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D-Link DWL-510 not being detected correctly

Asked by Benjamin Hodgetts

This device seems to be "sort of" detected and set up as it shows up as "wlan0" in 'ifconfig' but when using anything such as KNetworkManager it shows up as "RaLink Unknown (0x0302) (wlan0)" and won't find any networks when scanning. Using the KWifiManager program just seems to go mad, it cycles through what seems like every possible state which doesn't help. The device is based on the RT61 chipset.

Some more possibly useful info:
lspci - 05:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Unknown device 0302

lshw:
        *-network:1
             description: Wireless interface
             product: RaLink
             vendor: RaLink
             physical id: 8
             bus info: pci@05:08.0
             logical name: wmaster0
             version: 00
             serial: 00:15:e9:af:2a:2e
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical wireless ethernet physical
             configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=CVS firmware=.bin link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
             resources: iomemory:d4000000-d4007fff irq:66

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Pascal Potvin (pascal-potvin) said : 		#1

This is really a special problem.

Here is my solution :

1 - Make sure you do have Universe and Multiverse enabled.
2 - Download this
http://tenshu.nuxit.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/rt61.tar.gz
and extract it to your home directory.
3 - Open a terminal and run "sudo sh testscript"
4 - At the end a window will open, and you will need to provide some default info : SSID, Encryption Type and Key
5 - Reboot and configure your network normally : by editing /etc/network/interfaces or System --> Administration --> Network.

Let the magic happen ! (Well I hope)

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Pascal Potvin (pascal-potvin) said : 		#2

Oh, just saying...

What I just wrote before is for dapper.

If you are using edgy, then :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT61?action=show&redirect=Rt61WirelessCardsHowTo

Good Luck :D

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Benjamin Hodgetts (enverex) said : 		#3

Oh, just thought I'd update this. With Feisty it's not quite so insane. It seems to detect it properly now and scans (actually floods dmesg over time which can be annoying) but it wont ever see any access points. I'll try your Edgy driver method a bit later (took the card out as it seems to have been causing hardlocks). I tried to get this card working with Gentoo previously and it would see networks but wpa_supplicant would never connect to the WPA-AES network.

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Pascal Potvin (pascal-potvin) said : 		#4

As long as you see wlan0 or wmaster0 instead of ra0, it won't work.

The Ralink driver method is the only known way of getting out of this. I had to correct this problem myself two weeks ago.

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