HOWTO: RT2500, etc. wireless cards

[wieman01]

All seems set. You should not have any problems in fact. You have a broadcom chipset, so this tutorial is of no use to you.

However, you can try WICD. Maybe it does a better job:

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

[Erik.]

I downloaded and, it is a simple program.

It says i am connected to my network but when i want to load a webpage it says it can not be found.

Do i need to set something into my computer ?

[wieman01]

I downloaded and, it is a simple program.

It says i am connected to my network but when i want to load a webpage it says it can not be found.

Do i need to set something into my computer ?

Can you access your router using a browser?

[Erik.]

No i can't

When i search for an network i see it, and i also can see the signal -70dbm but when i want to connect it says i am connected and then the signal is -0dbm...

When i install the old driver should it work for me?

[blegs38552]

Problem is still present after installing 8.04. When my wireless antenna is active on boot, I get a Kernel Panic lockup (I have a screen image of this attached).At this point, the laptop panel lights flash on and off and a hard restart u=is required. Also, since the last occurrence, the lights no longer function.

neil@gatewaylaptop:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for neil:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

neil@gatewaylaptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 14
serial: 00:03:25:42:db:f6
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.18 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.5 latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@0000:08:09.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 20
serial: 00:c0:a8:d8:d9:75
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8180 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=r8180 multicast=yes wireless=802.11b/g

A couple of notes - when I executed these commands, I was connected through a wired (Ethernet) connect.

You asked how frequently this occurs. Anytime I try to change my configuration to connect wirelessly to my encrypted network, or any time I try to boot when the wireless antenna is turned on, the Ethernet connection disconnected, and any form of encryption turned on.

[bcrowell]

I had my rt61 working in gutsy with ndiswrapper, but upgrading to hardy broke it. The output from ndiswrapper -l looks normal, and shows that the rt61 driver is installed. Can anyone suggest what to try next?

TIA!

[wieman01]

I had my rt61 working in gutsy with ndiswrapper, but upgrading to hardy broke it. The output from ndiswrapper -l looks normal, and shows that the rt61 driver is installed. Can anyone suggest what to try next?

TIA!

Please post:

sudo iwlist scan

sudo lshw -C network

sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces

sudo ndiswrapper -l

[wieman01]

No i can't

When i search for an network i see it, and i also can see the signal -70dbm but when i want to connect it says i am connected and then the signal is -0dbm...

When i install the old driver should it work for me?

I don't know what's going on... What older driver are you referring to?

[Erik.]

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?

[thywolf]

I am wondering if what I am experiencing now in Server 8.04 using native (i mean non-ndis) rt2500 drivers is caused by a buggy support of rt2500, or by something else.
Namely, I am able to startup my wifi card, "connect" to network with WPAPSK/TKIP, but the symptom is that the ACK led on my PCMCIA card is always on, which is unusual. No communication is possible between my laptop and the router, although my router sees the wifi card as connected, and shows the signal strength constantly.

Suprisingly, the whole thing (same settings of wpa-supplicant) were working fine on FreeBSD 7.0, which I was testing recently - without any problems. Plz plz plz, Ubuntu devs.... make the Ralink wifis to work in Ubuntu... like they do in FreeBSD... Both Ralink and Ubuntu are very popular where I live....

I will switch to ndiswrapper soon, anyway.

Regards,
Chris