need to clear all references to wireless connections
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Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
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need to clear all references to wireless connections
I've been trying to get wireless 802.11g adaptors working for the past couple weeks. I am on my 2nd wireless device and have tried 3 different wireless modules which haven't worked fully or at all (tried ndiswrapper, serialmonkey, and now linuxant's driverloader). I have a wireless connection now (sit0) which doesn't do anything and may be getting in the way of driverloader to be able to fully install.
This is on an old Intel Pentium tower running Slack 10.2 on kernel 2.6.13.
That sit0 interface has nothing to do with your wireless problems.
Sit stands for "simple internet transition" - this interface can be used for encapsulating ipv6 network packets in ipv4 datagrams.
Now, why don't you tell us what wireless card you currently have, and what you have tried sofar?
Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
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ok-I tried a US Robotics wireless 802.11 g adaptor and now I have a Belkin F5D7050. I tried ndiswrapper with the US Robotics-that worked till I tried to use WEP with it. Since I couldn't encrypt my network and have the adaptor decrypt, I returned it and bought the Belkin. I did a make uninstall on ndiswrapper. Then I tried to install serialmonkey's rt2570. It compiled ok but came with no documentation of how to set it up. modprobe and dmesg showed no errors and lsmod showed it was loading up the rt module. iwconfig showed only that sit0 connection. iwlist sit0 scan did nothing and I could not get online with dhcpcd.
I then called Belkin tech support and they actually knew what Linux was and directed me to www.linuxant.com. That site had a nice driver installation with no errors but could not find my Belkin USB. Serialmonkey did not provide a nice make uninstall of their drivers....I deleted all files and directories having to do with ndiswrapper and rtXXXX but I think there is a file preventing the linuxant driverloader from installing properly.
So, how could I reset my tower to the pristine state of no wireless devices and start over?
I got the same card now, the F5D2500 series. It should show up as this in lspci:[code]02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)[\code]
Look at alien's rc scripts here and change the reference in rc.inet1.conf like this:
Code:
## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your configuration settings.
# (You probably will not need all of these for your own wireless network):
IFNAME[4]="ra0"
Plus change anything else needed in that section (Uncomment the lines needed)
Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
Posts: 1,207
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Originally Posted by cwwilson721
I got the same card now, the F5D2500 series. It should show up as this in lspci:[code]02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)[\code]
Look at alien's rc scripts here and change the reference in rc.inet1.conf like this:
Code:
## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your configuration settings.
# (You probably will not need all of these for your own wireless network):
IFNAME[4]="ra0"
Plus change anything else needed in that section (Uncomment the lines needed)
Then 'modprobe rt2500', try a reboot.
Tell us the results.
My wireless adaptor is a USB that's version 3000. It shows up with lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:705a Belkin Components
How would I use the rc script-move rc.inet1.conf to /etc/rc.d? Where do I get the module for ra0-is it in the 2.6.13 kernel?
Then I tried to install serialmonkey's rt2570. It compiled ok but came with no documentation of how to set it up.
You need the rt27x0 driver from serialmonkey. The files from alien you just copy the four rc.XXX files to /etc/rc.d, mkdir /etc/rc.d/ifcfg , copy the two ifxxx.sh files to that directory, installpkg ifplugd,ifmetric,and the lib file.
if you can wait a few, I can put all the files you need in one file, and give you a link on where to get them....
Get all the files (except the driver from serialmonkey) here. It extracts to a directory called 'keeper'.
Copy all the rc.* scripts to /etc/rc.d. Make sure the rc.inet1 and rc.wireless are executable.
Copy all the *.sh scpripts to /etc/rc.d/ifcfg . Make sure both are executable.
run installpkg on the three *.tgz files
Edit rc.inet1.conf , adding in whatever you need for wlan area (here is my rc.inet1.conf file, edited)
Compile the rt27x0 driver (make, make install)
modprobe rt27??? (whatever the name of the driver), and then I'd reboot.
After the reboot, post the results of iwconfig, iwlist scan, ifconfig
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