[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Mike Martin]

2009/7/21 Jon Reynolds <maillist at jcrdevelopments.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I have acquired an Edimax USB Wireless dongle, hoping it would just
> plug-n-play with Ubuntu but it hasn't, or at least not on the laptop I
> am trying to install it on, an old Dell Latitude.
>
> Here's the dongle:
> http://www.edimax.co.uk/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=3&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44
>
> The laptop seems to recognise the hardware as far as I can tell but it
> certainly isn't working as it should; i.e. no wireless networks detected
> in Network Manager.
>
> I think the laptop is just USB1.0 so whether that prevents it from
> working I don't know.
>
> But I just need some pointers to the obvious steps to take to try and
> check whats working and whats not. It came with some linux drivers, but
> I just get errors when trying to compile them that I don't understand.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jon Reynolds
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what is the output of
lsusb
dmesg after you plug it in
lsmod - is kt73 loaded

It seems to use rt73 module (which I think is the same as mine which
works in fedora and an ancient laptop, K6, running puppy) so it should
just work