No wireless: Edimax rt73usb

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Sorry Dotan, can't help you anymore. Found my soln by
googling and made an educated guess which of many I
found that applied to me. The procedure I listed below
is what worked for me after I found which rt* module
of several listed was correct for my chipset. If you
know your chipset, search on that.

--- Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/02/2008, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >  --- Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > In a new Ubuntu install, we cannot get wireless
> >  > working. Ifconfig
> >  > shows eth0 (wired) and lo, but no eth1. The
> wireless
> >  > hardware is an
> >  > Edimax rt73usb USB dongle. I see that it is
> detected
> >  > in kern.log. This
> >  > is the last page of the log:
> >  >
> >
> > >snio
> >
> > > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.780000]
> >  > ieee80211_init:
> >  > failed to initialize WME (err=-17)
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.808000]
> >  > iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol
> >  > iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_unregister
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.808000]
> >  > iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol
> >  > iwlwifi_sta_info_put
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.808000]
> >  > iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol
> >  > iwlwifi_sta_info_get
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.808000]
> >  > iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol
> >  > iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_register
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.808000]
> >  > wmaster0:
> >  > Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.892000]
> >  > usbcore:
> >  > registered new interface driver rt2500usb
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 17.908000]
> >  > usbcore:
> >  > registered new interface driver rt73usb
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:57 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 18.112000]
> >
> > snip
> >
> > > r8169: eth0: link up
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:58 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 21.028000]
> >  > Failure
> >  > registering capabilities with primary security
> >  > module.
> >  > Feb 24 23:53:58 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 21.244000]
> >  > phy0 ->
> >  > rt2500usb_enable_radio: Error - Register
> >  > initialization failed.
> >
> > > snip
> >
> > > lo: Disabled
> >  > Privacy Extensions
> >  > Feb 24 23:54:18 garry-desktop kernel: [  
> 41.048000]
> >  > eth0: no IPv6
> >  > routers present
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> > You have similiar error messages that I had on a
> >  LinlSYS WPM54G pci wifi card. My soln was a
> >  complicated fix envolving determining the correct
> rt
> >  module vs. pci version, adding it to the
> /etc/modules,
> >  blacklisting mac80211, shutting down, removing
> the
> >  card, rebooting and shutting down again, then
> >  reinserting the card and reabooting before it
> would
> >  work and maybe having to issue, sudo ifdown wlan0
> >  followed by sudo ifup wlan0 before it would
> connect.
> >  Hope you don't have that trouble but you may want
> to
> >  google on your card and it there are issues in
> its
> >  setup you should find a lot to ponder over.
> >  You likely, almost assuredly, know more about
> >  networking than I, but I never was able to setup
> a
> >  wifi connection with ethx, or with lo, only with
> >  wlan0.
> >  Your dmesg output may show more as to the cause
> of the
> >  failure, mine did. I don't see anything about
> setting
> >  up the usb "LINK" which usually tells you
> something
> >  about the failure. Maybe that only shows up in
> dmesg.
> >  If you have a special setup procedure for the
> device
> >  or special module you should find all you need
> googing
> >  over it. May want to ID the chipset too.  Good
> luck or
> >  maybe someone who has used it has the answers.
> Did you
> >  google to see if its supported?
> 
> I did google the dongle and I see that there are
> many problems, and
> just as many solutions. Everyone seems to need to
> jump through a
> different hoop to make it work. So I thought that
> I'd ask here instead
> of experimenting with 50 different procedures that
> _may_ work (or
> not). This isn't my computer (I install Ubuntu on
> friends' computers
> about once a week) so I did not want to do too much
> experimentation.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net