HOWTO: RT2500, etc. wireless cards

[Erik.]

I have the same problem, my led on the wireless card is always on and not blinking.
My router does not see my computer when it says it is connected.
I want to now it the driver + n dis wrappers works on 8.04 i can do i try.
I am using the bcm43xx chip

[wieman01]

I don't have any drivers installed yet, i made a clean install of 8.04.
Should i follow the thread of the bcm43xx driver?

Yes, this would be an option indeed.

[Erik.]

ok, i will try and i will let you know if it helped...

[Erik.]

ok,

I followed this thread:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eisty_No-Fluff

When i rebooted my led blinked 2 or 3 times, now i do not have wireless internet and my led is always on.
Whats my problem now?

My output:

erik@erik-desktop:~$ lshw -C network 
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:05:06.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:0f:66:1d:6e:b4
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes ip=172.27.183.222 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

[wieman01]

Erik.,

Please open a new thread as this tutorial is for Ralink based adapters only.

[Erik.]

oh ok
thanks for helping me here!

[studentz]

I'm stuck, the device is (RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI), driver ndiswrapper is on , but I cannot connect to the router. I tried: router without security instead of wpa, kernel pci=noacpi, wicd instead of network manager app please help me out.

Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
2.6.22-14-generic

lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:11:09:0f:1e:ae
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+rt2500 driverversion=1.45+Ralink Technology, Inc.,06/ latency=64 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 74
serial: 00:40:45:27:32:14
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 ip=192.168.2.106 latency=64 maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes

sudo ndiswrapper -l
rt2500 : driver installed
device (1814:0201) present (alternate driver: rt2500pci)

iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 No scan results

[wieman01]

studentz,

Please issue:

sudo iwlist scan

Sometime this command does not yield any results if you don't add "sudo".

Are you on a 64-bit system? Have you got the right drivers? Everything looks OK in fact...

[studentz]

Hi weiman01.

My laptop is 32-bit before I upgraded to hardy my wireless worked fine.
I post the rest of inf.

Thanks

sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password :
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.


# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0

[bcrowell]

(((Oops -- I meant to post this as a reply to http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=487 . I messed up and posted it at the end of the thread, so now I'm editing to add this note.)))

Thanks for the reply!

Now it's working, but I'm darned if I know why! The following is a listing of the output of the commands you suggested. This is obviously a lot less interesting than a listing under the condition where it's not working. If it fails again in the future, I'll post again.

root@fluffy:/home/icrowell# iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:1D:7E:20:35:3A
                    ESSID:"crangelos"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality=48/100  Signal level=-70 dBm  
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=0000090e6a041125
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:1B:2F:49:64:8A
                    ESSID:"JOSIAH080507"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:11
                    Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
                    Quality=47/100  Signal level=-76 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=000002a16734e144

root@fluffy:/home/icrowell# lshw -C network
  *-network:0             
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
       vendor: RaLink
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:1c:10:e3:5c:85
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci ip=192.168.1.104 latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 13
       bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:1d:7d:20:30:0a
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s

root@fluffy:/home/icrowell# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
root@fluffy:/home/icrowell# ndiswrapper -l
rt61 : driver installed
	device (1814:0301) present (alternate driver: rt61pci)