need a little help getting my linksys wusb100 working under 12.1 with LXDE

brihno · March 3, 2012, 3:41am

Hi all,
just to start off right, as in the title, I just installed OpenSUSE 12.1 with LXDE.

I had my wireless card working great under 11.4 with KDE.

here is the output of lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1737:0078 Linksys WUSB100 v2 RangePlus Wireless Network Adapter [Ralink RT3070]

so the device is showing up fine (and it works under windows as well).

so I read HCL:network link in another thread and it says the following:
“Configure module rt2870sta to load at boot.”

so how should I do this, also: is there a wireless management GUI in LXDE or do I need to do everything in the console?

I had tried some of the stuff in the getting your wireless to work with no success, I have a feeling that the driver is not loading, I already did zypper in kernel-firmware just to make sure the firmware was good to go and it says nothing to do.

any help appreciated,
Brian

brihno · March 3, 2012, 4:29am

here is iwconfig output:
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

brihno · March 3, 2012, 4:41am

results of dmesg|less:

[80600.115621] usb 1-1: Product: Linksys RangePlus Wireless Network USB Adapter
[80600.115626] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys LLC

brihno · March 3, 2012, 4:44am

output of iwlist scan is:
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

lwfinger · March 3, 2012, 5:27am

On 03/02/2012 09:46 PM, brihno wrote:
>
> output of iwlist scan is:
> lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
>
> eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.

You probably need to install the kernel-firmware package. Check the dmesg output
for notice that the firmware loading failed.

The driver changed from rt2870sta to rt2800usb, but it will work.

brihno · March 3, 2012, 6:21am

OK i did enter the command zypper in kernel-firmware

the results were “nothing to do”

is there something I am missing?

also: what would the dmesg output for failed firmware look like, I did not notice anything about it, but there are a lot of lines

brihno · March 3, 2012, 6:31am

This is the only thing I can find in dmesg that is related (at least to my admittedly inexperienced eye) :

[80599.956048] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[80600.115609] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1737, idProduct=0078
[80600.115616] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[80600.115621] usb 1-1: Product: Linksys RangePlus Wireless Network USB Adapter
[80600.115626] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Cisco-Linksys LLC

brihno · March 3, 2012, 8:17am

OK after messing around a bit more got it working again by your advice from the last time around. the command I used specifically for anyone that cares:
su -
/sbin/modprobe -v rt2800usb
echo “1737 0078” > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2800usb/new_id
exit

hcvv · March 3, 2012, 9:37am

Please, please use CODE tags around your computer text postings: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/advanced-how-faq-read-only/451526-posting-code-tags-guide.html

lwfinger · March 3, 2012, 5:24pm

On 03/03/2012 01:26 AM, brihno wrote:
>
> OK after messing around a bit more got it working again by your advice
> from the last time around. the command I used specifically for anyone
> that cares:
> su -
> /sbin/modprobe -v rt2800usb
> echo “1737 0078”> /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2800usb/new_id
> exit

Your device is listed in the RT2800USB_UNKNOWN category, which the openSUSE
kernel does not have enabled. Please post (inside code tags), the dmesg output
after you do the echo command above.

brihno · March 3, 2012, 5:43pm

sorry about the code tag thing:

su -
/sbin/modprobe -v rt2800usb
echo "1737 0078" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2800usb/new_id
exit

so that’s the code for getting the thing working in 12.1

the dmesg outputs are forthcoming.

brihno · March 3, 2012, 5:45pm

here is the dmesg result that has to do with my device:

  402.580971] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
  446.424079] usb 1-2: reset high speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
  446.669619] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
  446.670876] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio
  446.670909] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc
  446.670942] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality
  447.112496] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
  447.223328] NET: Registered protocol family 17
  450.598002] wlan0: direct probe to 00:23:a3:93:7f:10 (try 1/3)
  450.601264] wlan0: direct probe responded
  450.601287] wlan0: authenticate with 00:23:a3:93:7f:10 (try 1)
  450.603878] wlan0: authenticated
  450.652357] wlan0: associate with 00:23:a3:93:7f:10 (try 1)
  450.753787] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:23:a3:93:7f:10 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=3)
  450.753795] wlan0: associated
  450.763363] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
  461.504047] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
  880.192826] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount

brihno · March 3, 2012, 5:52pm

here is a bit more from dmesg:

    4.008435] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1737, idProduct=0078
    4.008442] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
    4.008447] usb 1-2: Product: Linksys RangePlus Wireless Network USB Adapter