The title question says it all.
I've been working to answer it for my computer for the last 12 hours. I've read many articles, attempted many tricks and am more or less where I was with this problem at the start.
I won't waste breath here citing a bunch of info that may not be needed to resolve the issue, so I'll just follow the title question with this: What do you need to know about my setup, hardware, software or experience to help me (and struggling users like me) get at a solution?
Thanks in advance.
+Ralston
UPDATE: Jan 9
At the direction of fossfreedom I'm sharing the output of multiple terminal commands.
Command: rfkill list all
USB Adaptor: Plugged in.
Yield: Absolutely nothing. (Entered this command multiple times to make sure I was getting it right. Each time no result was returned by the terminal.)
Command: sudo lshw -class network
USB Adaptor: Plugged in.
Yield: Displays PCI (sysfs)
for just a few seconds then produces the following:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0000:02:0f.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:0e:a6:42:ba:24
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.88 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:19 ioport:b800(size=256) memory:feafec00-feafecff
Command: lsusb
USB Adaptor: Plugged in.
Yield:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 050d:0050 Belkin Components F5D6050 802.11b Wireless Adapter v2000 [Atmel at76c503a]
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0b38:0010 Gear Head 107-Key Keyboard
Command: dmesg
USB Adaptor: Plugged in and unplugged.
Yield: This command displays quite a bit of data. I pasted it all here--both the results from when the device was plugged in and unplugged. However, when I attempted to post the updates to my question here with all that data, I got this "Oops" message: "body is limited to 30000 characters; you entered 74516." If this info is really needed to help troubleshoot my problem, I think I'm going to need another way to post it. Or, if there is a particular line or set of lines that is most important in the results of the dmesg
command, please let me know and I'll look for it and add it here.
UPDATE: Jan 9
Used the paste.ubuntu.com service for the dmesg command results. Both unplugged and plugged in results can be seen below.
Command: dmesg
USB Adaptor: Unplugged.
Yield: Pasted Unplugged Results
This command displays a lot of data. I'm not sure if the Terminal has some line limit, but it looks as if the results of this command exceeded that limit. If it is necessary, please let me know if there is some way to pause the results like dir /P
in DOS.
Command: dmesg
USB Adaptor: Plugged in.
Yield: Pasted Plugged-in Results
I haven't got through each line to note any differences (not even sure what I'd be looking for), but here are the results.
rfkill list all
,sudo lshw -class network
,lsusb
. Also, disconnect your usb device, typedmesg
- plug in your usb device, typedmesg
- you should see some new output. we need to see that as well.