Right.
I had a nice experience with the usb_modeswitch guys. Figured out a number of ways to switch the device id- apart from using the software. The simplest one was to simply ‘eject’ the device. It disappears from “plugged in devices”, and lsusb yeilds ‘148f:9021 Ralink Technologies’. Just what i wanted.
Then, just configuration. Authentication simple, pings showed all ok, but konqueror couldn’t find requested server. So, i turned once again to the sticky, turned off IPv6, and i was online!
Thanks are in order! Or maybe, were in order…
After spending a happy 2 weeks online (sorry i didn’t update you guys during this time), along came 11.2, and i installed it (not ‘Upgrade’, but ‘Fresh Installation’. I have no idea why).
Positives- It had the driver & firmware for my device pre-installed, unlike 11.1.
Negatives- Well. Everything seems fine. At least, according to the sticky. Yet, i can’t connect. I’ve posted terminal results as proof:
uname -r:
2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"In The Buddha We Trust"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:24:93:04:49:F0
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:{you know} [2]
Power Management:on
Link Quality=42/70 Signal level=-68 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
/sbin/ifconfig:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:41:B5:96:C3
inet addr:192.168.1.35 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2d0:41ff:feb5:96c3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:116223 (113.4 Kb) TX bytes:82739 (80.7 Kb)
ping -c 5 192.168.1.1:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.54 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.00 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=2.58 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=2.47 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=2.14 ms
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.002/2.350/2.580/0.234 ms
ping -c 5 66.70.73.150
PING 66.70.73.150 (66.70.73.150) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 66.70.73.150 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms
Okay, what's this?
ping -c 5 www.samba.org
PING fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106): icmp_seq=1 ttl=39 time=202 ms
64 bytes from fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106): icmp_seq=2 ttl=39 time=202 ms
64 bytes from fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106): icmp_seq=3 ttl=39 time=212 ms
64 bytes from fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106): icmp_seq=4 ttl=39 time=202 ms
64 bytes from fn.samba.org (216.83.154.106): icmp_seq=5 ttl=36 time=203 ms
--- fn.samba.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 202.313/204.767/212.475/3.905 ms
/usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 | grep Mb:
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Also tried " /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 rate 24M", and then " /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M". No luck.
So, where to now?