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Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

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Thanks for the suggestion Roger.

I'm not sure how to search the dsmesg output so I unplugged the device and 
replugged it so that the relevant message appeared at the bottom of the 
output. (I know, RTFM!).

The dongle is being correctly identified as far as I can see, says the 
manufacturer is Realtek, the chipset maker, and picks up the MAC address 
amongst other things.

I'm having to transpose the following info manually, obviously can't copy 
and paste to mail! The important messages seem to be. (EOE)

usb 1-2: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin

usb 1-2: firmware failed to load rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin (-2)

usb 1-2: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin failed with error -2

usb 1-2: r8712u: Firmware request failed.

Does this suggest the appropriate firmware isn't available locally?

If so some help on how I obtain it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, RH

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Roger Price wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Richard Hobson wrote:
>
>> ...I use a USB dongle (StarTech) for practical reasons. I've previously 
>> used this in an installation of OpenSuse on the same machine and although 
>> it wasn't detected at install time it was on first boot and I was able to 
>> use the graphical configuration tool to set it up, ...
>
> Perhaps openSUSE automatically loaded the required firmware, but Debian does 
> not.  Does dmesg have anything to say about StarTech firmware?
>
> Roger
>

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USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-07-17 15:40 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 16:10 +0200
    Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org> - 2019-07-17 17:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 18:40 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-17 18:00 +0200
        Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 18:50 +0200
          Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:30 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-18 19:00 +0200
            Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-18 19:50 +0200
              Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hobson <hobsonrj@gmail.com> - 2019-07-19 01:30 +0200
                Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-19 05:00 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-18 19:10 +0200
      Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-18 08:10 +0200
        Re: USB wireless dongle not detected David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-18 23:50 +0200
          Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-19 00:20 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-17 16:30 +0200
  Re: USB wireless dongle not detected Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-07-17 16:50 +0200

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