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[Solved] Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:28 pm
by vamsi
I recently purchased one usb device when connected to usb port my pc will get wifi symbol and i can scan for wifi this all works perfectly fine in windows. After when i tried to do samething in MX Linux it doesn't show any wifi symbol or it doesn't even show that there is a device. Here is the command and output.

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$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path        Device     Class       Description
==================================================
                           system      To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
/0                         bus         To be filled by O.E.M.
/0/0                       memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                       processor   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4500  @ 2.20GHz
/0/4/5                     memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                     memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/f                       memory      3GiB System Memory
/0/f/0                     memory      1GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/1                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/f/2                     memory      2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/3                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/100                     bridge      82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
/0/100/2                   display     82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b                  multimedia  NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                  bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0   eth0       network     RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d                  bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e                  bridge      82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                  bridge      82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.1                storage     82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2                storage     NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/1            scsi3      storage     
/0/1/0.1.0      /dev/sda   disk        500GB ST3500414CS
/0/1/0.1.0/1    /dev/sda1  volume      500MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/2    /dev/sda2  volume      84GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/3    /dev/sda3  volume      85GiB EXT4 volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4    /dev/sda4  volume      295GiB Extended partition
/0/1/0.1.0/4/5  /dev/sda5  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/6  /dev/sda6  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/7  /dev/sda7  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/8  /dev/sda8  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2            scsi4      storage     
/0/2/0.0.0      /dev/sdb   disk        31GB Cruzer Blade
/0/2/0.0.0/0    /dev/sdb   disk        31GB 
/0/2/0.0.0/0/1  /dev/sdb1  volume      29GiB Windows FAT volume
There are my pc Specifications

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System:    Host: cherubim Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum May 26  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: N/A model: N/A serial: <filter> BIOS: American Megatrends 
           v: 080014 date: 08/20/2018 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom 
           rev: D L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 8775 
           Speed: 2068 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2068 2: 2071 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.2 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 495.01 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (1.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3500414CS size: 465.76 GiB temp: 44 C 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Blade size: 29.25 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 83.17 GiB used: 7.34 GiB (8.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 71.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/antix/stretch/ stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           2: deb http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx/testrepo/ stretch test
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 179 Uptime: 16m Memory: 2.92 GiB used: 849.5 MiB (28.4%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33
Is there anyway for me to use wifi on my pc. Thanks in advance.

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:03 pm
by Jerry3904
When you plug it in, what is the return to this command:

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dmesg | tail

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:08 pm
by vamsi
Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:03 pm When you plug it in, what is the return to this command:

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dmesg | tail

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$ dmesg | tail
[ 2724.709706] usb 5-8.4: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=042a, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 2724.709710] usb 5-8.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2724.709712] usb 5-8.4: Product: HP LaserJet Professional M1136 MFP
[ 2724.709714] usb 5-8.4: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
[ 2724.709716] usb 5-8.4: SerialNumber: 000000000QHCN97BPR1a
[ 2726.532547] usblp 5-8.4:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 10 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x042A
[ 2726.532607] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[ 3644.698699] usb 5-8: USB disconnect, device number 9
[ 3644.698706] usb 5-8.4: USB disconnect, device number 10
[ 3644.698915] usblp0: removed

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:17 pm
by Jerry3904
Well that's not it. So it's not being seen at all.

Can you get the device's specs (brand, model, mac address, etc.) from the Windows side? Once you have that, you can do a web search on 'Linux <that info>" or "Debian <that info>" to see the support situation.

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:25 pm
by Stevo
Does the device have any sort of FCC information on it or on the packaging? I know you're not in the USA, but the manufacturer might have it on it anyway.

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:24 am
by vamsi
Jerry3904 wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:17 pm Well that's not it. So it's not being seen at all.

Can you get the device's specs (brand, model, mac address, etc.) from the Windows side? Once you have that, you can do a web search on 'Linux <that info>" or "Debian <that info>" to see the support situation.
These are the details obtained when i am using wifi in windows10

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SSID:	D-Link_DIR-615
Protocol:	802.11n
Security type:	WPA2-Personal
Network band:	2.4 GHz
Network channel:	6
IPv4 address:	192.168.0.7
Manufacturer:	Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Description:	Realtek RTL8188FTV Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 Network Adapter
Driver version:	1030.18.1201.2016
Physical address (MAC):	?00-E0-29-2D-76-53

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks. Now that we know the name, there's a lot of info on how to install this to be found in a web search on "linux Realtek RTL8188FTV Wireless LAN." I haven't looked closely, but I see lots of solutions you might want to look through. Get back to us if you need more help.

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:26 am
by vamsi
Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 am Thanks. Now that we know the name, there's a lot of info on how to install this to be found in a web search on "linux Realtek RTL8188FTV Wireless LAN." I haven't looked closely, but I see lots of solutions you might want to look through. Get back to us if you need more help.
Thanks for your suggestion and downloaded the driver and successfully compiled it and restarted the system but nothing was changed i followed acc to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syZcfQ8cgQM and before that i tried to download the driver and tried to compiled it but all of them failed however the one showed in the video worked but after installation of driver it shows like this

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sudo airmon-ng
ls: cannot access '/sys/class/ieee80211/': No such file or directory

PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

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$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path        Device     Class       Description
==================================================
                           system      To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
/0                         bus         To be filled by O.E.M.
/0/0                       memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                       processor   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4500  @ 2.20GHz
/0/4/5                     memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                     memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/f                       memory      3GiB System Memory
/0/f/0                     memory      1GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/1                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/f/2                     memory      2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/3                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/100                     bridge      82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
/0/100/2                   display     82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b                  multimedia  NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                  bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0   eth0       network     RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d                  bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e                  bridge      82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                  bridge      82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.1                storage     82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2                storage     NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/1            scsi3      storage     
/0/1/0.1.0      /dev/sda   disk        500GB ST3500414CS
/0/1/0.1.0/1    /dev/sda1  volume      500MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/2    /dev/sda2  volume      84GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/3    /dev/sda3  volume      85GiB EXT4 volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4    /dev/sda4  volume      295GiB Extended partition
/0/1/0.1.0/4/5  /dev/sda5  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/6  /dev/sda6  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/7  /dev/sda7  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/8  /dev/sda8  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
These are the outputs i hope somebody will help me with the issue. Thanks in advance

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:45 am
by sunrat
vamsi wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:26 am
Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 am Thanks. Now that we know the name, there's a lot of info on how to install this to be found in a web search on "linux Realtek RTL8188FTV Wireless LAN." I haven't looked closely, but I see lots of solutions you might want to look through. Get back to us if you need more help.
Thanks for your suggestion and downloaded the driver and successfully compiled it and restarted the system but nothing was changed i followed acc to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syZcfQ8cgQM and before that i tried to download the driver and tried to compiled it but all of them failed ...
That video shows a process for installing a completely different driver than what you need. Another result from searching as Jerry suggested leads to this which should be the right driver:
https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8188fu

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:20 am
by vamsi
sunrat wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:45 am
vamsi wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:26 am
Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 am Thanks. Now that we know the name, there's a lot of info on how to install this to be found in a web search on "linux Realtek RTL8188FTV Wireless LAN." I haven't looked closely, but I see lots of solutions you might want to look through. Get back to us if you need more help.
Thanks for your suggestion and downloaded the driver and successfully compiled it and restarted the system but nothing was changed i followed acc to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syZcfQ8cgQM and before that i tried to download the driver and tried to compiled it but all of them failed ...
That video shows a process for installing a completely different driver than what you need. Another result from searching as Jerry suggested leads to this which should be the right driver:
https://github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8188fu
Thank you for your suggestion and installed the driver perfectly but nothing changed after installing this driver i couldn't understand the real problem. Thanks in advance

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$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path        Device     Class       Description
==================================================
                           system      To Be Filled By O.E.M. (To Be Filled By O.E.M.)
/0                         bus         To be filled by O.E.M.
/0/0                       memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4                       processor   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4500  @ 2.20GHz
/0/4/5                     memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                     memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/f                       memory      3GiB System Memory
/0/f/0                     memory      1GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/1                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/f/2                     memory      2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/3                     memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/100                     bridge      82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
/0/100/2                   display     82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b                  multimedia  NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c                  bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                bridge      NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0   eth0       network     RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d                  bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e                  bridge      82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                  bridge      82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.1                storage     82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2                storage     NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3                bus         NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/1            scsi3      storage     
/0/1/0.1.0      /dev/sda   disk        500GB ST3500414CS
/0/1/0.1.0/1    /dev/sda1  volume      500MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/2    /dev/sda2  volume      84GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/3    /dev/sda3  volume      85GiB EXT4 volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4    /dev/sda4  volume      295GiB Extended partition
/0/1/0.1.0/4/5  /dev/sda5  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/6  /dev/sda6  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/7  /dev/sda7  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.1.0/4/8  /dev/sda8  volume      73GiB Windows NTFS volume

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:41 pm
by Head_on_a_Stick
vamsi wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:20 am installed the driver perfectly
Is the module actually present in your system? Perhaps you didn't install it correctly.

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lsmod | grep rtl8188

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 4:56 am
by vamsi
Head_on_a_Stick wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:41 pm
vamsi wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:20 am installed the driver perfectly
Is the module actually present in your system? Perhaps you didn't install it correctly.

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lsmod | grep rtl8188

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$ lsmod | grep rtl8188
it is not showing any error or message when i issued this command

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:26 am
by sunrat
vamsi wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 4:56 am

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$ lsmod | grep rtl8188
it is not showing any error or message when i issued this command
It should return the name of the driver if it is loaded. Showing nothing means it is not.
Post the output from:

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sudo modprobe rtl8188fu

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:44 am
by vamsi
sunrat wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:26 am
vamsi wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 4:56 am

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$ lsmod | grep rtl8188
it is not showing any error or message when i issued this command
It should return the name of the driver if it is loaded. Showing nothing means it is not.
Post the output from:

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sudo modprobe rtl8188fu

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sudo modprobe rtl8188fu
modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8188fu not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.0-5-amd64

Re: Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:21 pm
by vamsi
Tried to install with this and wifi dongle works fine
https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu

Re: [Solved] Wifi device not detected in MX

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:27 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
Yep: viewtopic.php?p=591444#p591444
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