Cisco Valet Connector AM10 in Ubuntu 11.04 - DRIVER
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I spent some time reading threads you referenced. I had to get up an take a Tylenol. It looks like it is indeed the 'rt3572sta'. What version are you using? Is it;
It did looks to me that josh helped to get this device working but the 'rt3572sta' driver is the culprit.
If you wish to try the ndiswrapper route again then just do same edits for udev but with ndiswrapper instead of 'rt3572sta'. My bet is on the propriety driver and use the newest version from the link above.
From my point: You are adding another level by using the wrapper and with a known buggy windows driver. I would have jumped to a known good device long ago, my time is worth something. Kudos to you and everyone else who have been working to get this thing working properly. Good luck!
I spent some time reading threads you referenced. I had to get up an take a Tylenol. It looks like it is indeed the 'rt3572sta'. What version are you using? Is it;
It did looks to me that josh helped to get this device working but the 'rt3572sta' driver is the culprit.
If you wish to try the ndiswrapper route again then just do same edits for udev but with ndiswrapper instead of 'rt3572sta'. My bet is on the propriety driver and use the newest version from the link above.
From my point: You are adding another level by using the wrapper and with a known buggy windows driver. I would have jumped to a known good device long ago, my time is worth something. Kudos to you and everyone else who have been working to get this thing working properly. Good luck!
LOL - yeah, I hear that about the Tylenol!
How can you tell that rt3572 is the right driver? I see documents saying pretty much all the above 2870, 3070, and then people saying it's 3572.
I don't want to try ndiswrapper at all! My computer freezes constantly and often immediately the moment I use that crap driver in ndiswrapper.
Let's be clear - I would love to have time to myself! If you see a simple or fast way of solving this, I am all ears!!!
For instance, I would love to use rt2800usb but I'm not sure how to make that driver "see" my device. I guess I could add to the udev rules.
From reading your http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1808690
then reading josh at http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modes...er=asc&start=0 thread/posts it looks like it was good to go. Your problem was the 'rt3572sta' driver. My question in my original post is what 'rt3572sta' driver version are you using? Without going back through all of both threads it should be easy to answer since it's your install.
If the old driver then try the link that I provided and install current version or this is it from Ralink list;
From reading your http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1808690
then reading josh at http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modes...er=asc&start=0 thread/posts it looks like it was good to go. Your problem was the 'rt3572sta' driver. My question in my original post is what 'rt3572sta' driver version are you using? Without going back through all of both threads it should be easy to answer since it's your install.
If the old driver then try the link that I provided and install current version or this is it from Ralink list;
Oh ok, oops, I misunderstood.
Right now, I'm trying the rt2800usb driver. So for the moment rt3572 is uninstalled. I didn't have immediate luck getting it to work. Though, that said maybe 3572 wasn't detecting the wireless adapter. And indeed when I run modinfo rt3572sta it doesn't list 13b1:0031. Hmmmmm.... let me try modifying this.
As for your question, I'm sorry, I'm not totally sure how to tell which version I installed. But modinfo says it's 2.5.0.0 and my download history says I downloaded from ralink.com the 2011_0427 driver. So I think that's the most up to date one.
Let me know if that helps. Any other thoughts or things I could look into? Let me try adding that ra3572 code.
I'm definitely having trouble booting with the USB in. Grub beeps and then my computer freezes - so I do think there's a USB grub problem. I have my BIOS set not to load from USB.
And other USB devices boot normally.
Any thoughts on how to get GRUB to not freeze when the device is plugged in by the way? I've tried booting GRUB with other USB devices - even storage devices - with no problems.
I think GRUB can safely just totally ignore USB things - any idea how to do that?
I do not use 'grub' but think it could possibly be device mapping issue with your bootloader.
How do you have USB configured in the BIOS?
'Legacy USB' or 'AHCI'? Sometimes if settings in BIOS are set to 'Legacy USB' some devices will hang the system when polled.
One other thing comes to mind, do you have 'ahci' as a module or built in? Sometimes if ahci is not built in then weird things can happen. You could insure by using initrd to insure 'ahci' is loaded before. But usually this effects booting drives.
That definitely seems to have helped. I hope that won't disable something important. I have a feeling there's some way to ask grub to disable that kind of reaction to USB devices.
As for ahci, I'm not sure. Can you tell me how I could tell? I just installed 11.04 fresh.
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