On 18/07/19 2:44 AM, Richard Hobson wrote: > 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?
Maybe, but maybe not. Are there other attempts later, with different files? IIRC it's relatively normal to try different files till you get the right one. I suspect that file is present, or it wouldn't be able to try to load it. And it seems to be provided in the firmware-realtek package, suggesting you already have that package. But it could be corrupted, I suppose. Or your hardware might require newer firmware, though that seems unlikely if OpenSUSE worked and buster doesn't. BTW please don't top-post on the list - the rest of us don't, so it really confuses the order of the conversation :-) Richard
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