Thanks for the suggestion Roger.
I'm not sure how to search the dsmesg output so I unplugged the device and
replugged it so that the relevant message appeared at the bottom of the
output. (I know, RTFM!).
The dongle is being correctly identified as far as I can see, says the
manufacturer is Realtek, the chipset maker, and picks up the MAC address
amongst other things.
I'm having to transpose the following info manually, obviously can't copy
and paste to mail! The important messages seem to be. (EOE)
usb 1-2: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
usb 1-2: firmware failed to load rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin (-2)
usb 1-2: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin failed with error -2
usb 1-2: r8712u: Firmware request failed.
Does this suggest the appropriate firmware isn't available locally?
If so some help on how I obtain it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, RH
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Roger Price wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Richard Hobson wrote:
...I use a USB dongle (StarTech) for practical reasons. I've previously
used this in an installation of OpenSuse on the same machine and although
it wasn't detected at install time it was on first boot and I was able to
use the graphical configuration tool to set it up, ...
Perhaps openSUSE automatically loaded the required firmware, but Debian does
not. Does dmesg have anything to say about StarTech firmware?
Roger
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