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Velcrone

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Registered: 2020-05-24

Posts: 14

Wifi adapter not working

Hi!
I’ve been trying to get my usb network adapter to work but whenever I give it the command:

ip link set wlp3s0f0u3 up

I get the error:

RTNETLINK answers: operation not permitted

The usb WiFi adapter is a TLink Archer T2U with a Ralink MY7610U (according to lsusb). It worked fine in Fedora and Manjaro and this is my first time having problems with it.

The adapter does show up as an available interface

Rfkill is not locking it (everything is set to “no”)

It would be nice if I didn’t need to connect to the internet for the solution as my computor is not connected but I can run a looong Ethernet if need be (I’m using my phone for this post).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,701

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Did you run that command with root privileges?

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Velcrone

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Registered: 2020-05-24

Posts: 14

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Yes I did(forgot to mention that) while it did not give an error, it continued to come up as down when I checked with the

ip a

command

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,776

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Yes I did … while it did not give an error…

Then why did you ask about an error that you know was related to your user privs???

it continued to come up as down

Did it? Please post the complete "ip a" output.
Spoiler: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … _interface - last sentence.

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Velcrone

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Registered: 2020-05-24

Posts: 14

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Didn’t realize it was a permission issue. Sorry for the confusion. Here’s the entry for the adapter when I run ip a.

3: wlp3s0f0u3: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST ,MULTICAST ,UP>  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether da:20:46:0f:85:06 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Last edited by Velcrone (2020-06-27 18:10:27)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Wifi adapter not working

3: wlp3s0f0u3: <NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST ,MULTICAST ,UP>  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000

The interface is up '<NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST ,MULTICAST ,UP>'.

Last edited by loqs (2020-06-27 18:11:13)

Velcrone

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Registered: 2020-05-24

Posts: 14

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Just realized that! Sorry if I wasted anyone’s time!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,776

Re: Wifi adapter not working

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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