D-link dwa-140

[benoix]

Hi,
I have a laptop hp pavilion dv6110ca with bcm4311 wireless card. Three weeks ago it stopped working. I guess it’s dead because it doesn’t show up neither in windows nor in linux. It was the second time so I decided to buy d-link dwa-140 usb wireless adapter.
I’ve read the thread Getting Your Wireless to Work and did everything according to that threat. In YaST => Hardware => Hardware Information I see my usb wireless adapter and Kernel Driver is rt2870. When I checked /var/log/boot.msg I didn’t find any line with the word "firmware", but I found these lines:

rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
Error: Driver 'rt2870' is already registered, aborting...
usbcore: error -17 registering interface driver rt2870

Can that be a problem that I can’t get my wireless adapter connected?
I can see a lot of Access Points in my vicinity, but I can’t connect to any of them (some of them are open).
Thanks

[lwfinger]

benoix wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a laptop hp pavilion dv6110ca with bcm4311 wireless card. Three
> weeks ago it stopped working. I guess it’s dead because it doesn’t show
> up neither in windows nor in linux. It was the second time so I decided
> to buy d-link dwa-140 usb wireless adapter.
> I’ve read the thread Getting Your Wireless to Work and did everything
> according to that threat. In YaST => Hardware => Hardware Information I
> see my usb wireless adapter and Kernel Driver is rt2870. When I checked
> /var/log/boot.msg I didn’t find any line with the word "firmware", but I
> found these lines:
>
>> rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown,
>> you have been warned.
>> usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
>> Error: Driver 'rt2870' is already registered, aborting...
>> usbcore: error -17 registering interface driver rt2870
>
> Can that be a problem that I can’t get my wireless adapter connected?
> I can see a lot of Access Points in my vicinity, but I can’t connect to
> any of them (some of them are open).
> Thanks

There were a number of HP laptops with problems in the BIOS that
caused overheating of the motherboard and failure of the PCI-E
interface. I had one of them, which was replaced by HP. I don't know
how long the warranty situation existed, but you should check with HP
support giving model and serial number.

You made an unlucky choice of a USB stick. Any driver that comes from
staging is a vendor written driver. No Linux developer will devote
much time to sorting out that kind of problem.

To show you how bad such drivers are, error -17 means that the driver
is trying to create a file that already exists! That error is
certainly killing your device. If you are lucky, ndiswrapper with the
Windows driver might work.

[benoix]

Thanks. I'll try ndiswrapper.
It is a second time that my wireless card gives me problems. First time I sent my laptop to hp and they changed wireless card to another one. It worked during one year and now I got the same problem, so I decided to buy usb adapter.
About error -17 can it be the reason that I have bcm4311 driver installed? May be some kind of interference? I'm a newbie so sorry for that kind of question. May be I need to reinstall old bcm4311 driver?

[lwfinger]

benoix wrote:
> Thanks. I'll try ndiswrapper.
> It is a second time that my wireless card gives me problems. First time
> I sent my laptop to hp and they changed wireless card to another one. It
> worked during one year and now I got the same problem, so I decided to
> buy usb adapter.
> About error -17 can it be the reason that I have bcm4311 driver
> installed? May be some kind of interference? I'm a newbie so sorry for
> that kind of question. May be I need to reinstall old bcm4311 driver?

It has nothing to do with the BCM4311. It is a crappy, vendor-written
driver.

[benoix]

I found at the Ralink Technology: Home this:
Firmware RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2770)
Should I try to install it or disregard this firmware and try to install ndiswrapper?
Thanks

[iannoypplz]

EEEEH have you tried clicking the boot button? i once had the same problom and i tried it, my computer started and i was able to play ping-pong, it was 1 of the happiest days of my life