wifi USB dongle "wlan0 no scan results"
first of all, hello everyone! i'm a belgian student and i'm new to linux and new to this forum (but i am an experienced Windows tweaker)
I started with Debian Squeeze a few days ago and i already love it (minimal installation with XFCE) The problem is that i want my wireless lan to work in debian, but it doesn't :( My USB Wifi dongle: D-Link DWL-G122 (USB: 07D1:3C0F) Debian wiki told me i needed the RT2870 driver so i went to this page and followed the steps: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta It now looks as if the adapter works as its light blinks and it is listed - lsusb lists my wifi dongle correct - iwconfig show it to (and it shows "managed access point: not associated" - iwlist scanning returns no results as i said earlier... anybody who can help me out? thanks in advance |
First step: make an extensive posting here of diverse outputs.
Which outputs? look at "troubleshooting wireless networking" in the internet and you will find diverse pages with recommendations http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...ess_Networking or http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-tro...in-ubuntu.html or.. My first Idea would be: have you loaded all modules required? In TinyCoreLinux you would need wireless_tools.tcz, wireless-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz, firmware.tcz, libiw.tcz, wpa_supplicant.tcz, openssl-1.0.0.tcz For the reason I never installed wifi on debian, I dont know what is needed. Have a look at the debian wiki. Here http://wiki.debian.org/de/WiFi. Personally, I would load WICD: I had sucess with it on ubuntu. |
thanks your help
unfortunately i have don't have a menu bar in the terminal so i can't copy anything from terminal in here (problem posted here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nu-4175434340/) anyway, i installed debian squeeze as minimal as possible and then added the following packages: xorg xfce4 synaptic gdebi wicd slim iceweasel geany wireless-tools firmware-ralink as you can see wicd is installed and wireless-tools and firmware-ralink to as soon as i've got a terminal menu (i never had one, still don't know why) i'll post the output of several commands |
Post an output? use the ">" command sign.
In a terminal, make for example "dmesg". You can create the output in a file with "dmesg > dmesgfile.txt". Then with "leafpad dmesgfile.txt" you can edit that file with leafpad. This file can be putted onto an usb stick or send via a mail application (howto? this is another story..). The file from the usb stick can be loaded on another PC. |
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ifconfig
Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:04:a6:da:5f:58 Code:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Code:
Bus 004 Device 009: ID d904:0003 Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system |
with google "firmware requesting rt2870.bin" of your dmesg you find few indications.
here http://wiki.debian.org/rt2870sta say you should have at least the firmware-ralink 0.17 and... Troubleshooting You may be required to blacklist the in-tree rt2800usb driver to allow your device to be claimed by rt2870sta. ... Here http://forums.opensuse.org/english/g...ng-11-2-a.html here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...see-it-809590/ 1. as root, edit the file "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf" and add the line "blacklist rt2800usb" to the end of the file. 2. turn your computer off and back on again. (shutdown and reboot, don't just yank the cord out!) So, I think, blacklist in debian ? Had you done it? or not..? |
thanks man! got it working now
i gave google another try with the dmesg output and i found a complete answer here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...f5647&start=30 this is what i did Code:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rt2800usb.conf |
Can you please put here the result of "lsmod | grep rt" here ?
I am having myself an issue with the debian testing version.. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...cd-4175435256/ |
i'm sorry about the late reply, copletely forgot about your question
anyway, i'm using wheezy now and everything works here is the output you requested: Code:
snd_virtuoso 34917 1 |
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