Wireless connectivity

[Total Noob]

Obviously, I'm new at this.

Attempts to get my USB wireless 802.11g adaptor hooked up to Ubuntu 7.04 failed. Ubuntu did not even recognize it was there (as opposed to Arklinux which saw it, but would not drive it and gave a "disabled" status for it) and did not give me any chance to install it.

So I'm stuck. I know the device works just fine. It worked fine on the same computer when I had Windows 98 on there last week.

Any ideas for how I get this to work, recalling that I don't know any of the commands or how to tinker with settings or anything else for that matter?

Thanks.

[jmtjet]

I'm giving you a link to the Ubuntu beginners forum. They're some Ubuntu gurus there that should be able to help you get your wireless connection going. It's a known issue with Ubuntu.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=73

[kage]

What kind of wireless card is it? (Manufacturer, Model number)

[Total Noob]

Originally Posted by kage

What kind of wireless card is it? (Manufacturer, Model number)

It's not a card, it's a USB adaptor, basically an antenna the shape and size of a Bic lighter. I have it out, there are several numbers on it without description as to whether they are S/N's or Model Nos., and no brand name, though I think it is Riland or Riwand or something like that. I plugged it in here at work (no connection where the target computer is) and got a blank on the brand name.

Thanks anyway.

[Total Noob]

Originally Posted by jmtjet

I'm giving you a link to the Ubuntu beginners forum. They're some Ubuntu gurus there that should be able to help you get your wireless connection going. It's a known issue with Ubuntu.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=73

Thanks for the link, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of the advice I found there (on the noobie page).

1. Unpack the driver sources and go to the Module directory:
$ tar -xvzf rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
$ cd ./rt73-cvs-YYYYMMDDHH/Module

2. Compile the driver sources:
$ make

3. Install the driver (as root):
# make install

Any thoughts on what the advice might be?

[kage]

Originally Posted by Total Noob

It's not a card, it's a USB adaptor, basically an antenna the shape and size of a Bic lighter. I have it out, there are several numbers on it without description as to whether they are S/N's or Model Nos., and no brand name, though I think it is Riland or Riwand or something like that. I plugged it in here at work (no connection where the target computer is) and got a blank on the brand name.

Thanks anyway.

A USB adapter is a type of wireless card. How can you not know what kind of wireless card you bought?

In linux, open a terminal window, and plug in your "USB adapter", wireless card. Become root (su) and run the command "lspci -vv". Post the output here. *note: If you're using ubuntu, do not run "su", run "sudo lspci -vv".

[Total Noob]

in Arklinux, it was "command not found."

In Ubunto, it was about 80 lines of gibberish, with no mention of the wifi.

[Total Noob]

but hot plugging gave the name ralink

[kage]

In Arklinux, run "su" to become root. Then run "lspci -vv". In Ubuntu, run "sudo lspci -vv". Please post the 80+ lines of gibberish here (preferrably from Ubuntu, but either system will work). Also, please ensure the wireless card is plugged into the computer before you run any commands.

[Total Noob]

I hope no private info that should not be made public is not going out just now.

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+

Latency: 8

Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]

Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4

Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>

Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 0

Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0

Memory behind bridge: fd000000-febfffff

Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fa000000-fcefffff

Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-

BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-

Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



00:02.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 12)

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 0



00:02.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])

Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 32

Region 0: [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]

Region 1: [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]

Region 2: [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8]

Region 3: [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1]

Region 4: I/O ports at fff0 [size=16]



00:02.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 08) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])

Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller

Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 22

Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 10

Region 4: I/O ports at fce0 [size=32]



00:02.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 20)

Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-



00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)

Subsystem: ADMtek Unknown device 0570

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 208 (63750ns min, 63750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5

Region 0: I/O ports at 7400 [size=256]

Region 1: Memory at fcfefc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

Expansion ROM at ff000000 [disabled] [size=128K]

Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 1

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



00:0f.0 Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08)

Subsystem: GVC Corporation IBM

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 32

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9

Region 0: Memory at fcff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]

Region 1: I/O ports at 70f8 [size=8]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 10)

Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 017c

Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 16 (500ns min, 6000ns max)

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5

Region 0: I/O ports at 7800 [size=256]

Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-



01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) (prog-if 00 [VGA])

Subsystem: Number 9 Computer Company Unknown device 0002

Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 40 (1250ns min, 250ns max)

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11

Region 0: Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]

Region 1: Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]

[virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=64K]

Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4

Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>



no@no-desktop:~$

[kage]

Did you have the wireless card (USB adapter) plugged in when you ran lspci? I see your network adapater (10/100), your modem, your sound card, your video card, and lots of other motherboard related items, but what I do not see is your wireless card.

Originally Posted by Total Noob

I hope no private info that should not be made public is not going out just now.

Yeah, you know how easily your financial information is leaked when you post an output of your system specifications.

[Total Noob]

Originally Posted by kage

Did you have the wireless card (USB adapter) plugged in when you ran lspci? I see your network adapater (10/100), your modem, your sound card, your video card, and lots of other motherboard related items, but what I do not see is your wireless card.

It was plugged in during Ubuntu 7.04 session, but the light on the unit did not come on. When I had Arklinux going, it did come on, but the Wifi Manager indicated it was disabled. When I did a "lsusb" in Arklinux (something I saw in some documentation earlier today), it didn't recognize anything that was functioning.

I was on the Ubuntu forum site during the day, and found out that the Ralink card (no brand name on the unit itself or on the installation CD that came with it, the packaging long gone) could be Asustek, but I'm not really sure what that means. There was a lot of material on how to install Ralink model 25xx devices, but the only number I had on the unit with that number of digits was in the 3000's, and even the Ralink site had no mention of it.

There were also extensive instructions on installing Wireless stuff on the Ubuntu site, which started with configure this or compile that and ndiswrapper some other thing, with no explanation of what that means or how you exactly accomplish that. It was all many levels above me.

There was also some instruction about "disabled" cards, but the advice was basically try every combination of function keys you can think of, and let us know when it is enabled.

So I am still without a connection there, and no real good handle on how to get going on line.

Yeah, you know how easily your financial information is leaked when you post an output of your system specifications.

I didn't know if there aren't any passwords, hints to passwords, internet addresses out there that someone could exploit to make me a zombie or get access to my files at a later time (although that is obviously not a real problem for the moment).