CenturyLink wireles usb is not detected
 

I have a wireless dongle attached to the usb port that Vista detects and uses but Linux 17.2 does not. Hardware and software are enabled for wireless but nothing is detected. CenturyLink reports the stick as an Actiontec but does not tell me who manufactured the chipset.

Do the Linux experts have any suggestions for the newbie?
Please bear in mind that I do not have internet in Linux on this machine (yet).

Thanks,
Steve

Hi...

Welcome to the forum :)

I wouldn't call myself an "expert" but I will see if I can give you a hand. :D

If you would, please open a terminal and post the entire output of...

No screenshots please. If you need to, just save the contents into a text file and save it to a flash drive. Thanks! :)

Also, are we talking about Linux Mint?

Regards...

Mint 64 bit. I'll copy the terminal input and get back to you with the results.
I'll definitely need to use a stick.

I'm sure that somewhere there's a list of terminal commands and what they do but I haven't been able to locate that yet. It would save me asking a lot of the questions I have.

But that's for another thread....

Thanks for the help,
Steve

Here are the results:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 18e3:9102 Fitipower Integrated Technology Inc Multi Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 15a9:0004 Gemtek WUBR-177G [Ralink RT2571W]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1668:4700 Actiontec Electronics, Inc. [hex]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub


If I read this correctly it indicates a Ralink dongle.

Steve

Hi...

Thank you for posting the results. Yes, it would appear that the Ralink device is your wireless adapter. I tried looking up the Actiontec ID number, but I didn't get any results.

From what I've seen on a couple different sites, you can first try installing a firmware package from the repositories...

This would be best done by connecting to the internet. In your case, can you find an ethernet cable and connect it from your computer to your CenturyLink modem? ;)

Regards...

I'll need to relocate the computer to do that.
That will have to wait until this evening since I have things to do in town.

Thank you for your knowledge and help.

Steve

Hi...

I just noticed that you could try installing the .deb file here. You can save it to your flash drive. :)

I'm not going to guarantee this will work but you can give it a shot...

Regards...

I did try the download.
After that didn't work I did further research and found the usb driver for windows.
I'm still using dual boot on the Vista machine.
The driver for the working connection is for an Atheros usb. Seems that there are several of them and not a reliable driver as yet for Linux.
The simple solution looks to be replacing the usb adapter with one the Linux Mint already supports.

I'm heading to town to do some shopping.

Hi...

I'm not sure about that, nothing in your output indicates anything from Atheros unless it was misreported. :confused:

If you want to keep trying with the one you have, please post the output of the following with the adapter plugged in...

Dmesg can be quite long but it's useful in pinpointing various sorts of problems.

However, if you want to purchase one that works "out of the box" and can't find one where you live, you can send off for this one. I have the same adapter and it's only dropped a connection once in the different distributions of Linux I've tried it on. :)

Regards...

dmesg

[ 0.170397] system 00:05: [mem 0x00000000-0x0009ffff] could not be reserved
[ 0.170400] system 00:05: [mem 0x00100000-0xb7edffff] could not be reserved
[ 0.170403] system 00:05: [mem 0xb7f00000-0xbfefffff] could not be reserved
[ 0.170406] system 00:05: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff] could not be reserved
[ 0.170408] system 00:05: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff] has been reserved
[ 0.170411] system 00:05: [mem 0xfefff000-0xfeffffff] has been reserved
[ 0.170414] system 00:05: [mem 0xfff80000-0xfff80fff] has been reserved
[ 0.170417] system 00:05: [mem 0xfff90000-0xfffbffff] has been reserved
[ 0.170420] system 00:05: [mem 0xfffed000-0xfffeffff] has been reserved
[ 0.170423] system 00:05: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0c01 (active)
[ 0.170447] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 6 devices
[ 0.170449] ACPI: bus type PNP unregistered
[ 0.178154] pci 0000:00:0d.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0xc0000000-0xc001ffff pref]
[ 0.178162] pci 0000:00:01.0: BAR 2: assigned [io 0xc000-0xc0ff]
[ 0.178167] pci 0000:00:04.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 0.178171] pci 0000:00:04.0: bridge window [io 0xb000-0xbfff]
[ 0.178175] pci 0000:00:04.0: bridge window [mem 0xfd700000-0xfd7fffff]
[ 0.178179] pci 0000:00:04.0: bridge window [mem 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff pref]
[ 0.178184] pci 0000:00:09.0: PCI bridge to [bus 02]
[ 0.178186] pci 0000:00:09.0: bridge window [io 0xa000-0xafff]
[ 0.178190] pci 0000:00:09.0: bridge window [mem 0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
[ 0.178193] pci 0000:00:09.0: bridge window [mem 0xfdc00000-0xfdcfffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178197] pci 0000:00:0b.0: PCI bridge to [bus 03]
[ 0.178200] pci 0000:00:0b.0: bridge window [io 0x9000-0x9fff]
[ 0.178203] pci 0000:00:0b.0: bridge window [mem 0xfdb00000-0xfdbfffff]
[ 0.178206] pci 0000:00:0b.0: bridge window [mem 0xfda00000-0xfdafffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178210] pci 0000:00:0c.0: PCI bridge to [bus 04]
[ 0.178213] pci 0000:00:0c.0: bridge window [io 0x8000-0x8fff]
[ 0.178216] pci 0000:00:0c.0: bridge window [mem 0xfd900000-0xfd9fffff]
[ 0.178219] pci 0000:00:0c.0: bridge window [mem 0xfd800000-0xfd8fffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178224] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 4 [io 0x0000-0x03af]
[ 0.178226] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 5 [io 0x03e0-0x0cf7]
[ 0.178229] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 6 [io 0x8000-0xffff]
[ 0.178231] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 7 [io 0x03b0-0x03df]
[ 0.178234] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 8 [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff]
[ 0.178236] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 9 [mem 0xc0000000-0xefffffff]
[ 0.178239] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 10 [mem 0xf4000000-0xfe02ffff]
[ 0.178242] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 11 [io 0x1c00-0x1c80]
[ 0.178244] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 12 [mem 0xfec80000-0xfecbffff]
[ 0.178247] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 [io 0xb000-0xbfff]
[ 0.178250] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 [mem 0xfd700000-0xfd7fffff]
[ 0.178252] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 2 [mem 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff pref]
[ 0.178255] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 4 [io 0x0000-0x03af]
[ 0.178257] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 5 [io 0x03e0-0x0cf7]
[ 0.178260] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 6 [io 0x8000-0xffff]
[ 0.178262] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 7 [io 0x03b0-0x03df]
[ 0.178265] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 8 [mem 0x000a0000-0x000bffff]
[ 0.178267] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 9 [mem 0xc0000000-0xefffffff]
[ 0.178270] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 10 [mem 0xf4000000-0xfe02ffff]
[ 0.178272] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 11 [io 0x1c00-0x1c80]
[ 0.178279] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 12 [mem 0xfec80000-0xfecbffff]
[ 0.178282] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 0 [io 0xa000-0xafff]
[ 0.178284] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 1 [mem 0xfdd00000-0xfddfffff]
[ 0.178287] pci_bus 0000:02: resource 2 [mem 0xfdc00000-0xfdcfffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178290] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 0 [io 0x9000-0x9fff]
[ 0.178292] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 1 [mem 0xfdb00000-0xfdbfffff]
[ 0.178295] pci_bus 0000:03: resource 2 [mem 0xfda00000-0xfdafffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178297] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 0 [io 0x8000-0x8fff]
[ 0.178300] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 1 [mem 0xfd900000-0xfd9fffff]
[ 0.178302] pci_bus 0000:04: resource 2 [mem 0xfd800000-0xfd8fffff 64bit pref]
[ 0.178351] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.178649] TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.178812] TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.179023] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
[ 0.179089] TCP: reno registered
[ 0.179106] UDP hash table entries: 2048 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.179147] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 2048 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.179256] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.179623] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] enabled at IRQ 22
[ 0.248375] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] enabled at IRQ 21
[ 0.248513] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248563] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248624] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248683] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248742] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248805] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248873] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248946] pci 0000:00:00.0: Found enabled HT MSI Mapping
[ 0.248954] pci 0000:00:0d.0: Video device with shadowed ROM
[ 0.248972] PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64
[ 0.249068] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 0.974526] Freeing initrd memory: 28740K (ffff8800347ce000 - ffff8800363df000)
[ 0.974844] PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.
[ 0.977160] PCI-DMA: aperture base @ ac000000 size 65536 KB
[ 0.977162] PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU.
[ 0.977165] PCI-DMA: Reserving 64MB of IOMMU area in the AGP aperture
[ 0.982235] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x01000065
[ 0.982243] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x01000065
[ 0.982258] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x01000065
[ 0.982273] microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x01000065
[ 0.982348] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
[ 0.982353] LVT offset 1 assigned for vector 0x400
[ 0.982362] IBS: LVT offset 1 assigned
[ 0.982383] perf: AMD IBS detected (0x00000007)
[ 0.982414] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
[ 0.982806] futex hash table entries: 1024 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.982832] Initialise system trusted keyring
[ 0.982865] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[ 0.982896] audit: type=2000 audit(1440768116.980:1): initialized
[ 0.983396] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.985659] zpool: loaded
[ 0.985662] zbud: loaded
[ 0.985907] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.985960] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.986695] fuse init (API version 7.23)
[ 0.986821] msgmni has been set to 7647
[ 0.986902] Key type big_key registered
[ 0.987538] Key type asymmetric registered
[ 0.987542] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[ 0.987597] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
[ 0.987714] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.987719] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.987827] io scheduler cfq registered
[ 0.988000] pcieport 0000:00:09.0: irq 40 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.988081] pcieport 0000:00:0b.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.988134] pcieport 0000:00:0c.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 0.988216] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 0.988243] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 0.988315] vesafb: mode is 640x480x32, linelength=2560, pages=0
[ 0.988317] vesafb: scrolling: redraw
[ 0.988319] vesafb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
[ 0.990841] vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90004780000, using 1216k, total 1216k
[ 0.991024] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 0.991045] fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
[ 0.991200] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
[ 0.991206] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 0.991280] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1
[ 0.991283] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[ 0.991347] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[ 0.991819] ACPI: [Package] has zero elements (ffff880139861340)
[ 0.991822] ACPI: Invalid passive threshold
[ 0.992114] thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
[ 0.992116] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (40 C)
[ 0.992158] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
[ 0.992309] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.994731] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 0.996655] brd: module loaded
[ 0.997635] loop: module loaded
[ 0.997998] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.998004] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 0.998005] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
[ 0.998074] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 0.998139] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.998146] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[ 0.998315] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.998324] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.998335] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: debug port 1
[ 0.998371] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: cache line size of 64 is not supported
[ 0.998396] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: irq 21, io mem 0xfe02e000
[ 1.008046] ehci-pci 0000:00:02.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 1.008123] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 1.008126] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.008129] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 1.008131] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.16.0-38-generic ehci_hcd
[ 1.008133] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:02.1
[ 1.008284] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.008293] hub 1-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
[ 1.008574] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 1.008589] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 1.008594] ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver
[ 1.008720] ohci-pci 0000:00:02.0: OHCI PCI host controller
[ 1.008728] ohci-pci 0000:00:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 1.008766] ohci-pci 0000:00:02.0: irq 22, io mem 0xfe02f000
[ 1.066081] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[ 1.066084] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.066086] usb usb2: Product: OHCI PCI host controller
[ 1.066089] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.16.0-38-generic ohci_hcd
[ 1.066091] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:02.0
[ 1.066240] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.066249] hub 2-0:1.0: 10 ports detected
[ 1.066512] ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
[ 1.066525] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[ 1.066622] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.066624] i8042: PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[ 1.066798] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 1.066943] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.067141] rtc_cmos 00:02: RTC can wake from S4
[ 1.067320] rtc_cmos 00:02: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 1.067362] rtc_cmos 00:02: alarms up to one year, y3k, 242 bytes nvram, hpet irqs
[ 1.067463] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 1.067565] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.27.0-ioctl (2013-10-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[ 1.067590] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.067739] TCP: cubic registered
[ 1.067907] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.068247] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.068264] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.068790] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[ 1.070327] Loaded X.509 cert 'Magrathea: Glacier signing key: c284edaccf0b473652c34d23bec356944236e63b'
[ 1.070348] registered taskstats version 1
[ 1.073375] Key type trusted registered
[ 1.078670] Key type encrypted registered
[ 1.078685] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled
[ 1.078690] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[ 1.078724] evm: HMAC attrs: 0x1
[ 1.079068] Magic number: 11:318:383
[ 1.079079] usb usb1: hash matches
[ 1.079195] rtc_cmos 00:02: setting system clock to 2015-08-28 13:21:57 UTC (1440768117)
[ 1.079330] acpi-cpufreq: overriding BIOS provided _PSD data
[ 1.079519] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.079521] EDD information not available.
[ 1.079605] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded.
[ 1.081795] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1352K (ffffffff81d1c000 - ffffffff81e6e000)
[ 1.081801] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
[ 1.084289] Freeing unused kernel memory: 556K (ffff880001775000 - ffff880001800000)
[ 1.086352] Freeing unused kernel memory: 500K (ffff880001b83000 - ffff880001c00000)
[ 1.088646] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
[ 1.106684] systemd-udevd[117]: starting version 204
[ 1.132850] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 1.134113] pata_amd 0000:00:06.0: version 0.4.1
[ 1.135067] scsi0 : pata_amd
[ 1.135275] scsi1 : pata_amd
[ 1.135365] ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf000 irq 14
[ 1.135368] ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf008 irq 15
[ 1.135432] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 1.135739] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 20
[ 1.139795] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] enabled at IRQ 19
[ 1.147929] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.162240] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 1.200072] firewire_ohci 0000:01:09.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x11
[ 1.299137] ata2: port disabled--ignoring
[ 1.320050] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[ 1.452925] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1668, idProduct=4700
[ 1.452932] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=48
[ 1.452936] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 WLAN
[ 1.452938] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: ATHEROS
[ 1.452940] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 12345
[ 1.660830] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:21:97:3b:2c:bf
[ 1.660835] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: highdma pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 1.660883] sata_nv 0000:00:08.0: version 3.5
[ 1.661196] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23
[ 1.661772] scsi2 : sata_nv
[ 1.661948] scsi3 : sata_nv
[ 1.662013] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9f0 ctl 0xbf0 bmdma 0xd800 irq 23
[ 1.662016] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xb70 bmdma 0xd808 irq 23
[ 1.662311] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] enabled at IRQ 23
[ 1.662790] scsi4 : sata_nv
[ 1.662994] scsi5 : sata_nv
[ 1.663062] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xc400 irq 23
[ 1.663066] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60 bmdma 0xc408 irq 23
[ 1.663121] checking generic (e0000000 130000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000)
[ 1.663125] fb: switching to nouveaufb from VESA VGA
[ 1.663157] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[ 1.663593] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AIGP] enabled at IRQ 22
[ 1.663853] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:0d.0] BOOT0 : 0x04c000a2
[ 1.663859] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:0d.0] Chipset: C61 (NV4C)
[ 1.663862] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:00:0d.0] Family : NV40
[ 1.663906] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:0d.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[ 1.700156] firewire_core 0000:01:09.0: created device fw0: GUID 00000ae6ffe10a4e, S400
[ 1.704348] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:0d.0] ... appears to be valid
[ 1.704351] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:0d.0] using image from PRAMIN
[ 1.704549] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:0d.0] BIT signature found
[ 1.704553] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:00:0d.0] version 05.61.32.25.11
[ 1.704774] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:0d.0] RAM type: unknown
[ 1.704779] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:0d.0] RAM size: 128 MiB
[ 1.704782] nouveau [ PFB][0000:00:0d.0] ZCOMP: 0 tags
[ 1.739499] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:00:0d.0] FAN control: none / external
[ 1.739511] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:00:0d.0] internal sensor: no
[ 1.759368] nouveau [ CLK][0000:00:0d.0] 20: core 425 MHz shader 425 MHz
[ 1.759376] nouveau [ CLK][0000:00:0d.0] --:
[ 1.759489] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1958964 kiB
[ 1.759493] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[ 1.759500] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[ 1.759521] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 125 MiB
[ 1.759523] nouveau [ DRM] GART: 512 MiB
[ 1.759528] nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 1.1
[ 1.759531] nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 3.0
[ 1.759534] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000310 00000023
[ 1.759536] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 00110204 98830003
[ 1.759539] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 0000
[ 1.759542] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 1131
[ 1.759544] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 0110
[ 1.759546] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 03: 0111
[ 1.759548] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 04: 0113
[ 1.759934] nouveau W[ DRM] DCB type 4 not known
[ 1.759938] nouveau W[ DRM] Unknown-1 has no encoders, removing
[ 1.760851] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 1.760853] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 1.762715] nouveau [ DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies
[ 1.788176] nouveau [ DRM] allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x9000, bo ffff8800b7846400
[ 1.788287] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[ 1.788334] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 1.788365] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[ 1.788368] nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: registered panic notifier
[ 1.792052] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.2 20120801 for 0000:00:0d.0 on minor 0
[ 1.824078] usb 1-7: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 1.982354] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.117800] usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=15a9, idProduct=0004
[ 2.117806] usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.117809] usb 1-7: Product: 802.11 bg WLAN
[ 2.117812] usb 1-7: Manufacturer: Ralink
[ 2.128062] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 2.136162] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST3500418AS, HP34, max UDMA/100
[ 2.136169] ata3.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
[ 2.152169] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 2.152351] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500418AS HP34 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.152705] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 2.152791] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 2.152816] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 2.152821] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 2.152884] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.199883] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 >
[ 2.200557] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 2.228060] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[ 2.361920] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=18e3, idProduct=9102
[ 2.361924] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.361926] usb 1-9: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 2.361929] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 2.361931] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: 18E3312D81B
[ 2.366434] usb-storage 1-9:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2.366632] scsi6 : usb-storage 1-9:1.0
[ 2.366745] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 2.369067] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 2.620057] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 2.628165] ata4.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z, 4403, max UDMA/33
[ 2.644156] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 2.645165] scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z 4403 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.663200] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 2.663203] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 2.663388] sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 2.663531] sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 2.664060] usb 2-5: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci
[ 2.886052] usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c52b
[ 2.886055] usb 2-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2.886058] usb 2-5: Product: USB Receiver
[ 2.886060] usb 2-5: Manufacturer: Logitech
[ 2.896978] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[ 2.920106] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.920110] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.928260] logitech-djreceiver 0003:046D:C52B.0003: hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.0-5/input2
[ 2.986351] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 2.987389] input: Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:401b as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-5/2-5:1.2/0003:046D:C52B.0003/0003:046D:C52B.0004/input/input3
[ 2.987576] logitech-djdevice 0003:046D:C52B.0004: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Logitech Unifying Device. Wireless PID:401b] on usb-0000:00:02.0-5:1
[ 3.364697] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 3.365187] scsi 6:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 3.365689] scsi 6:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB xD/SM Reader 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 3.366184] scsi 6:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 3.366522] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 3.366786] sd 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 3.367075] sd 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 3.367574] sd 6:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[ 3.379959] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3.381208] sd 6:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3.381823] sd 6:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3.382448] sd 6:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 4.156077] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[ 4.543740] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 4.984588] random: init urandom read with 121 bits of entropy available
[ 5.114481] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
[ 11.039341] Adding 4061180k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4061180k FS
[ 11.291986] systemd-udevd[405]: starting version 204
[ 11.349625] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[ 11.373396] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 11.383012] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 11.397215] i2c i2c-3: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x1c00
[ 11.397270] i2c i2c-4: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0xf400
[ 11.437563] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 11.446888] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 11.460191] MCE: In-kernel MCE decoding enabled.
[ 11.463384] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[ 11.471859] k10temp 0000:00:18.3: unreliable CPU thermal sensor; monitoring disabled
[ 11.474709] AMD64 EDAC driver v3.4.0
[ 11.474753] EDAC amd64: DRAM ECC disabled.
[ 11.474764] EDAC amd64: ECC disabled in the BIOS or no ECC capability, module will not load.
[ 11.474764] Either enable ECC checking or force module loading by setting 'ecc_enable_override'.
[ 11.474764] (Note that use of the override may cause unknown side effects.)
[ 11.551104] kvm: Nested Virtualization enabled
[ 11.551111] kvm: Nested Paging enabled
[ 11.561213] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AAZA] enabled at IRQ 21
[ 11.561232] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:05.0: Disabling MSI
[ 11.568842] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.7.0 loaded
[ 11.671862] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 11.808086] usb 1-7: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 12.015324] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 12.015331] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset
[ 12.015334] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
[ 12.015338] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 12.015342] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 12.015345] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 12.015347] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 12.015349] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
[ 12.196051] sound hdaudioC0D0: ALC1200: SKU not ready 0x411111f0
[ 12.268029] sound hdaudioC0D0: autoconfig: line_outs=4 (0x14/0x15/0x16/0x17/0x0) type:line
[ 12.268036] sound hdaudioC0D0: speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 12.268040] sound hdaudioC0D0: hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[ 12.268043] sound hdaudioC0D0: mono: mono_out=0x0
[ 12.268045] sound hdaudioC0D0: dig-out=0x1e/0x0
[ 12.268047] sound hdaudioC0D0: inputs:
[ 12.268051] sound hdaudioC0D0: Front Mic=0x19
[ 12.268053] sound hdaudioC0D0: Rear Mic=0x18
[ 12.268056] sound hdaudioC0D0: Line=0x1c
[ 12.292680] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_chip: Info - Chipset detected - rt: 2573, rf: 0002, rev: 000a
[ 12.298770] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 12.299733] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
[ 12.335149] init: failsafe main process (696) killed by TERM signal
[ 13.085855] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
[ 13.085892] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 13.085894] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 13.085908] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 13.085911] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 13.085926] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 13.092188] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 13.092208] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 13.092221] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 13.123372] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 13.123378] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 13.123391] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 13.353511] init: cups main process (781) killed by HUP signal
[ 13.353528] init: cups main process ended, respawning
[ 14.104688] input: HDA NVidia Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input4
[ 14.104812] input: HDA NVidia Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input5
[ 14.104952] input: HDA NVidia Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input6
[ 14.106370] input: HDA NVidia Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input7
[ 14.106554] input: HDA NVidia Line Out Surround as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input8
[ 14.106672] input: HDA NVidia Line Out CLFE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 14.108201] input: HDA NVidia Line Out Side as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 14.108297] input: HDA NVidia Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/sound/card0/input11
[ 14.460086] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[ 15.618925] init: samba-ad-dc main process (888) terminated with status 1
[ 16.049212] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt73.bin'
[ 16.224782] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 1.7
[ 16.301008] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 16.307812] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 16.307876] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0 eth0: MSI enabled
[ 16.308026] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0 eth0: no link during initialization
[ 16.308638] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 17.348835] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
[ 17.357138] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process (1286) terminated with status 1
[ 17.357157] init: plymouth-upstart-bridge main process ended, respawning
[ 18.295996] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:0d.0] MMIO write of 0x00340001 FAULT at 0x00b000
[ 18.986195] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1525) terminated with status 1
[ 42.852395] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:0d.0] MMIO write of 0x00310001 FAULT at 0x00b010
[ 42.869456] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:0d.0] MMIO write of 0x00310001 FAULT at 0x00b010
[ 52.865660] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:0d.0] MMIO write of 0x01890001 FAULT at 0x00b020

Hi...

My apologies. Sure enough, these entries here...

correspond with what your lsusb (and your modem) said here...

What I find odd is that, usually, most adapters from Atheros works right out of the box. The Gemtek device must be something else. :confused:

What does iwconfig report?

Let me poke around for a bit and see what I can find out...

Regards...

And here is the short one which indicates no dongle attached.

iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID: off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Power Management:on

lo no wireless extensions.

I have contemplated trying to ndiswrapper the inf file that windows is using.
I went so far as to locate and copy the windows inf to a location on the Linux partition.
The youtube video was rather confusing for me though.

Thank you. interesting. What is the output of these commands?

Sorry for the constant requests, it's the only way to try and narrow this down...

See my post above, too.

Regards...

Also : one of the references in windoze is :
ATHER_DEV_7015.ndi

Could this be the "special" string that Qwest/ CenturyLink is using?