On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 20:32 +0000, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm having lots of problems getting this usb wireless dongle (Edimax) > to pick up and connect to a wireless network. I'm not sure if there's > a config from an older wireless getting in the way. The hardware for > that isn't installed anymore. > > I'm running network manager in KDE > > It's detected by lsusb > Bus 002 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un > 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS] > > I installed the realtek firmware; > apt-get install firmware-realtek > > The drivers seem loaded correctly (from lsmod) > rtl8192cu 69632 0 > pcspkr 16384 0 > rtl_usb 20480 1 rtl8192cu > rtl8192c_common 53248 1 rtl8192cu > rtlwifi 77824 3 rtl_usb,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu > mac80211 671744 3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu > snd_usb_audio 180224 2 > snd_usbmidi_lib 28672 1 snd_usb_audio > cfg80211 589824 2 mac80211,rtlwifi > > The widget can detect different AP's (I used a test one from my phone > to confirm this), I see the one I want to connect to, but when I > click on it, it just goes to "configuring interface" and then I get a > disconnect notice, "wifi network could not be found". I've turned off > the security on my phone ap to test and this made no difference. > > Can you point me in the general direction of how to start sorting > this out? > Thanks > James > Try adding this to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no Then restart NetworkManager: # systemctl restart NetworkManager
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