[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Jon Reynolds]

Hiya,

OK Results:

/var/log/messages after plugging the dongle in:

Jul 21 21:49:21 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.008118] usb 1-1: new full
speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Jul 21 21:49:21 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.310683] usb 1-1:
configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.715685] Registered led
device: rt73usb-phy3:radio
Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.715716] Registered led
device: rt73usb-phy3:assoc
Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.715745] Registered led
device: rt73usb-phy3:quality
Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [  613.730452] udev: renamed network
interface wlan0 to wlan1

lsusb:

jonr at lisa-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501USB
Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Some lsmod results:

jonr at lisa-laptop:~$ lsmod | grep kt73
jonr at lisa-laptop:~$ lsmod | grep 73
rt73usb                33412  0 
crc_itu_t              10112  1 rt73usb
rt2x00usb              18688  2 rt73usb,rt2500usb
rt2x00lib              37888  3 rt73usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb

Hope this is meaningful to someone :)

Thanks for your help

Jon Reynolds

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:37:01PM +0100, Mike Martin wrote:
> 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
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