[SWLUG] Wireless USB Dongle Help

[Mike Martin]

2009/7/27 Jon Reynolds <maillist at jcrdevelopments.com>:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:32:00AM +0100, Justin Mitchell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>> > 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
>>
>> that last command would bring the interface up, but only if it has
>> already been configured with an ip address and so on.
>>
>> you can check what the wireless settings (like channel, ssid etc) are
>> with iwconfig.
>>
>> try doing a scan for an access point: sudo iwlist rausb0 scan
>>
>>
>> but really, once there is a valid network device, that lists its mac
>> address and so on under iwconfig, then the rest of the setup should be
>> handled by the gui tools like networkmanager.
>>
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>
> Well things once again are progressing a bit more. Don't get the chance
> on this laptop very often.
>
> Well this time...all I did was:
>
> sudo modprobe rt73
> then a restart with the dongle plugged in.
> this time it booted up with the dongle coming alive on its own (a first)
> network-manager found wireless networks (again a first!)
> but it still doesn't connect. I do the usuals to connect but it just
> seems to keep 'connecting...' and never gets anywhere.
>
> So close yet so far.
>
> Is there some way I can monitor what it is trying to do whilst its
> 'connecting'? And why it might not be working?
>
> Cheers for the help so far.
>
> Jon Reynolds
>

right-click on network manager applet - > choose edit connections,
then select auto-wireless (or some such tab) and see what the
auth/connection settings are

Also do you wired as well - if so disable the setting in nm and start
it manually (if you need it), then start wireless