Hardware • Wireless not working

In my case, the USB dongle RTL8153 shows up in lshw but appears to be a Wired Connection with its network "Cable Unplugged". Here is the lshw output, note it seems to use driver=r8152 which is cool, and it correctly id's in Network Manager as a RTL8153, but cannot be configured as WiFi:

                       *-usb                            description: Generic USB device                            product: USB 10/100/1000 LAN                            vendor: Realtek                            physical id: 3                            bus info: usb@3:2.3.3                            version: 30.00                            serial: 000001                            capabilities: usb-3.20                            configuration: driver=r8152 maxpower=288mA speed=5000Mbit/s

Here is the section of 'ip a' that appears relevant, should be a 'wl' interface, but appears as 'en' ("DOWN" is bad, right?)

4: enx8cae4cee72f4: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000    link/ether 8c:ae:4c:ee:72:f4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I also have Linux Mint 22 (ubuntu deriv) and it configures fine as WiFi OOB. LMDE seems to have a slightly different problem, fails to install a "non-free-driver" but this is a total headscratcher. Must be hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands of these cheap rtl8152 descendants out on the street.

Bookworm fresh install if that matters. TIA!

Statistics: Posted by almoendaledeb — 2024-11-16 02:51 — Replies 3 — Views 82

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