USB Wi-Fi adapter keep failing

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lattimro
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USB Wi-Fi adapter keep failing

Post by lattimro » 2021/07/25 02:48:42

Hi everyone,

I installed CentOS8.4 and the Wi-Fi adapter can't connect to the network. It keeps trying to connect and fails ... The thing is working fine on other distros: debian-like, arch, SUSE, BSD-like.

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lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:818b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n WLAN Adapter

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nmcli d
DEVICE       TYPE      STATE                     CONNECTION         
enp2s0       ethernet  connected                 enp2s0             
virbr0       bridge    connected (externally)    virbr0             
virbr0-nic   tun       connected (externally)    virbr0-nic         
wlp0s29u1u5  wifi      connecting (configuring)  TP-LINK_DD6362_EXT 
lo           loopback  unmanaged                 --                

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ethtool -i wlp0s29u1u5
driver: rtl8xxxu
version: 4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4.x86_64
firmware-version: N/A
expansion-rom-version: 
bus-info: 2-1.3:1.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no

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lshw -class network 
  *-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: enp2s0
       version: 06
       serial: a4:1f:72:65:4a:89
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4.x86_64 duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.0.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:16 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 6
       bus info: usb@2:1.3
       logical name: wlp0s29u1u5
       serial: 00:1e:a6:fa:13:ba
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8xxxu driverversion=4.18.0-305.10.2.el8_4.x86_64 firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes

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