After a 2 year gap, I thought I'd have another go at getting Ubuntu onto my laptop. All installed fine (9.10), apart from the wireless again. AFAIK the laptop has a Ralink USB adapter - it also has a proper kill switch (on) and NO soft switch.
The wireless is a non starter, because in Network Manager the "device is not ready".
I noticed that Ubuntu is wanting to ignore the adapter, so I unblocked it:Code:andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0db0:6865 Micro Star International RT2570 andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off 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 andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by rt2500usb 21152 0 rt2x00usb 11548 1 rt2500usb rt2x00lib 29756 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb led_class 4096 1 rt2x00lib input_polldev 3716 1 rt2x00lib mac80211 181140 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network [sudo] password for andrew: *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: a bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0 logical name: eth0 version: 10 serial: 00:90:f5:3c:bb:27 size: 10MB/s capacity: 1GB/s width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list 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=half latency=64 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s resources: irq:19 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:ec005000-ec0050ff *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface physical id: 2 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:0c:76:46:50:ad capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ iwlist scan wlan0 Failed to read scan data : Network is down
But this made no difference, apart from the TX power coming on (still "device not ready" in NM):Code:andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ rfkill unblock all andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
Can anyone help me find a new direction to look in?Code:andrew@andrew-laptop:~$ iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 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
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