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I am a novice and for over 2 months I have been using Cauldron via ethernet. I tried it
once with wi-fi using my smarthphones hot-spot and it worked about a month ago. But I no
longer have access to ethernet or a router, and must temporarily rely on my smartphone's
hot-spot. But the network manager does not find any wi-fi signals. My wi-fi is on
board ( Atheros ?? ) ASUS.

I purchased 2 different USB dongles and neither worked.

I tested both of those dongles on an old Windows 8.0 pc, and I regret to inform you
they both work and I am sending this message via Windows. That is a real bummer
as I had gone without Windows since May 12th, and have been on Cauldron since mid-July.

Any suggestions ?

Please don't always state that you are a novice.

You find out which controller you have

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# lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 wireless

I always had the same problem with my Atheros AR9485 using Mageia, and I sucessfully switched to networkmanager.
See How to switch from net_applet to NetworkManager

Greetings
Bequimão

Apart from what Bequimao already mentioned, a few more bits of information would be helpful, so please provide the output of the following commands as regular user:

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lspcidrake -v|grep -iE "wlan|wifi|wireless|net"
ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -iE "net|wpa"


and, as root:

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ifconfig -a
rfkill list all
systemctl status network.service -a
journalctl -ab | grep -iE "fw|firmware|iwl|wifi|wire|80211"