HOWTO: RT2500, etc. wireless cards

[tragicglee]

sudo lshw -C network
 *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:03:08.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:11:11:e4:9c:1a
       size: 100MB/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=e100 driverversion=3.5.17-k4-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=74.76.203.159 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=56 mingnt=8 module=e100 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan1
       serial: 00:15:e9:33:8d:a5
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+netrtusb driverversion=1.52+D-Link,06/30/2004, 1.02.00. link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

[tragicglee]

tragicglee,

This is so weird, have heard of it before.

It's. Absolutely. Maddening! Somehow, it'd almost be easier to deal with if it happened every time I booted into XP, or if it happened after booting into another distro. But no, only XP. And there's never anything abnormally wrong with those XP sessions. I've seen somebody suggest it's a problem with hibernate/suspend, but I don't do either.

It's working now. I'm going to check my other 7.10 install later and see if it's also working there. If it isn't, I'll assume I did something right with this one, and try to figure out exactly what, so I can post the info on the off chance it will help anyone who runs into this at some point.

Thanks for being willing to help, wieman01. You're a saint :)

[wieman01]

It's. Absolutely. Maddening! Somehow, it'd almost be easier to deal with if it happened every time I booted into XP, or if it happened after booting into another distro. But no, only XP. And there's never anything abnormally wrong with those XP sessions. I've seen somebody suggest it's a problem with hibernate/suspend, but I don't do either.

It's working now. I'm going to check my other 7.10 install later and see if it's also working there. If it isn't, I'll assume I did something right with this one, and try to figure out exactly what, so I can post the info on the off chance it will help anyone who runs into this at some point.

Thanks for being willing to help, wieman01. You're a saint

Thanks, mate.

Wipe out XP... That's the best advice I can give. Lol!

[Scoobylu]

I'm a total noob when it comes to Linux; I only installed it yesterday. I can't seem to get my wireless internet to work. I found this tutorial but, because I'm such a noob, am unable to follow it. First of all, what's "Synaptic/Adept?" Then, what am I supposed to do with those lines under quote? Any help would be great! The wireless card/connection isn't showing up at all in Networking. I have a Linksys WMP54GX Wireless G PCI Adapter with SRX.

[unutbu]

Hello Scoobylu, welcome to Ubuntu. (Hey, that rhymes!)
You might want to try the steps from one of these guides:

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/interne...eshooting.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=621088 (Google "WMP54GX Ubuntu")

If you have problems, I suggest posting on the second thread mentioned above. That one is specifically about the WMP54gx. It looks like a number of of posters report success with bmullan's directions, so it looks hopeful that things should work out for you too.

PS. According to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_g-l/, you have an Airgo networks chipset. This thread is about cards with the RT2500 chipset. So it's probably a good thing you didn't go very far with weiman01's instructions.

[Cliste]

Somewhat very similar to Scoobylu I'm also a complete noob- enter problem, I've tried to get my wireless card running using the ndiswrapper, but if you look at the attached picture it says that it cannot be installed on my Pc for some reason... Any ideas,

Thanks

[wieman01]

Somewhat very similar to Scoobylu I'm also a complete noob- enter problem, I've tried to get my wireless card running using the ndiswrapper, but if you look at the attached picture it says that it cannot be installed on my Pc for some reason... Any ideas,

Thanks

Open the package manager... called Synaptic. You will find it there as well.

[Cliste]

Open the package manager... called Synaptic. You will find it there as well.

I love the optimism... see attached, when I searched it it doesn't show..

Basically it's not installing on my Pc for whatever reason, any idea why, another way of trying or another wrapper

Thanks wieman...

[unutbu]

I think the package you need is called
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9.

If Synaptic does not work, you could open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

If that does not work, post any error messages from the line above and, in addition, the output of

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

[Cliste]

Here she comes:

for sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 we get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

And for cat /etc/apt/sources.list we get:

ciaran@ciaran-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted #Added by software-properties
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy restricted main universe #Added by software-properties

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted main universe #Added by software-properties

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy universe
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-security restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security multiverse