen under F43? > Are other Linux users able to "see" it? The LHDB should tell you if it works for others and what module/driver they use. The product literature should give you the USB vendor and product ID's which makes it easy to search the LHDB. Did you purchase from a reputable vendor? Maybe counterfitters have moved from SSD's to WiFi dongles. > -- > regards, > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- George N. White III
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