Date: 12/02/2020 15:38:27
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1499756
Subject: Still Linux woes

Still Linux woes. It now reboots without losing files. Good.
But I’ve lost all Wifi connection. It was there before. Bad.
Linux is now mint distro.

WiFi is through a D-Link DWA-131 plugged into a USB port. The USB is supposed to light up when plugged in. It doesn’t.
So either a WiFi driver fault or a reading USB fault.

I downloaded a D-Link driver for DWA-131 and followed all the instructions in the Readme file. Got as far as:

Reply Quote
Date: 12/02/2020 15:54:12
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1499762
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

installed gparted and it didn’t recognise anything – as a WiFi dongle I didn’t expect it to,

Put a USB mouse in all USB ports and it was recognised in all.

Put a flash drive in USB port and it lit up. But not recognised by gparted – it should have been.

Reply Quote
Date: 12/02/2020 16:21:08
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1499770
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

mollwollfumble said:


installed gparted and it didn’t recognise anything – as a WiFi dongle I didn’t expect it to,

Put a USB mouse in all USB ports and it was recognised in all.

Put a flash drive in USB port and it lit up. But not recognised by gparted – it should have been.

Is the usb drive formatted properly ?

Reply Quote
Date: 12/02/2020 16:45:07
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1499783
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

Tau.Neutrino said:


mollwollfumble said:

installed gparted and it didn’t recognise anything – as a WiFi dongle I didn’t expect it to,

Put a USB mouse in all USB ports and it was recognised in all.

Put a flash drive in USB port and it lit up. But not recognised by gparted – it should have been.

Is the usb drive formatted properly ?

Have you had a look at these?

Gparted Manual
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual

Creating a New Partition Table
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-create-partition-table

The bit on partition size
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-type

GParted Live on USB
https://gparted.org/liveusb.php

Reply Quote
Date: 12/02/2020 16:47:42
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1499785
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

Have you tried re downloading it, and go through the process again ?

Reply Quote
Date: 12/02/2020 18:29:52
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1499843
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

Tau.Neutrino said:


Have you tried re downloading it, and go through the process again ?

Yes.

Reply Quote
Date: 13/02/2020 10:33:46
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1499986
Subject: re: Still Linux woes

Huh? Started working without warning. I don’t know if it was typing the mount command or just rebooting, or even playing a DVD.

Either way, it gives a signal strength, which allowed me to realise that the internal WiFi is working again (it died when the laptop was dropped and cracked five or so years ago) and gives much better signal strength than the USB WiFi plugin.

So, what’s next. Checking what C can and can’t do with OpenGL, and putting more shortcuts on the desktop I suppose.

Whew!

Reply Quote