Hello,
I've done my best to research the other similar posts and sticky's but am too new to put the pieces together.
What I'm trying to accomplish: Get my realtek usb wifi device to work and then be able to detect and connect to my home's wifi signal. I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with GNOME.
- Based on previous dives into trying to figure this out, I've installed kernel_devel, and kernel default devel is already installed. I believe that the hardware is detected, I believe that I need the proper driver and maybe the wrong kernel is being used.
- I also have had constant trouble trying to set up a network manager that just tells me if any wifi signals are being detected. Step one is always "make sure you're part of the netdev group, but the only group I can ever see is "users"--I don't know if group netdev exists and I just can't see it, or if I need to create it first?
Pasted some of the info found in one of the sticky's below.
1) What device do you have?
Information about your wireless hardware can be obtained by starting YaST, clicking on Hardware in the left panel and selecting Hardware Information. Henceforth, this sequence will be abbreviated YaST => Hardware => Hardware Information. In the resulting display, check for an entry named "Wireless LAN". Report its presence/absence in your report.
- "Wireless LAN" entry is not present.
- Realtek USB ID: 0bda:0811
2) Do you need to install external firmware? No idea
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> dmesg | grep firmware
[ 3.411157] [drm] Found VCE firmware/feedback version 50.0.1 / 17!
3) Once you know what your hardware is, the next step is to see what the kernel
has to say about it. The command for this is 'dmesg | less'.
~lines 899-942...
Code:
dmesg | less
[ 4.355962] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=0811, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 4.355964] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4.355965] usb 1-5: Product: 802.11ac WLAN Adapter
[ 4.355966] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 4.355967] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
(4) Once you have firmware in place, next check for a wireless device by using
the command '/usr/sbin/iwconfig'.
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
enp5s0 no wireless extensions.
(5) The next step is to determine if your adapter is receiving any broadcasts
from your AP. To do this enter the command 'sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan'
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
enp5s0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Other info I've pulled when pouring through the other 3 dozen threads I've googled:
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0811 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> sudo lspci -vnn
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7693]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, NUMA node 0
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at fe704000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at fe700000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=4 Masked-
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:7693]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
Code:
Tim@localhost:~> systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
└─NetworkManager-ovs.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2020-05-24 10:42:34 EDT; 1h 2min ago
Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
Main PID: 1189 (NetworkManager)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 17.9M
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─1189 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.
I am happy to provide any other info. I request your patience in walking through this. Always seems like the simplest "do this" items in posted in threads and Linux instructionals are not really so simple to the new folk like me.
Ultimately, I've read that the plan B is to just buy a device that is "plug and play" ready for OpenSUSE, but I'd really like to overcome this silly challenge without giving in to Plan B.
