Cisco Valet Connector AM10 in Ubuntu 11.04

**chili555** · August 18th, 2011

The correct driver is either ndiswrapper and the included Windows XP .inf file or the Linux driver rt3572sta. As the man at the corner store says, you pays yer money and you takes yer chances. If it's working satisfactorily with ndiswrapper now, then that's a prefectly valid method. It's easy enough to temporarily try the Linux driver:

Code:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo rmmod -f ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe rt3572sta
iwconfig

Did a wireless interface, ra0 perhaps, get created? Can you connect? Is it better or worse?

**ljmartz** · August 16th, 2012

I am a new Ubuntu user...so new that I know enough to get lost but not how to find my way home!

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 in dual-boot mode on my laptop that is also loaded w/ Vista (I will not detail the steps it took to complete that process. Lets just say at this point, based on the installation process, I'm not convinced that Ubuntu is any better than Vista). After finally getting Ubuntu loaded, updated, and driver for my wifi card installed (using an Ethernet connection) I have absolutely no wireless connection.

I am using a Cisco Valet router that is hard wired to my desktop and on my laptop (booted in Vista) I connect wirelessly. The Cisco Valet has a USB setup key (not the AM10) that I ran to set up connection on the laptop the first time. As with the AM10, the setup key is only supported by Windows and Mac.

Here is my question: will the wonderful work that you accomplished here work for me or do I need to go down a different road?

**ohmysql** · August 16th, 2012

Originally Posted by ljmartz

I am a new Ubuntu user...so new that I know enough to get lost but not how to find my way home!

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 in dual-boot mode on my laptop that is also loaded w/ Vista (I will not detail the steps it took to complete that process. Lets just say at this point, based on the installation process, I'm not convinced that Ubuntu is any better than Vista). After finally getting Ubuntu loaded, updated, and driver for my wifi card installed (using an Ethernet connection) I have absolutely no wireless connection.

I am using a Cisco Valet router that is hard wired to my desktop and on my laptop (booted in Vista) I connect wirelessly. The Cisco Valet has a USB setup key (not the AM10) that I ran to set up connection on the laptop the first time. As with the AM10, the setup key is only supported by Windows and Mac.

Here is my question: will the wonderful work that you accomplished here work for me or do I need to go down a different road?

Hmm, probably won't help you much! What's the model number of the WiFi card you're using?

You might want to make an account here and ask him to help you. But we'll see:

http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modes...hp?p=6057#6057

**ljmartz** · August 16th, 2012

Hmm, probably won't help you much! What's the model number of the WiFi card you're using?

According to the lspci -v command I am running a Broadcom Corp BCM 4311 802.33b/g, Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 Wlan Mini-card.

According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...kCardsBroadcom
the 4311 is supported but there is no mention of the Dell Wireless 1390 Mini-Card.

I did find a helpful piece of info in the above referenced link that states that on dual-boot machines that the wireless card has to be active in Windows before booting to Ubuntu or the card will not work in Ubuntu. After trying this technique, I at least have the wifi light lit on my laptop, but the network options still do not show any wireless network options.

**chili555** · August 16th, 2012

Originally Posted by ljmartz

According to the lspci -v command I am running a Broadcom Corp BCM 4311 802.33b/g, Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 Wlan Mini-card.

According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...kCardsBroadcom
the 4311 is supported but there is no mention of the Dell Wireless 1390 Mini-Card.

I did find a helpful piece of info in the above referenced link that states that on dual-boot machines that the wireless card has to be active in Windows before booting to Ubuntu or the card will not work in Ubuntu. After trying this technique, I at least have the wifi light lit on my laptop, but the network options still do not show any wireless network options.

If you'd like to get your Broadcom working, please post a new thread including:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
rfkill list all
dmesg | grep b43

I'll be happy to help.

**ljmartz** · August 16th, 2012

If you'd like to get your Broadcom working, please post a new thread including: Code:
lspci -nn | grep 0280 rfkill list all dmesg | grep b43

New thread in this forum?

**chili555** · August 16th, 2012

Originally Posted by ljmartz

New thread in this forum?

Yes, please.

**maihoaomv** · January 1st, 2013

I've read through this post and a couple others and I'm still confused. Everything I've tried here hasn't worked. Did anyone get this thing to work?

The device I have works with win 7, win xp, linux mint 13 and linux mint 14 pretty much plug-n-play so I know the device is working. I'm trying to get it to work on a headless (non gui) nas device (seagate goflex home) that has debian squeeze installed. The problem is it has an ARM processor (marvell) rather than an i386/i686 processor which, I suspect, would not be able to load and run a widows driver.

So I'm lost as to how go about what steps I need to take to get it to work.
modprobe -l indicates the following 5 kernel modules are loaded

root@GoFlexHome:/home/maihoa# modprobe -l |grep rt2800
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko

root@GoFlexHome:/home/maihoa# modprobe -l |grep ndis
kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko
kernel/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.ko

When I try to run usb_modeswitch I get an error

What am I missing? Can anyone help me with this? I realize I'm not running ubuntu. Any ideas or thoughts other than it can't be done would be appreciated.

**ohmysql** · January 2nd, 2013

Originally Posted by maihoaomv

I've read through this post and a couple others and I'm still confused. Everything I've tried here hasn't worked. Did anyone get this thing to work?

The device I have works with win 7, win xp, linux mint 13 and linux mint 14 pretty much plug-n-play so I know the device is working. I'm trying to get it to work on a headless (non gui) nas device (seagate goflex home) that has debian squeeze installed. The problem is it has an ARM processor (marvell) rather than an i386/i686 processor which, I suspect, would not be able to load and run a widows driver.

So I'm lost as to how go about what steps I need to take to get it to work.
modprobe -l indicates the following 5 kernel modules are loaded
When I try to run usb_modeswitch I get an error

What am I missing? Can anyone help me with this? I realize I'm not running ubuntu. Any ideas or thoughts other than it can't be done would be appreciated.

A couple things to check - are you running the latest version of mode_switch? I'd be stunned if the processor is the problem. What does lsusb return? I would really suggest posting here: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modes...hp?p=4884#4884 Mr. Modeswitch has been very helpful to me.