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Re: WiFi card comes up as device lo0




On 5/19/2019 1:51 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
Carl Miller <ka5kab%comcast.net@localhost> writes:

Does this mean this card is not supported or does it mean it just
needs to be configured? This card uses the RTL8185L chip but not sure
what the brand/manufacturer is. Looking over the manual pages it looks
like the closest driver for this card would be rtw.
It means that it was not attached.  There could be lots of reasons.
Look at the output of 'dmesg' for unconfigured devices.  Use usbdevs and
pcictl (read the man pages first) to see what hardware exists.
Sometimes a driver needs to have an additional id added to the list of
what it matches and claims.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "not attached"? Sorry for the noob question but I'm trying to learn the OS and I'm not familiar with all of the jargon yet.

Thanks for your response.

Carl




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