Here are some corrections, I did not really run these commands that way.
2021-03-11 20:38 GMT-04:00, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z <santiagopi...@gmail.com>:
> 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek
sudo apt install <path-to-firmware-realtek>
> 5-. Executed: sudo depmod -a
sudo /sbin/depmod -a
> 6-. Executed: sudo modprobe r8712u
sudo /sbin/modprobe r8712u
2021-03-11 20:55 GMT-04:00, IL Ka <kazakevichi...@gmail.com>:
> Lets see if driver was able to run your card:
>
> Check output of
> $ lspci
bash: lspci: command not found :)
It was not under /bin nor /sbin
> $ iw dev
This didn't show anything
> $ ip link show
user@debian:/sbin$ ./ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp0s25: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1e:4f:d6:1e:70 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> If everything is ok, check if your card can see any network
>
> $ iw dev [YOUR_CARD_DEVICE] scan
There are no devices so I didn't run this.
2021-03-12 5:16 GMT-04:00, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi>:
> lsusb is going to be more useful with a USB device.
bash: lsusb: command not found
:)
2021-03-11 23:14 GMT-04:00, Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com>:
> Erm, possibly because firmware-realtek doesn't support that particular
> adapter (??). It supports variants of the 8191, but I don't see the SU.
>
> I say, possibly, because Realtek firmware is screwy.
I don't know:
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#supported-r8712u
> There are also USB WiFi adapters that simply don't play with Linux.
I wish this is not the case.
