Oh yes it comes with its own driver. The thing is how was I able to install over WiFi if there wasn't a fedora driver available. I have a gut feeling it's my lack of knowledge of how the cli tools work. Can fedora scan for an appropriate driver and install?
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 1:53 PM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
_______________________________________________On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:56 PM Bill C <bill.cu1234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:This thing is an antenna that plugs into the USB portIt also includes a radio. These units may need to load vendor firmware foruse, and do require a specific driver, which may come from the vendor orsome open-source project. If you post details of your device someonemay be able to tell you how to use it with current Fedora.Use "lsusb"to find the device name and bus location. For example (showing only the wifi device):Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN AdapterAlso run `lshw --wlan`. The entry for the above device is:22: USB 00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: i1H1.x9IMWGGtcg8
Parent ID: cLrx.8T3QcmdDop7
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-2.3:1.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter"
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x0bda "Realtek Semiconductor Corp."
Device: usb 0x8176 "RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter"
Revision: "2.00"
Serial ID: "00e04c000001"
Driver: "rtl8192cu"
Driver Modules: "rtl8192cu"
Device File: wlp0s20u2u3
Features: WLANSpeed: 12 MbpsHW Address: aa:fe:01:c4:37:fa
Permanent HW Address: 8c:ae:4c:f8:01:56
Link detected: no
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "usb:v0BDAp8176d0200dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rtl8192cu is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8192cu"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: rtl8xxxu is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rtl8xxxu"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #21 (Hub)Look for the "Link detected" and "Driver" entries. Run `ls mod | grep <driver_name>`, e.g.,% ls mod | grep rtl8192crtl8192cu 94208 0
rtl_usb 28672 1 rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common 69632 1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi 110592 3 rtl8192c_common,rtl_usb,rtl8192cu
mac80211 1298432 4 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu,rtlwifi,rtl8xxxuYou also look in journalctl for messages related to these modules.--George N. White III
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