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Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

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On 18/07/19 2:44 AM, Richard Hobson wrote:
> 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?

Maybe, but maybe not. Are there other attempts later, with different files?

IIRC it's relatively normal to try different files till you get the
right one.

I suspect that file is present, or it wouldn't be able to try to load
it. And it seems to be provided in the firmware-realtek package,
suggesting you already have that package. But it could be corrupted, I
suppose. Or your hardware might require newer firmware, though that
seems unlikely if OpenSUSE worked and buster doesn't.

BTW please don't top-post on the list - the rest of us don't, so it
really confuses the order of the conversation :-)

Richard

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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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