Wireless not connecting...

[Mike Marchywka]

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



> 
> 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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