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Ralink wifi cannot setup
georgp24:
I got a Ralink RT2501/RT2573 (USB wireless adapter) working in Core Linux 477 now.
In dmesg it showed up as "rt73usb". It was automatically detected, "iwconfig" showed it as "wlan0". I had installed "firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz" from 5.x though via onboot.lst so this may have helped.
So all I had to do then was to run "sudo wifi.sh" and connect to the network. This was an open access point.
I also tried a Ralink PCI adapter before. For this I had to do "sudo modprobe rt61pci" before it showed up with iwconfig.
Also helpful was the "rfkill" utility which shows if the adapter is blocked somehow. I found that I had to press the wifi button first to remove the "hard blocked" state. After that I entered "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" to enable the adapter.
So in your case I would do:
"sudo modprobe rt73usb" and see if it then shows up in iwconfig. If yes, enter "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" followed by "sudo wifi.sh".
Hope this helps.
Georg
Stone.Giant:
--- Quote from: georgp24 on April 13, 2014, 04:03:12 PM ---I got a Ralink RT2501/RT2573 (USB wireless adapter) working in Core Linux 477 now.
In dmesg it showed up as "rt73usb". It was automatically detected, "iwconfig" showed it as "wlan0". I had installed "firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz" from 5.x though via onboot.lst so this may have helped.
So all I had to do then was to run "sudo wifi.sh" and connect to the network. This was an open access point.
I also tried a Ralink PCI adapter before. For this I had to do "sudo modprobe rt61pci" before it showed up with iwconfig.
Also helpful was the "rfkill" utility which shows if the adapter is blocked somehow. I found that I had to press the wifi button first to remove the "hard blocked" state. After that I entered "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" to enable the adapter.
So in your case I would do:
"sudo modprobe rt73usb" and see if it then shows up in iwconfig. If yes, enter "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" followed by "sudo wifi.sh".
Hope this helps.
Georg
--- End quote ---
I did not download firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz but I saw rt73usb and modprobe it
--- Code: ---tc@box:/$ modprobe -l | grep wireless
kernel/drivers/tty/ipwireless/ipwireless.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/airo.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/airo_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl_core.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl_sdio.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/ath6kl_usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/wil6210.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/atmel.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/brcmsmac.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmutil/brcmutil.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_plx.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl4965.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwlegacy.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/iwldvm.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_sdio.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/usb8xxx.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/libertas_tf_usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/mwifiex.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/mwifiex_pcie.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/mwifiex_sdio.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/mwifiex_usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_plx.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_tmd.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/spectrum_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko.gz
[color=red]kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko.gz[/color]
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/rtl8180.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/rtl8187.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192c/rtl8192c-common.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/rtl8723ae.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtlwifi.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/wl1251.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl1251/wl1251_sdio.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/wl12xx.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/wl18xx.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/wlcore.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/wlcore_sdio.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/net/wireless/lib80211.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_ccmp.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_tkip.ko.gz
kernel.tclocal/net/wireless/lib80211_crypt_wep.ko.gz
--- End code ---
tc@box:/$ sudo modprobe -v rt73usb
--- Code: ---tc@box:/$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
rt73usb 20480 0
rt2x00usb 12288 1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib 28672 2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
mac80211 155648 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 110592 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
speedstep_lib 12288 0
cpufreq_stats 12288 0
cpufreq_powersave 12288 0
cpufreq_userspace 12288 0
cpufreq_conservative 12288 0
snd_intel8x0 20480 0
snd_ac97_codec 73728 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 12288 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 49152 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 20480 1 snd_pcm
snd 36864 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 12288 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 12288 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
squashfs 24576 117
loop 20480 234
ppdev 12288 0
mperf 12288 0
floppy 45056 0
parport_pc 24576 0
parport 24576 2 ppdev,parport_pc
e100 28672 0
lpc_ich 16384 0
microcode 12288 0
mfd_core 12288 1 lpc_ich
pcspkr 12288 0
--- End code ---
--- Code: --- tc@box:/$ iwconfig
ip_vti0 no wireless extensions.
dummy0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
tunl0 no wireless extensions.
--- End code ---
--- Code: --- tc@box:/$ dmesg | tail -20
microcode: CPU1 sig=0xf41, pf=0x4, revision=0x9
microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3000.501 MHz
Switching to clocksource tsc
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4
loop: module loaded
Adding 511540k swap on /dev/zram0. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:511540k SS
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
Adding 511996k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:511996k
EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
snd_intel8x0 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 53239 usecs (2565 samples)
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
e100 0000:03:08.0 eth0: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 2
usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
--- End code ---
Should I reboot first?
Here are the links from my CD firmware maybe this will help you identify which should I modprobe. Thanks.
http://www.4shared.com/zip/qVeQrrYnce/RT2870_Firmware_V22.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/W_HzKiUcba/2011_0225_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/OjIeZ4ygba/2011_0719_RT3070_RT3370_RT5370.html
georgp24:
Since I used Corelinux I had to add firmware-ralinkwifi.tcz, I guess Coreplus already comes with this firmware.
What you list seems to indicate that rt73usb is loaded, but I would just try to load it anyway with "sudo modprobe rt73usb". Maybe it then shows up with iwconfig.
You may also look at dmesg after some time again. I currently have trouble with a Broadcom wifi adapter. After booting the dmesg log looked ok for me, but after unsuccessfully running wifi.sh and other tools I looked at dmesg again and there were several errors reported.
I agree that this is probably not very helpful for you.
georgp24:
You could also compile a RT5370 usb driver as described here:
[Tutorial] Howto install ralink RT5370 wifi adapter: http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=8333
Stone.Giant:
Thanks for that info I'll try ASAP
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