WI-FI RT2561

Yes I know this driver again.

As usual when trying a distro on a packaerd Bell easynote R1 Series I get into the problem.

So what would be the best way to install it, I tried with Ndiswrapper it gives error messages, tried to connect as root to change the source.list file, did not make it as I do not know how to connect as root, and some other trials

After 4 hours, I quit to get some help on what I should really work to get it installed.

I work with the lite version.

for debian in the file sources.list you have

deb http://debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non free (this is needed to make the firmware-ralink work

how you change this for ZORIN

Could you please post the result of the following commands:

Code:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
sudo rfkill list all
lsmod
uname -a
lsb_release -a

Hope I did that right

Packard-Bell-EasyNote:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
00:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]
Packard-Bell-EasyNote:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13fe:3d00 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Packard-Bell-EasyNote:~$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network:0 DÉSACTIVÉ
description: Interface réseau sans fil
produit: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
fabriquant: Ralink corp.
identifiant matériel: 6
information bus: pci@0000:00:06.0
nom logique: wlan0
version: 00
numéro de série: 00:10:60:67:28:59
bits: 32 bits
horloge: 33MHz
fonctionnalités: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=3.2.0-37-generic firmware=0.8 latency=64 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
ressources: irq:0 mémoire:ffff8000-ffffffff
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
produit: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
fabriquant: VIA Technologies, Inc.
identifiant matériel: 12
information bus: pci@0000:00:12.0
nom logique: eth0
version: 74
numéro de série: 00:40:d0:90:c2:ed
taille: 100Mbit/s
capacité: 100Mbit/s
bits: 32 bits
horloge: 33MHz
fonctionnalités: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.5.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.116 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
ressources: irq:11 portE/S:e200(taille=256) mémoire:d0000000-d00000ff
Packard-Bell-EasyNote:~$

PS: I manage to create a root account,did not know you have to activate it

Please also post the results of the following commands:

Code:

sudo rfkill list all
lsmod
uname -a
lsb_release -a


Also try this.
In terminal give:

Code:

sudo modprobe rt61pci

Can you see wireless networks now?

Hi

Sorry for late reply, I have to re-install linux ZORIN must have done something wrong

For now I launched the system upgrade so it takes a while

Otherwise I found this on the Net, may be it could help understand what is wrong : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.ph ... 0#p1959870

Also the keyboard has a Fn + F1 to activate the Wi-Fi but not working with Zorin and most linux I think.

To see if the wifi switch is turned on or off, just run in terminal the following command, and post here the results:

sudo rfkill list all

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

So the switch is on.

well I tried to install a package but ended up with errors from the package installer

(Reading database ... 105520 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firmware-ralink (from .../firmware-ralink_0.40_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/aurelie/firmware-ralink_0.40_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt3290.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.79.9
dpkg-deb (subprocess): subprocess data was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/aurelie/firmware-ralink_0.40_all.deb

As I see from your previous results that the driver is correctly loaded, before compiling any new driver please do the following:

In terminal give:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modules

In the document that will open, add the word

rt61

at the end of the file, in a separate line.
Save and exit.
Then again in terminal give the command:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and at the end of the line add the line:

blacklist rt61pci

Save, exit, reboot and see if your wireless is working. (I do not know if the second command is necessary as you have not provided the result of "lsmod".)



If not, then do the following:
1. Download from here the new driver (I have downloaded the correct driver for your device and I have uploaded same on my "ubuntu one" server so as to save you from the hassle).: http://ubuntuone.com/1yHnIaPNtOGkYv43GxEUCX
This will download the file called 2010_0825_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.6.tar.bz2

2. Go to your downloads folder, find the 2010_0825_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.6.tar.bz2 file, right-click it and select "extract here". This will produce a folder called: 2010_0825_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.6.

3. Open terminal and give the following commands, the one after the other:

Code:

cd /home/aurelie/Downloads/2010_0825_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.6/Module
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rt61

Is it working now? You may need to reboot.

The beginning does not work

Then when trying with the downloaded file I keep getting this message with the ./configure command:

Access denied

I tried to log as root same problem, even changed to the root user.

Thank you for your time, each time I work on linux I seem to get into the same troubles. I use to have a linux mail server, but switched to Hmailserver(windows) it is not perfect either but it runs since 5 years with no headache.

But as it is limited I keep trying linux.

What if you give the commands as

sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install