Wireless not connecting...

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 31 May 2019 21:38:40 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:43:03PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Fri, 31 May 2019 15:21:53 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > At Fri, 31 May 2019 14:17:54 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 13:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Network install using Ethernet / PXE.  The hardwired NIC is working just fine
> > > > > (also a Realtex chip).
> > > > 
> > > > Wow. OK. The last time I set that kind of thing up, it was to install
> > > > Red Hat Linux 4.x onto a SPARCstation!
> > > > 
> > > > But if you're happy with it, then netboot Mint or Fedora or something,
> > > > just to see if Wifi works.
> > > 
> > > OK, I just booted Mint 19.1 -- *same exact* behavior.  Right now, I am dd'ing 
> > > Ubuntu 19.04 to a thumb drive, just to see if that makes any difference...
> > 
> > And the same for Ubuntu 19.04...  The behavior is too much like trying to 
> > connect to a too far distant AP -- close enough to see the SSID, but not 
> > close enough to make a solid connection, *except* iwconfig is showing a good 
> > signal.  Something is definately weird here.  
> 
> I guess you could just check to see what it is actually running and see if
> for some reason to most recent drivers have a problem.
> I don't remember exactly the issue I had but for some reason I finally
> removed some modules and loaded the new one to bring up the
> wireless. I think i just needed the most recent driver and had to build
> from source but there may have been other issues,  
> 
> 
> mods=`lsmod | awk  '{print $1}' | grep rt2 `
> 
> rmmod $mods 2>> $MON
> 
> insmod `find /home/marchywka/drivers -name rt3070sta.ko` 2>> $MON


At this point, it is not worth the effort to do anything else.  The librarian 
has already put a bright red sticker pointing at the Ethernet Jack.  Time to 
"cut and run"...

> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Given that the machine's battery is kaput (and thus it must be tethered to its 
> > power brick), being tethered to an Ethernet cord is probably not a serious 
> > problem.  And of course it is still usable to edit documents residing on thumb 
> > drives.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
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