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According to this your device is supported but may require firmware to work. Please see your dmesg for relevant information. Hint: running grep on dmesg will make it much easier.

Emerson:

Thanx much. Ahhh... see someone else told me the drivers are installed. However when I went to the CD that came with the antenna, I got the understanding that they hadn't installed???? OK, so now, I run this dmesg and it will inform me as to what I need to do? Please explain "running grep on dmesg?

THANK YOU:
RICK

Quote:

Originally Posted by 69Rixter (Post 5124751)

to : hilyard & rokytnji

I went to UbuntuSoftwareCenter and searched for inxi. Nothing came up. OK, enlighten me to what this is;where I get it; and how to download/install and use it. Or rather, just point me in the direction of it users manual and download site. I've never heard of it.

Thanx Fellas:
RICK

Dude. Sorry I did not respond sooner. I had to put my wife on a plane and I am flying solo this week so fun and games.

Just for reference

Code:

@biker:~

$ inxi -Fxz

System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.13.3-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) 

          Desktop: IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-13.2_x64-full Luddite 4 November 2013

Machine:  System: Acer product: Aspire T180 version: R01-B3

          Mobo: Acer model: EM61SM/EM61PM Bios: Phoenix version: R01-B3 date: 02/07/2007

CPU:      Single core AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 2008.86 clocked at 1000.00 MHz 

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] bus-ID: 00:0d.0 

          X.Org: 1.12.4 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz 

          GLX Renderer: GeForce 6100 nForce 405/integrated/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.119 Direct Rendering: Yes

Audio:    Card: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:05.0 

          Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.3-antix.1-amd64-smp

Network:  Card: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 ver: 1.30 port: ac00 bus-ID: 03:00.0

          IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>

Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2160.4GB (6.6% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST3160812AS size: 160.0GB 

          2: id: /dev/sdb model: ST2000DM001 size: 2000.4GB 

Partition: ID: / size: 48G used: 16G (33%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 6.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 

Sensors:  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0: 

          Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 

Info:      Processes: 108 Uptime: 1:23 Memory: 529.4/2761.8MB Runlevel: 5 

          Gcc sys: 4.8.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.2.45) inxi: 1.9.18

That is what inxi is. It is just a script that spits out info on your machine in terminal like cpuz would in Windows.
First hit in google search for "install inxi ubuntu"

http://askubuntu.com/questions/28463...tion-on-ubuntu

Ok. Covered that. So that you can help your self and learn something in the process. Also because my priorities while the wife is gone are drinking and motorcycle riding. Plus I am gonna turn you on to a Ubuntu Google Search Engine.

Linky

This should be a easy fix in Ubuntu. Now if you were runny Puppy Linux or TinyCore. It might be a different story.

Happy Trails, Rok.

dmesg command prints the kernel message buffer in a terminal. You can scroll up and down with Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown. What you see is very useful information about your system initialization as kernel is loading. Any time you have hardware issues you should inspect dmesg output. There is grep utility which can be used to search and filter output of any command, it can search also in its own. For instance, if there is a kernel driver looking for firmware it will be in dmesg output. For instance, to see all lines containing 'firmware' you can pipe dmesg output to grep:

Code:

dmesg | grep -i firmware

To colorpurple21859:

Well, neither of those sites were helpful.If you read post concerning my particular device/WiFi card(Rt3070) you'll note it says "should work out-of-box-...just plug it in"--well, obviously, that's NOT the case. Anyway, Thanx for replying.

LATER:
RICK

To rokytjni:

THANX...learning a little more each day/post!!

Take Care:
Rick

Emerson:

Thanx. See, this is what I'm asking....and learning. THANK YOU to Emerson and each and all who've replied/helped out!!

LATER:
RICK

RT3070...

This seems to be the right download from Ralink/Mediatek

http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads...0rt3572rt3070/

THORKELLJARI:

THANK YOU. Well, I've been told that I do have the drivers downloaded. there have been suggestions I need to apply certain other modules, or perhaps add-ons that will activate/enhance the performance. I just don't know!!?? Perhaps I should add that, lately, I've been having some 'quirks" with Ubuntu itself. So, the problems may lie within it's system and, therefore, not the fault of the external antenna. See, I just don't know. I'll check out the "site" you've suggested and get back to you.

THANK YOU:
Rick

Go to here
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/a...mware/download
and click on this to download the firmware for your wireless card.
security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Transfer the .deb file to your ubuntu system and install.

hey colorpurple21859:

Ok, went to page, read it, and need some clarification. What I read/gather from site is,...???? I'm NOT sure what I'm downloading/installing. Is it a pkg mgr? Is it needed software for Ralink??? Does Ralink need additional software to work to it's specs? I won't download/install just anything... I need to know. Please don't take offense. I do want this ordeal with external antenna fixed and working at it's optimum. Thank You for your reply
Take Care:
Rick

Quote:

I won't download/install just anything...

I dare ya. :)

Going by what you have not posted.

Code:

lsusb -t

to see if the raylink driver is installed or not in your kernel.

Code:

uname -a

The firmware is not supplied in Linux distros because of legal issues. If you have the driver. But not the firmware. The usb wifi won't work.

It wont hurt to download and install the file. I bet if you left click on it. Gdebi will open since you say you are running Ubuntu 12.04.
You will need a reboot to make sure the install takes.
Then try network manager in Ubuntu to connect your wireless.

If yo8u are afeared. Keep the download in a folder. Open synaptic. Look for it in the search box (name is in the folder you have the deb in). Pick uninstall if it does not work.

Use the pdf for Ubuntu 12.04 to teach you a few things. Happy Trails, Rok

Edit: I have been marking other members posts as helpful as they have been very useful in this thread. md5sum check the all deb in terminal before installing with gdebi.

Code:

@biker:~

$ cd Music

@biker:~/Music

$ ls

Buckethead - Soothsayer.mp3  Music      The_Rolling_Stones-Doom_And_Gloom.mp3

lonely - world.mp3          Streaming  zip_files

@biker:~/Music

$ md5sum Buckethead\ -\ Soothsayer.mp3 

5003cadbe06045ec52a06dea5a27fb3e  Buckethead - Soothsayer.mp3

The firmware is needed for your wireless driver to work. You will need to restart your computer after installing the firmware for the usb to work. Firmware is software that is loaded to the device by the driver for the device to work. Most distros have a package that includes firmware for several different devices instead of having a firmware package for each individual device. The package I pointed you too was based on the information you had provided about the distro your are using and the wireless usb your trying to get working.

Unloading and reloading the module will do, faster than rebooting.