Prolink WN2000 in 9.10

[psycho5]

Hi boys and girls!

I just installed a fresh copy of 9.10 32bit and I'm trying to get this wireless adapter to work. The website provides a driver for linux for the wireless adapter. I installed it, but I don't know if its not working or is it just network manager that can't see the wireless network.

The driver ( RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2770) )provided by the manufacturer's website is here:

http://www.prolink2u.com/new/support/download.php?q=WN2000&submit=Okay

and its version 2.1.0. I checked for a newer version of that driver and its provided by Ralink (?) at version 2.2.0. Regardless, I can't get the dongle to connect.

lsusb thinks the dongle is D-link, which is weird to me.



$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07b8:3071 D-Link Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
oj@oj-desktop:~$



In network tools I can see eth0 (no problems here), wlan0 which is Active and multicast enabled, then there is unknown interface wmaster0 also Active but multicast disabled.

I click the network connections tab there is Wireless Connections option with disconnected and both of them are grayed out. What do I do from here?

Using the driver cd, I tried using ndiswrapper but in windows I can't find the .inf file, only .sys in device manager > view driver files.


here is some more info about the wireless, it seems to be recognized



sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for oj:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:18:f3:10:92:ba
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:26 ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdcff000-fdcfffff memory:fdd00000-fdd1ffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:12:0e:b7:7c:67
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
oj@oj-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=7 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

[psycho5]

*bump* help plz on this topic.

[nonotdh]

Try to use driver for RT3070USB,
I use it on my ubuntu 10.04.
You can download it from http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
It works.