WiPi wifi dongle not working

1st Official Post

    I have a raspberry pi 1 model B. When I first plugged it in, it restarted and I came on. I could go to Libreelec settings and see my wi-fi. I connected and under connections it said ready. However I couldn't do anything that require internet. Then I noticed the blue light on the dongle was off. Now it's not showing up under settings, even if I unplug and plug back in. I looked through the forms and couldn't figure it out. I did see where people ran these commands before posting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Still a bit noob

    LibreELEC (official) Version: 7.0.3
    KodiBox:~ #
    KodiBox:~ # lsusb
    Bus 001 Device 008: ID 3938:1032
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9512/9514 USB Hub
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    KodiBox:~ # lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    8021q 16343 0
    bcm2835_gpiomem 2791 0
    bcm2835_wdt 2922 0


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    • Official Post

    Have you checked this dongle on another machine to see it's not broken?

    It's an electrical active device which might get broken if its time has come. So please check on a windows PC if it works there. If yes, plug it back into your RPi and also get us a: dmesg | pastebinit

    I plugged it into my PC and it registered as an unknown device. Will post dmesg when I can run it.
    Thank you for your help.
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    Edited once, last by TabbT (January 8, 2017 at 8:03 AM).