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I have a wireless dongle that seems to be installed correctly, but no wireless adapter appears in my network manager and I can't debug the issue.

I've ran wireless-info from: My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue? and my wireless-info.txt is: https://pastebin.com/nddpF5S9

Any suggestions?

sinjax
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We have seen many rtl8192cu cases where two drivers load and conflict. Let's blacklist one and see if it helps; if not, we'll try the other.

From the terminal:

sudo -i
echo "blacklist rtl8192cu"  >  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl8192cu.conf
exit

Reboot. Any improvement?

If not, we'll reverse it:

sudo -i
rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl8192cu.conf
echo "blacklist rtl8xxxu"  >  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl8xxxu.conf
exit

Reboot.

Depending on your results, we'll further refine this answer.

chili555
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In then end I upgraded to 18.04 on this machine and the dongle worked. Not the most satisfying result but hopefully it saves someone time.

sinjax
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