Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this,
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled
Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
B
On Feb 19, 2023, at 20:58, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this,
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled
Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
Most likely missing the firmware if you were able to find the kmod. Check the kernel logs (dmesg) after loading the kmod for errors.
Try looking at the output of ‘rfkill’ to see if it detects it.
-- Jonathan Billings
On 2/20/2023 5:08 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Feb 19, 2023, at 20:58, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this,
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled
Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
Most likely missing the firmware if you were able to find the kmod. Check the kernel logs (dmesg) after loading the kmod for errors.
Try looking at the output of ‘rfkill’ to see if it detects it.
...
Rfkill says this, idk what it means, but looks like something not found,
ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD 0 wlan phy0 unblocked unblocked
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this,
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled
Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
It would be helpful to know details of your wifi hardware, fedora version, and current kernel. A number of Fedora users were caught out because they missed updates to wifi modules required for 6.x kernels. For people whose only access to internet is via wifi, sorting this can be tricky.
The kernel is 6.1 with the F37 version the driver should be a ralink. Rt28 or so..
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 5:29 PM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this,
STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled
Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
It would be helpful to know details of your wifi hardware, fedora version, and current kernel. A number of Fedora users were caught out because they missed updates to wifi modules required for 6.x kernels. For people whose only access to internet is via wifi, sorting this can be tricky.
-- George N. White III
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On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Well I was finally able to get the right cli option into the cli to activate the wifi and I got no wifi found. Wifi was showing up with the rest of the connections, I tried another command and got this, STATE CONNECTIVITY WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN disconnected none missing enabled missing enabled Something is not right, I have no idea what to do. Is this a systemd issue? What does this mean?
It would be helpful to know details of your wifi hardware, fedora version, and current kernel. A number of Fedora users were caught out because they missed updates to wifi modules required for 6.x kernels. For people whose only access to internet is via wifi, sorting this can be tricky.
-- George N. White III
The thing I don't get is the net install I used installed, so there was something there at one point, that connected. Now, it's evidently not there. No I don't have ethernet access right now so wifi is all I have.
B
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: [...]
The thing I don't get is the net install I used installed, so there was something ther
at one point, that connected. Now, it's evidently not there. No I don't have ethernet
access right now so wifi is all I have.
A USB installer for some linux distro may still work, although it is also
possible that your wifi hardware died.
Can you obtain a usb ethernet adapter to help get connected to sort out
installs for wifi?
You should also consider swapping the wifi card or a USB wifi dongle. There are also wifi to ethernet boxes that will allow any system with ethernet to use wifi. Some are sold as "wifi externders" but include an ethernet port:
Linksys AC1900 Plug In Range Extender with MU-MIMO (Max Stream RE7000-CA) NETGEAR WiFi Range Extender EX6120
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: [...]
The thing I don't get is the net install I used installed, so there was something ther
at one point, that connected. Now, it's evidently not there. No I don't have ethernet
access right now so wifi is all I have.
A USB installer for some linux distro may still work, although it is also
possible that your wifi hardware died.
Can you obtain a usb ethernet adapter to help get connected to sort out
installs for wifi?
You should also consider swapping the wifi card or a USB wifi dongle. There are also wifi to ethernet boxes that will allow any system with ethernet to use wifi. Some are sold as "wifi externders" but include an ethernet port:
Linksys AC1900 Plug In Range Extender with MU-MIMO (Max Stream RE7000-CA) NETGEAR WiFi Range Extender EX6120
-- George N. White III
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On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote:
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: [...]
The thing I don't get is the net install I used installed, so there was something ther
at one point, that connected. Now, it's evidently not there. No I don't have ethernet
access right now so wifi is all I have.
A USB installer for some linux distro may still work, although it is also
possible that your wifi hardware died.
Can you obtain a usb ethernet adapter to help get connected to sort out
installs for wifi?
You should also consider swapping the wifi card or a USB wifi dongle. There are also wifi to ethernet boxes that will allow any system with ethernet to use wifi. Some are sold as "wifi externders" but include an ethernet port:
Linksys AC1900 Plug In Range Extender with MU-MIMO (Max Stream RE7000-CA) NETGEAR WiFi Range Extender EX6120
Here are a couple of low-level things to try.
lspci enumerates all the slots on the bus. There may be a hint there. Some stuff is motherboard generic but others are device specific.
lsmod shows all the kernel modules that have been loaded. ( lspci | sort may make it easier to look through ).
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote:
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: [...]
The thing I don't get is the net install I used installed, so there was something ther
at one point, that connected. Now, it's evidently not there. No I don't have ethernet
access right now so wifi is all I have.
A USB installer for some linux distro may still work, although it is also
possible that your wifi hardware died.
Can you obtain a usb ethernet adapter to help get connected to sort out
installs for wifi?
You should also consider swapping the wifi card or a USB wifi dongle. There are also wifi to ethernet boxes that will allow any system with ethernet to use wifi. Some are sold as "wifi externders" but include an ethernet port:
Linksys AC1900 Plug In Range Extender with MU-MIMO (Max Stream RE7000-CA) NETGEAR WiFi Range Extender EX6120
Here are a couple of low-level things to try.
lspci enumerates all the slots on the bus. There may be a hint there. Some stuff is motherboard generic but others are device specific.
lsmod shows all the kernel modules that have been loaded. ( lspci | sort may make it easier to look through ).
There are kernel drivers that are source that need to be compiled yes. The usb adapter came with no instructions on how to do that and I have no idea how too. THere must be a utility or two also that needs to be compiled with the actualt drivers, there's a lot of code there. The drivers is supposed to be called RT2870.ko.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Is what the USB bus says is the USB adapter.
B
On 2/21/23 14:01, Bill Cunningham wrote:
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote:
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 7:20 AM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 4:47 AM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 21 Feb 2023, at 03:42, Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/20/2023 5:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: [...]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Is what the USB bus says is the USB adapter.
That's Mediatek. The driver is mt7601u.ko. It's been a looong time since I had to muck around with drivers but I think you want to:
modprobe mt7601u
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 6:02 PM Bill Cunningham bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/21/2023 1:25 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 2/21/23 08:56, Bill C wrote:
[...] Bus 002 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp. MT7601U Wireless Adapter
Is what the USB bus says is the USB adapter.
Ralink was a California company that was acquired by Mediatek, a Taiwan company in 2011, which explains the MT in MT7601U.
That was a popular model, with 1696 linux-hardware.org reports. Early reports say it works, recent reports only say "detected". http://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:148f-7601 mentions 3 drivers, one shipped with kernels that have it enabled. All 3 Fedora kernels here have it configured as a module.
% grep CONFIG_MT7601U /boot/config* /boot/config-6.1.11-200.fc37.x86_64:CONFIG_MT7601U=m /boot/config-6.1.12-200.fc37.x86_64:CONFIG_MT7601U=m /boot/config-6.2.0-0.rc5.20230125git948ef7bb70c4.40.fc38.x86_64:CONFIG_MT7601U=m
Check the kernels on your system. Boot one that has the module and see if "mt7601u" is being used:
% lsmod | grep mt7601u
If it isn't listed, try running "modprobe -v --show mt7601u". Wikipedia has a list of drivers that flags the models that need non-free firmware. Yours does. I have:
% ls -l /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7610u* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 39928 Feb 12 16:50 /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7610u.bin.xz
It appears that yours should work in Fedora. You may need to rid your system of old manually installed drivers and/or find a way to update the non-free firmware:
% dnf whatprovides /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek Last metadata expiration check: 2 days, 8:04:41 ago on Sat 18 Feb 2023 04:05:52 PM. linux-firmware-20220913-140.fc37.noarch : Firmware files used by the Linux kernel Repo : fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek
linux-firmware-20230210-147.fc37.noarch : Firmware files used by the Linux kernel Repo : @System Matched from: Filename : /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek
linux-firmware-20230210-147.fc37.noarch : Firmware files used by the Linux kernel Repo : updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:56 PM Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
It also includes a radio. These units may need to load vendor firmware for use, and do require a specific driver, which may come from the vendor or some open-source project. If you post details of your device someone may be able to tell you how to use it with current Fedora.
Use "lsusb"to find the device name and bus location. For example (showing only the wifi device):
Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Also run `lshw --wlan`. The entry for the above device is:
22: USB 00.0: 0282 WLAN controller [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: i1H1.x9IMWGGtcg8 Parent ID: cLrx.8T3QcmdDop7 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 1-2.3:1.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x0bda "Realtek Semiconductor Corp." Device: usb 0x8176 "RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter" Revision: "2.00" Serial ID: "00e04c000001" Driver: "rtl8192cu" Driver Modules: "rtl8192cu" Device File: wlp0s20u2u3 Features: WLAN Speed: 12 Mbps HW Address: aa:fe:01:c4:37:fa Permanent HW Address: 8c:ae:4c:f8:01:56 Link detected: no WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap Module Alias: "usb:v0BDAp8176d0200dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: rtl8192cu is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8192cu" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: rtl8xxxu is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8xxxu" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #21 (Hub)
Look for the "Link detected" and "Driver" entries. Run `ls mod | grep <driver_name>`, e.g.,
% ls mod | grep rtl8192c rtl8192cu 94208 0 rtl_usb 28672 1 rtl8192cu rtl8192c_common 69632 1 rtl8192cu rtlwifi 110592 3 rtl8192c_common,rtl_usb,rtl8192cu mac80211 1298432 4 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu,rtlwifi,rtl8xxxu
You also look in journalctl for messages related to these modules.
Oh yes it comes with its own driver. The thing is how was I able to install over WiFi if there wasn't a fedora driver available. I have a gut feeling it's my lack of knowledge of how the cli tools work. Can fedora scan for an appropriate driver and install?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 1:53 PM George N. White III gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:56 PM Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB port
It also includes a radio. These units may need to load vendor firmware for use, and do require a specific driver, which may come from the vendor or some open-source project. If you post details of your device someone may be able to tell you how to use it with current Fedora.
Use "lsusb"to find the device name and bus location. For example (showing only the wifi device):
Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Also run `lshw --wlan`. The entry for the above device is:
22: USB 00.0: 0282 WLAN controller [Created at usb.122] Unique ID: i1H1.x9IMWGGtcg8 Parent ID: cLrx.8T3QcmdDop7 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0 SysFS BusID: 1-2.3:1.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter" Hotplug: USB Vendor: usb 0x0bda "Realtek Semiconductor Corp." Device: usb 0x8176 "RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter" Revision: "2.00" Serial ID: "00e04c000001" Driver: "rtl8192cu" Driver Modules: "rtl8192cu" Device File: wlp0s20u2u3 Features: WLAN Speed: 12 Mbps HW Address: aa:fe:01:c4:37:fa Permanent HW Address: 8c:ae:4c:f8:01:56 Link detected: no WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap Module Alias: "usb:v0BDAp8176d0200dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: rtl8192cu is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8192cu" Driver Info #1: Driver Status: rtl8xxxu is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8xxxu" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #21 (Hub)
Look for the "Link detected" and "Driver" entries. Run `ls mod | grep <driver_name>`, e.g.,
% ls mod | grep rtl8192c rtl8192cu 94208 0 rtl_usb 28672 1 rtl8192cu rtl8192c_common 69632 1 rtl8192cu rtlwifi 110592 3 rtl8192c_common,rtl_usb,rtl8192cu mac80211 1298432 4 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu,rtlwifi,rtl8xxxu
You also look in journalctl for messages related to these modules.
-- George N. White III
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 3:50 PM Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
Oh yes it comes with its own driver. The thing is how was I able to install over WiFi if there wasn't a fedora driver available. I have a gut feeling it's my lack of knowledge of how the cli tools work. Can fedora scan for an appropriate driver and install?
Bundled drivers usually don't work for newer linux versions. If you have popular hardware, supported drivers will be added by linux.org and you should switch so things don't break with newer kernels.