Wireless LAN USB Fritz WLAN stick - ID 057c:6201 AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1 - not working in Ubuntu 9.10

I have a ASUS F5R

Try deactivating your built-in wireless card in the BIOS.

Hmm, I tried, but no effect.

Hi Rob,
Network-manager is able to handle multiple WLAN devices so there is no need of disabling built-in for stick to work, maybe your stick is not being recognized.
Can you unplug/plug the stick run a dmesg on terminal and post here the last(10 or so) lines of the output? That should tell us how the device is being recognized.

If everything fails, then you could try to install it with ndiswapper

Here is the output of lsusb

rob@laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 22b8:4902 Motorola PCS Triplet GSM Phone (AT)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 057c:6201 AVM GmbH WLAN USB v1.1
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0116 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass
Storage Device
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 174f:6a31 Syntek Web Cam - Asus A8J, F3S, F5R,
VX2S, V1S
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c045 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0471:1237 Philips TalkTalk SNU5630NS/05 Wireless
Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
rob@laptop:~$

Stick is there.

Here the output of dmesg. ( last few lines )

569.732127] sr 8:0:0:0: [sr2] unaligned transfer
[ 659.033817] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7
[ 660.272068] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 8
[ 660.413758] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 660.421322] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 660.433244] ndiswrapper version 1.55 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 660.592112] usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 8
[ 660.770476] ndiswrapper: driver fwlan (AVM
GmbH,12/28/2006,2.0.6.1647) loaded
[ 661.406064] wlan1: ethernet device 00:1c:4a:f0:69:71 using NDIS
driver: fwlan, version: 0x2000c6f, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'AVM
FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick', 057C:6201.F.conf
[ 661.406131] wlan1: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA,
WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[ 661.406232] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[ 661.423341] ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan1' to
'wlan2'
[ 661.423438] udev: renamed network interface wlan1 to wlan2
[ 661.430889] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan2: link is not ready

Network manager is allready installed.

I use Ubuntu 9.10

Kernel 2.6.31-18-generic

Hi Rob,

I hope you also understand German ;-)

The following link is extremely interesting (I think) and shows which AVM Fritz! drivers work with which versions of Ubuntu:

http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/FRITZ!WLAN_USB_Stick

The table shows that - due to regressions in the kernel ?? - only Ubuntu 6.06 (!!) works with native AVM Fritz! Linux drivers and wicd network manager. Newer releases of Ubuntu show issues.

Even if we get your FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick (Stick-ID 057C:6201) to work, I think it will only work at 54 Mbit speeds, not at 125 Mbit. I think it is a better idea to try to get the built-in wireless working instead......

So I personally recommend removing the Fritz! usb stick from your pc, enabling built-in wireless in the BIOS, rebooting and then sending us the output of the following command (while keeping the pc connected to the router using a LAN cable):

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Using the output from that command, we can continue with analyzing your built-in wireless issue....

Or is your built-in wireless already working fine?

Regards,

Mark

Hi I don't have wireless Lan inbuilt, only the Wland stick, does this mean I won't be able to browse the internet unless I put the laptop on the leash (the lan cable)?