Unable to activate wifi on Linux

[dkebler]

So turns out the module does have two adapters.  The default solution was to disable one (wlan1)which was done in the interfaces.d folder
But this via the old (pre systemd) networking service which one disables when using NetworkManger or systemd-networkd.  So when I did that I saw the second one wlan1.

So I did disable wlan1 (unmanage it) in network manager but I still can't get wlan0 (via network manager) to look for available networks so I can connect.

Code:

pine64@pine64:~$ nmcli dev
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION
eth0    ethernet  connected     eth0       
wlan0   wifi      disconnected  --         
dummy0  dummy     unmanaged     --         
sit0    iptunnel  unmanaged     --         
lo      loopback  unmanaged     --         
wlan1   wifi      unmanaged     --         
pine64@pine64:~$

So either my wifi module is bad or I am missing some settings in network manager.

using 'ip'  I get this

Code:

pine64@pine64:~$ sudo ip link set wlan0 up
pine64@pine64:~$ ip link show wlan0
5: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 34:c3:d2:e4:38:ce brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:fflink

the NM applet shows  for wlan0 just "disconnected" instead of available networks

Anyone been down the wifi module, ayufan latest stable, network manager rabbit hole and know what I am missing here.
I'm going with a bad radio (sadly) at this point as adaptor itself seems ok and "up"
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btw now I don't see wlan1 since it's unmanaged (down)

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3e:b6:98:a9:76:df  
          inet addr:192.168.0.53  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::3cb6:98ff:fea9:76df/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16703 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1842689 (1.8 MB)  TX bytes:6552931 (6.5 MB)
          Interrupt:114

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:84230 (84.2 KB)  TX bytes:84230 (84.2 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 34:c3:d2:e4:38:ce  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes: