[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Jon Reynolds]

I am still struggling with this. I am getting somewhere a bit...

I have been following some similar instructions I found on a forum and
got to the point where I finally had the LED on the dongle flashing!!

But then I lost it again. 

I have been trying to blacklist the driver I don't want (rt2500usb I
believe) and then some commands like:

sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe rt73
sudo ifconfig rausb0 inet up


At first that made the LED come to life... but now its not doing it
anymore.

Feel close... but not close enough.

Cheers

Jon Reynolds

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:56:17AM +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> OK I downloaded the latest RT73 driver from Ralink (?) website and that
> seems to have compiled without error. 
> 
> Next question though is how to make use of it... i.e. get rid of the old
> one... I think RT2500 and make the RT73 new one be in use... modprobe
> something or other?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jon Reynolds
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:00:05PM +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > Ah more details from dmesg, sorry thought it was the same as
> > /var/log/messages but it highlights some errors:
> > 
> > [  607.768524] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request
> > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
> > [  607.768558] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request
> > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
> > [  607.768589] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request
> > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
> > [  613.008118] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> > address 3
> > [  613.310683] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > [  613.431044] phy2 -> rt2500usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset
> > detected.
> > [  613.431057] phy2 -> rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate
> > device.
> > [  613.713961] phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
> > [  613.715685] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:radio
> > [  613.715716] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:assoc
> > [  613.715745] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:quality
> > [  613.730452] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1
> > 
> > 
> > Hope thats more meaningful.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Jon Reynolds
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:58:19PM +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > > Thanks Pete,
> > > 
> > > Will feedback those commands later when I get home.
> > > 
> > > I do remember trying lsusb and it certainly appeared there... couldn't
> > > tell you about the driver though (from memory)
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Jon Reynolds
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:32:38PM +0100, Pete Prior wrote:
> > > > First step would be to run lsusb when its plugged in and see what it
> > > > identifies itself as. 
> > > > Output from running dmesg would also be helpful.
> > > > 
> > > > Pete
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:43:41 +0100, Jon Reynolds
> > > > <maillist at jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> > > > > 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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