I’m really stumped. I’ve followed the stickied posts to try and troubleshoot the wifi but maybe I’m just missing something obvious. My wifi adapter is a bluetooth/wifi combo usb stick made by Cirago. It appears to have been recognized, the KDE network manager applet in the tray shows a wi-fi icon, however, no networks are found.
I installed Opensuse 13.2, kde and updated all the files with ethernet. I went into the Yast, and changed the network general settings to use NetworkManager instead of Wicked.
gregg@linux-wk7a:~> dmesg | grep firmware
5.962128] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
gregg@linux-wk7a:~> sudo iwlist scan
enp3s0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlp0s20u11u2 No scan results
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
gregg@linux-wk7a:~> iwconfig
Absolute path to 'iwconfig' is '/usr/sbin/iwconfig', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).
gregg@linux-wk7a:~> sudo iwconfig
enp3s0 no wireless extensions.
wlp0s20u11u2 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lo no wireless extensions.
gregg@linux-wk7a:~>
Is there any other tests to try or simply obvious things that I’m not doing correctly?
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0cf3:3002 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3011 Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 007: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0bda:817b Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Relevant dmesg:
379.823774] usb 3-11: new high-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
379.989335] usb 3-11: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
379.989337] usb 3-11: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
379.989337] usb 3-11: Product: USB2.0 Hub
379.989932] hub 3-11:1.0: USB hub found
379.990272] hub 3-11:1.0: 4 ports detected
380.266669] usb 3-11.2: new high-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
380.351852] usb 3-11.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=817b
380.351853] usb 3-11.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
380.351854] usb 3-11.2: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
380.351855] usb 3-11.2: Manufacturer: Realtek
380.351855] usb 3-11.2: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
380.352351] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10
380.380506] rtl8192cu: MAC address: e0:91:53:71:e8:70
380.380508] rtl8192cu: Board Type 4
380.380586] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
380.380595] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
380.380681] ieee80211 phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
380.380898] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on
380.443939] usb 3-11.4: new full-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
380.536745] usb 3-11.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0a12, idProduct=0001
380.536747] usb 3-11.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
380.536747] usb 3-11.4: Product: CSR BS8510
381.559787] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
381.570323] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
381.923864] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp0s20u11u2: link is not ready
If additional details are needed, please let me know I’m prepared to post more information as necessary.
Thanks for taking a look. I actually don’t have a wired connection available right now, I’m currently typing to you from my windows install, however, when I installed OpenSUSE I did have it plugged in to ethernet, and the wired connection did show up nicely in the KDE applet like you mentioned.
There, blacklisting the ideapad-laptop kernel module helped. So maybe try that.
Disabling Bluetooth has been suggested as well, but I don’t know how you would do that with your USB adapter…
I really don’t know what the issue is or what to try. I guess I’m fairly incompetent when it comes to configuring linux on my own. Does anyone have any other suggestions to try?
I really don’t understand why the device isn’t working, it seems to be recognized correctly and drivers installed. How would you recommend proceeding on this?