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Old 05-24-2010, 07:31 AM   #1
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Machine is not starting with Zyxel G302 v3 (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx)


Hello,

I am new to Ubuntu and I am currently trying to get my machine Wireless. The ubuntu version I use is 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and the Wireless is a PCI Zyxel G-302 v3.

Everytime I install the hardware the PC will not start. Can anybody help moe on how to install this hardware correctly so it works?

Many Thanks
Alex

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Old 05-25-2010, 09:56 AM   #2
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Hi, does ubuntu at least try to boot with the card installed? (does the computer get to GRUB?), or does the computer do nothing at all?
First would be figuring out if its faulty hardware or bad software. to do this, either try starting a different distro/OS, or find out which driver your card is using and blacklist it :
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blacklist "module_name"
just add this to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf replacing "module_name" by the name of the driver it uses.
 
Old 05-25-2010, 04:15 PM   #3
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serafan,

ok I blacklisted the RTL8185L driver. I then installed the card and out of the 10 times I restarted the machine, 2x it did come up and the wireless was working. But the other times the startup did not work and stopped.

When it stops it it at the point where the "ubuntu" appears on the screen with the 5 dots that turn from white to red. It's like once the system is over that "hill" it works fine and the way I want it to... So maybe it is some sort of ubuntu problem that it does not want to recognise the wireless but sometimes misses it at start up.

Any further suggestions to make this work?

Cheers

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Old 05-26-2010, 05:24 AM   #4
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Hi, this is good new : the hardware doesn't seem dead :-)
On the other hand, if you wireless is working, then you have blacklisted the wrong driver.
I must admit I can't find any driver with that name, the only ralink drivers I found are :"RTL8192E" and "RTL8192U". Our goal here is to disable any driver that might try to enable the hardware, and then try them one by one, to see which one works best. What would be great is if you could start ubuntu in "safe mode" or anything without graphical boot, and see what error it throws out (it almost always does); that would ease debugging this issue a lot.
 
  


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