Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-22 Thread John Seberg via PLUG-discuss
FWIW, I bought this, last Nov., and I don't remember having much trouble with Ubuntu 18 LTS. One thing I wasn't expecting - the Bluetooth connected to the USB on the motherboard. I hooked it up, but, I don't really use it. The wifi works fine, for my purposes. I didn't look too hard at your

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-22 Thread AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
I tried "modprobe rt2800pci" and no errors were returned, but still nothing working. I always install selecting to include non-free software. I saw no packages available with *ralink* in the name and all packages with *firmware* in the name didn't seem applicable. I did some reading and found

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-22 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
On 2021-04-22 12:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 4/21/2021 5:37 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. (lshw output snipped) *-network

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-22 Thread AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
Hello, Thanks for the reply. When I do a "ifconfig -a" only etho and lo are displayed. "lsmod | grep rt2800" returns nothing. It seems that Linux isn't finding the driver for this card. At this point, I've spent way too much time trying to get this card running when it should be a "no-brainer".

Re: Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-21 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
On 2021-04-21 16:44, AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. [...] all hardware works fine in Windows. When I boot Linux it looks to me like it's not able to find the card. This card is a few years old What does

Wifi Adapter Not Recognized

2021-04-21 Thread AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss
Hi All, I'm having a bear of a time getting my wireless card to work in a Linux Mint 20.1 machine. The machine is my old dev box that I want to re-purpose and requires wireless connectivity to my network (it's in an area were hard line isn't available). This machine dual boots to Windows 10