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usb wlan does not connect

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• Started 12 years ago by michaelbischof
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   michaelbischof
   

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   Ok, I will give it a try. Can you tell me, just by chance, where to find a Windows XP driver for the above given USB-Stick?
   I already installed slitaz-tool-boxes but it does not work (no GUI). It Linux slitaz 3.2-slitaz.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Ralink windows drivers: http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=500
   The new wifibox written for 4.0 has no gui for ndiswrapper.
   ndiswrapper tutorial
   debian: http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper
   Explains extracting and installing windows driver
   ndiswrapper -i <DRIVERNAME>.inf
   Verify drivers listed
   ndiswrapper -l
   Remove any loaded linux modules for adapter
   modprobe -r rt2800usb
   modprobe ndiswrapper

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   michaelbischof
   

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   Hi mojo,
   thanks for your help but I give it up for now.
   Neither this USB-card nor my netgear pcmcia-card worked with ndiswrapper. In case of the netgear card may be I got the wrong *.inf-file. I have a card made in Taiwan, v2 - and there a lot of issues with it.
   Under Debian Lenny on the same machine this netgear card works:
   root@michael-dell-2:/home/michael# lsmod | grep p

   p54common 18459 1 p54pci
   led_class 1757 1 p54common

   lspci -v shows:
   03:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
   Subsystem: Netgear WG511 v2/v3 54 Mbps Wireless PC Card
   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
   Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
   Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
   Kernel driver in use: p54pci

   But neither with Slitaz 4.0 nor Slitaz rolling I could make it work. This particular USB-card does not work yet with Debian.

   Regards, I wait no for the specialists in our Linux group. I am not a hard-coded networker

   Michael

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   michaelbischof
   

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   Ok, finally I got it. The trick: I removed firmware-rt2x00-20120227.tazpkg, reloaded it but not with tazpanel but from
   http://distro.ibiblio.org/slitaz/packages/4.0/
   , checked by repacking it - and then I saw that module rt2870sta was missing!
   The rest then was easy: But I had to replace ,,any" with ,,WEP,, in /etc/network.conf. It is a small home network working with a DSL-router.
   lsmod | grep rt show now:

   root@slitaz:/home/tux/Desktop# lsmod | grep rt
   rt2800usb 7855 0
   rt2800lib 24574 1 rt2800usb
   rt2x00usb 5720 1 rt2800usb
   rt2x00lib 20851 3 rt2800usb,rt2800lib,rt2x00usb
   mac80211 145388 3 rt2800lib,rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
   cfg80211 99896 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
   parport_pc 16061 0
   parport 20983 1 parport_pc

   This I did on a Desktop-PC. Yesterday I used a Dell Latitude 800 Laptop.

   Thanks a lot to @mojo. As always I learned a lot from this guru.

   Regards,

   Michael

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   michaelbischof
   

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   It works with
   root@slitaz:~# uname -r
   3.2-slitaz
   as well. I used again the mentioned tazpkg-firmware file.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   michaelbischof
   

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   One thing I forgot to tell here: I started with a Slitaz 4.0 Live-CD that I had downloaded in August 2012. With the package firmware-rt2x00 it did not work.
   When I use the same Live-CD now I first
   - tazpkg remove firmware-rt2x00.tazpkg
   - open Slitaz panel, recharge the list of packages, let it look for updates and then
   - install the same package.
   - check it with
   tazpkg repack firmware-rt2x00.tazpkg
   - then I put in the wlan-usb-stick
   - configure it correct

   and then it works.

   (Sorry, please remove the next 2 empty messages: Midori was slow when delivering this text...)
   -- Done. Aleksej

   Posted 12 years ago #

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