wifi adapter problem

[Meir Kriheli]

On 11/18/2010 11:35 AM, David Ronkin wrote:
> Boris hi,
>
> Can you provide decent place for downloading & installing of rt2800usb
> I have compile errors while "make" of one 1 found?
>
>

I Had the same problems, till I've downloaded and installed the kernel 
and linux-firmware-nonfree packages from Natty's repository:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/kernel/

Cheers
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Meir Kriheli

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> 2010/11/18 Boris shtrasman <borissh1983 at gmail.com
> <mailto:borissh1983 at gmail.com>>
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>     When dealing with newer then 2860 cards afaik there is no stable
>     mainline kernel support (I hope it is the correct term)
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>     2010/11/17 David Ronkin <dronkin at gmail.com <mailto:dronkin at gmail.com>>
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>         Hi
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>         I bought Edimax  EW-7711USN usb adapter (with linux support
>         written on the box).
>
>         Looks like the driver is found by my ubuntu 10.10 Maverick (on
>         titan laptop) but still i cannot go to web (i have open wireless
>         nw around) - getting the error below.
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>     try to :
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>     1) blacklist the rta2870sta and use rt2800usb or rt2x00
>     2) switch to compat-wireless (it solved my problems).
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>         I googled for some time but gave up meanwhile,
>         Please kindly help!
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>     Could you also replay with :
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>     if you have wpa2 enc ap try to kill network manager (if it is on)
>     and start the plain old wpa_supplicant with debug values when
>     connecting and provide us the logs.
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>     wlist wlan1 scan
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>     tail /var/log/syslog after you connected the card to the system and
>     did and iwconfig.
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>         Here some logs:
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>         # lshw | grep wire
>                     *-firewire
>                          product: Firewire (IEEE 1394)
>                          configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32
>                 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>                 configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt73usb
>         driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A link=no
>         multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
>                 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
>                 configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
>         wireless=Ralink STA
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>         #iwconfig wlan1 essid Homek
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>         #iwconfig
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>         wlan1     Ralink STA  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
>                    Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point:
>         Not-Associated
>                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
>                    RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>                    Encryption key:off
>                    Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise
>         level:-115 dBm
>                    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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>
>         # dhclient wlan1
>         Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
>         Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
>         All rights reserved.
>         For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
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>         Listening on LPF/wlan1/00:1f:1f:c7:16:53
>         Sending on   LPF/wlan1/00:1f:1f:c7:16:53
>         Sending on   Socket/fallback
>         [snip]
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>     You should be sure that you wore able to auth againgst the ap prior
>     to calling dhcpclient
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>         DHCPDISCOVER on wlan1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
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>     I talked about a card with the same chip on AP10 with some people
>     and all had the same results it basically overheats , crashes get
>     stuck and don't work.
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