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Re: Please help with - it seems - no WiFi interface at all



Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sun 28 Jun 2015 at 17:16:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 2015-06-28 at 15:54 +0100, Brian wrote:
> >> > BTW, 70-persistent-net.rules does not show what hardware is on the
> >> > system. However, it does show that at some time in the past wlan0
> >> > used a USB wireless device.
> >> 
> >> I know, but at the time it was posted it was the best clue to the wifi
> >> hardware available.
> >
> > Only the OP  knows when it was last used. Only the OP knows whether it
> > worked. It was by way of a hint; who knows what the future will bring.
> 
> Maybe it was the usb-bluetooth adaptor?  I don't know, and it's clear I'm no
> expert at all.

Well, 14:cc:20:11:82:ec yields "14:CC:20 TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD"
on a couple of websites, which is not incompatible with that reasoning.

> The WiFi hardware on my machine should be Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, but it is
> probably dead, because installing firmware-ipw2x00 had no effect.  But I have
> some other WiFi hardware, that I bought yesterday and that's detected - so it
> seems - on wlan0 after installing firmware-realtek: it is a wireless-USB
> adaptor, the TL-WN725N.  I've been googling to search a proper driver for it,
> but the matter looks to be hard issue.

Hard in what way? I see drivers at
http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/TL-WN725N_V2.html#Driver
(for version 2), but I've no idea if either works.

> I also found:
> 
>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/10/msg0

Is the end of this url missing?

Cheers,
David.


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