Hi! As you'll tell my question, I'm not well versed in Linux. I'm running Ubuntu, and I plugged in a USB WiFi card, and it's not recognized. It was recognized immediately in XP, which I dual boot with. It's actually quite good as it picked up another wifi network in the area, which I don't try to access. I have a disc with linux drivers on it. Do I just put the disc into the drive, and then go to the files on the disc and double click on it to install the drivers? There are different drivers on the disc for different nics, they might all be the same, and I'm not sure which USB nic it is as it has nothing on it except that it's a USB 803.11g. The drivers are ralink. If I install the wrong driver, or if the driver I install doesn't work, and I want to try another one, how do I uninstall the initial driver? Any and all responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,

Could you give me the precise type/model of your card ?

Thx

Thanks for the response. I don't know the exact make/model---it's not written anywhere on it. lsusb returns:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.

iwconfig returns this:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementn
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Thanks.

Wow... That's pretty weird... Excuse me but are you really sure there's no number usable on the card .. ?

Anyway, ok well I'm gonna have a look at what I could find on IEEE 802.11 bgn cards from RALINK (think I'll have some.. ). Keep me up if you find anything please.

Thx again.

Thanks for the response. The only things written on the usb adapter are:

802.11 b/g
54mps wireless usb adapter

Thanks.

Did you have the WiFi unit plugged in when you turned on the computer?

Regardless, a quick check on Google seems to indicate it needs the rt2870 driver

Hmm... looks like it is actually recognized and usable; unless you have two wireless nics, your iwconfig is reporting it...

Try Dån