RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302] wireless adapter not working in Ubuntu 8.04

Hi,

Please see the answer from forumuser Bismuth at the following location:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=157147

So apparently, your wireless adapter should work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 8.10.

So I advise booting from the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD and to test your wireless during the LiveCD session. If it works, then install Ubuntu 8.10 from the LiveCD session onto your harddisk.

Regards,

Mark

please, click firefox file menu and uncheck work offline

thanks Mark for ur concern
i've tried ubuntu8.10 and fedora 10 livecd session but it's not working in them also.....
one more thing i want to tell you that wen i used ubuntu 8.04 as windows application using wubi installer wifi was working that time......
but now its not.
i m using vista ultimate along with ubuntu 8.04 (boot loader of ubuntu)....

hey rajusenthi thanks for ur concern ...
offline mode is unchecked../.
its showing another problem like
" failed to connect to server etc."

Hi puran157,

Please connect your network card to the wireless router using a LAN cable.

Then please follow this procedure, while inside Ubuntu 8.04:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (copy-paste each line below to the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo aptitude install hwinfo
hwinfo --netcard
sudo iwlist scanning
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -nn
lsusb
uname -a
dmesg | grep ound
dmesg | grep witch
iwconfig

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output from each command) on this thread

Regards,

Mark

om@om-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install hwinfo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "hwinfo"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "hwinfo"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
om@om-desktop:~$ hwinfo --netcard
The program 'hwinfo' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install hwinfo
bash: hwinfo: command not found
om@om-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 No scan results

om@om-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:19:d1:b3:36:35
       capacity: 1GB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=half latency=0 link=no module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
       vendor: RaLink
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:04:06.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:21:91:78:9e:f7
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
om@om-desktop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:29c1] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)
04:06.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302]
om@om-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
om@om-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux om-desktop 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
om@om-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep ound
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000fd2e0
[ 14.616611] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[ 14.795233] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 15.426285] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 15.426387] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 15.426519] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
[ 15.779810] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 15.811468] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 17.528005] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 17.631658] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 17.735452] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 17.839237] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 17.986850] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 25.140484] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
[ 28.000942] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 30.385009] No dock devices found.
[ 44.639108] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 1458.217473] usb-storage: device found at 3
om@om-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep witch
[ 14.342362] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 14.857103] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
om@om-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:15:70:D1:70:98
          Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
          Link Quality=57/100 Signal level=-50 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Hi,

Please try the solution from forumuser pytheas22 at the following location:

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=919921

Regards,

Mark

Hi,

If pytheas22's procedure does not work, then you can try this one instead:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT61

Regards,

Mark

Hi,

Please try the following procedure (which is very similar to pytheas22's procedure, but more detailed):

First disable encryption on your wireless router and make sure that SSID broadcasting is enabled on the router. (just for testing purposes)

Then open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install rutilt build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

rutilt will hopefully allow you to configure your wireless connection. Try starting up rutilt and see if it can find your wireless router.

If not, then do the following:

From the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads page you can download the latest RT61 CVS snapshot driver. While it is not stable it works flawlessly under most circumstances, but may contain bugs.

1. Download the daily CVS snapshot:

In a terminal, type : wget http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt61-cvs-daily.tar.gz

2.Unpack the tarball

In a terminal, type :

tar xvzf rt61-cvs-daily.tar.gz

3. Change to the rt61-cvs-xxx/Module directory (where xxx is the build date of the package)

4. Compile the module:

In a terminal, type :

./configure
make

5. Install the module and other necessary things.

In a terminal, type : sudo make install

6.

In a terminal, type : sudo gedit /etc/modules

Add the following line to the end of the modules file

rt61

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Add the following line to the end of the blacklist file

blacklist rt61pci

7. Load the module as root:

In a terminal, type : sudo modprobe rt61

That's it. At next reboot it will be loaded automatically. Now you can use your brand new driver, but you have to configure your wlan card. Try starting up rutilt again and see if it can find your wireless router. If that does not work, try using the NetworkManager icon to see if you find your wireless router.

Regards,

Mark