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Installing ralink rt2870 rt3070 on portable
I have been installing via wiki instructions and I am stuck installing a USB wireless. Where should I be going with this?
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Hello DMKHAMMER,
the wireless adapter is running (wlan0). But you're not yet associated to your wireless network. I don't know how Debian manages wireless devices, but you'll have to find the program, probably Networkmanager where you can configure for your wireless authentication (ssid, key etc.) Markus |
My Vaio has a atheros card built in. It stopped working under windows months ago and ran a USB adapter fine. When Lenny installed it saw the card even with the switch off and the card unable to function. I think I need to disassociate the Atheros from the WLAN and re-install the USB to get it to work but I am not sure how.
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Maybe for the builtin card there is a switch anywhere at the laptop which enables/disables the card, did you check that?
Could you please post the output of Code:
lspci | grep -i atherosCode:
lsmod | grep ath |
atheros stuff
Thank you for helping me.... my linux book still hasnt shown up in the mail; ordered 12/26/10
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It seems that the ath5k module isn't the adequate one for your builtin card, here the helptext from the kernel-sources
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Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support (ATH5K)Markus |
Atheros died
The hardware on the Atheros died.... in windows where it always worked, the switch LED wont come on and neither did
the network. I have used a USB adapter instead the last 6 months because it is cheaper than having the thing worked on. So I set up Linux on the machine, it sees the card I think, but I really need to get Linu to run on the USB network adapter. I think Atheros is linked to WLAn setting and is messing up my attempts to get the USB to work? Upon set up, Linux told me I had a Lan, wlan, and a firewire. Wlan was supposed to be Atheros according o the machine and the ethernet was what I used for the network install. |
^ plug in the usb adapter and run lsusb and show us the results.
edit: just for the shiggles, what happens when you run: Code:
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan |
referring to the first post, I'd assume that the wlan is up and needs to be configured with the authentication-data for the wireless network.
Markus |
req info
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Try using the rt2800usb driver.
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DMKHAMMER,
what was different between your posts #1 and #10? Could you please, in addition to the output of the commands, explain what you're doing? In your first post in this thread it seemed to be only an issue with the authentication at the accesspoint, in your post #10 you don't have wlan0 up. If you don't understand our questions, please ask or read the documentation for your distribution. You'll need to know how you can configure your wireless adapter for the authentication-data of your wireless network. Markus |
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please show us the results of: Code:
ifconfig |
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Atheros is reporting as wlan0
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the hardware switch is blown... I want the ralink as wlan0 and I believe Atheros occupation of WLAN is blocking me... |
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