Fixed my Ralink RT2860 Wireless in 10.10

[TBABill]

I searched the forums for answers and finally came across the fix for my wireless. It works perfectly in 10.04 and cannot connect to a network in 10.10. The card is a Ralink RT2860 and normally works out of the box with any distro, but here's what I found on the forums that fixed mine (so others can search and find an answer easily):

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Add the following lines to the end of blacklist.conf:

blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00usb

[uhappo]

I have

03:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860

wireless card and it worked flawlessly on 10.04.

Your tip worked, thanks alot!

[TBABill]

Very welcome. Glad it has helped save someone else some trouble. Enjoy!

[castor_fou]

indeed it works but here it failed to resume after suspend.
In log file I have something as(wlan0): link timed out.

[not_a_phd]

Tip works fine for me (eeePc 901) on a WPA network, but not a WEP encrypted network. I am presently running a kludged system where I blacklist the rt2860sta driver by default (for my WEP network). When I am at a WPA hotspot, I rmmod the generic rt2800 and rt2x00 drivers, and insert the rt2860sta one, which works well except for suspend.

When I add the SUSPEND_MODULE=rt2860sta to my /etc/pm/config.d/config file, my system hangs upon wake up.

All is not well in wireless Ubuntuland.

[frenkel]

When I blacklist the modules listed in by the TS and reboot, my suspend works just fine (make sure the other modules where not loaded before).

[not_a_phd]

When I blacklist the modules listed in by the TS and reboot, my suspend works just fine (make sure the other modules where not loaded before).

Dude, suspend is the least of my worries. I am quite aware of which modules are loaded, and which are not. The problem that I am having is that no single module configurations works on both types of networks to which I connect - WPA Open and WEP.

I have gone so far as to compile RaLink drivers, but they do not play with network-manager.

So, I continue to operate with a kludged system. I stand by my statement that all is not well in wireless Ubuntu-land.

If anyone out there in ubuntu-land is successfully operating an eeepc 901 with the RaLink 2860 driver on Maverick, I would ***love*** to hear how they are doing it.

[frenkel]

Dude, suspend is the least of my worries. I am quite aware of which modules are loaded, and which are not. The problem that I am having is that no single module configurations works on both types of networks to which I connect - WPA Open and WEP.

I have gone so far as to compile RaLink drivers, but they do not play with network-manager.

So, I continue to operate with a kludged system. I stand by my statement that all is not well in wireless Ubuntu-land.

If anyone out there in ubuntu-land is successfully operating an eeepc 901 with the RaLink 2860 driver on Maverick, I would ***love*** to hear how they are doing it.

Well I'm sorry, but I was under the impression you where complaining mostly about the fact that your machine would hang after resume.
Did everything work fine in 10.04? For me it did, so you might want to try and compile that staging driver if that's possible.

[castor_fou]

I made some progress and now everything work fine: wep or wpa, toggling off/on wifi, suspend/resume.
What I did since previous post was just a BIOS update to the last version available (from ASUS website). I followed some blog post at http://blog.lmartin.fr/dc2/index.php...ia-une-cle-USB, this is in French but can be translated via Google translate.

[not_a_phd]

Well I'm sorry, but I was under the impression you where complaining mostly about the fact that your machine would hang after resume.
Did everything work fine in 10.04? For me it did, so you might want to try and compile that staging driver if that's possible.

No need to be sorry - you were trying to help, and I ***greatly*** appreciate it. I fear that my frustration is shining through right now....

I had been running 9.10 Karmic, and felt it time to upgrade before it expired. Everything "just worked" under Karmic, and I did not do the necessary homework beyond trying out the live USB version (which also worked). While things worked just fine in the "try it out on USB" mode, they did not after reboot into the newly installed system.

If I had done my homework, I would have found that Ubuntu had broken wireless on the eeepc 901 in 10.04, and had not yet fixed it in 10.10.

I have been actively working this problem for the past 3-weeks now, with little progress to show for it. I have compiled and installed vendor staging-drivers on my machine, but was worse off for it. In that case, my wpa_supplicant would disconnect me every 5-seconds on my WEP network. I have traced source code to see where this is happening in the code, but ran into a dead end in the debug process because of the way wpa_supplicant initialization arguments are hard-coded into the network manager.

I have recently begun looking at ways of taking network-manager out of the loop and seeing if I can do better by reverting to manual configuration. I don't think I can do worse....