My worst wireless dongle makefile nightmare

[chili555]

Please take the old one, wlan7, out and lock it in the trunk of your car...unless, of course, you need it to connect to reply to this forum. It is too confusing to the system and me! Insert the new device, and run:

iwconfig
dmesg | grep -e rt2 -e rt3

Thanks

[cyberhood]

lol, sorry

~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

~$ dmesg | grep -e rt2 -e rt3
[   10.916490] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   10.944763] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870

[chili555]

Those low timestamps in dmesg, 10.xx, are undoubtedly when the computer booted. Leaving your device plugged in and the other in the trunk, please do:

sudo ifconfig wlan7 down
sudo rmmod -f rt2870sta
sudo modprobe rt2800usb
iwconfig

Thanks. Is the other device an rt2870sta device?

[cyberhood]

~$ sudo ifconfig wlan7 down
wlan7: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
~$ sudo rmmod -f rt2870sta
~$ sudo modprobe rt2800usb
~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan8     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I don't know what chip the old dongle has. Do I have to take it outta the trunk to find out?

[chili555]

wlan8 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated

Woo hoo! You have a wireless interface! Now can you click that ole Network Manager icon and connect?

Let's leave the other dongle in jail for now. We can return to it later.

[cyberhood]

...using WICD. Opened it up, can't see any wireless networks to connect to. Went to preferences, changed wlan7 to wlan8. Refreshed. Still nothing.

[chili555]

Please detach the ethernet cable, open a terminal and do:

sudo ifconfig wlan8 up
sudo iwlist wlan8 scan

If you get scan results, does Wicd see networks now? Does it connect?

[cyberhood]

I'm not connected with a cable. I'm posting wirelessly from a different computer.

~$ sudo ifconfig wlan8 up
wlan8: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
~$ sudo iwlist wlan8 scan
wlan8     Interface doesn't support scanning.

[chili555]

wlan8: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

What???

I thought we just saw it. Please let me see:

iwconfig
ifconfig

Thanks.

[cyberhood]

Hmm... strange, yes. I repeated the previous steps and got it back up somehow.

~$ sudo ifconfig wlan8 up
~$ sudo iwlist wlan8 scan
wlan8     No scan results

~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan8     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=19 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:85:97:b6:6a  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:28 Base address:0xc000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan8     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:4f:77:00:0c:d5  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-4F-77-00-0C-D5-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Note: now the light on the dongle is blinking.