[SOLVED] USB Wireless adapter

Hi everyone,
my name is Enno,and I am new to this forum and to Linux as well.After being pampered for years by windows I thought it s time for some steps into the real world.
So all is well and I have Zorin smoothly running,but now I am trying to make a wireless internet connection work.
I have done some searching and have been typing lots of weird commands into the terminal window, but no succes up to this point.
Anybody out there who can give me some help with this ?

regards , Enno

Hi EnnoHem, and welcome to the Zorin forum! Please be patient and wait for our 'par excellence' wireless moderator, madvinegar to assist! If he can't sort you out, no-one can!

I have got it working now, using the steps I found in this thread : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1949996
It works perfectly,except that it only works for about one minute ,and I have to start it up again etc.
which is pretty annoying, to say the least.
What to do ?

I think madvindegar is the man with the solution!

Hi. Can you please post back the following commands after you connect?

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsusb
sudo lshw -c network
lsmod


Also, have you black listed any module? How do you get it starting up again when it drops?
Any info will be useful.

Hi,thanks for your reply,

I blacklisted RT2800usb and RT2870sta. When the connection drops I click on the desktop the connection icon,disconnect and connect wireless again,then it works for about a minute or so.
This is what I get when I type your commands, I hope its useful..

enno@enno-desktop:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
enno@enno-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1058:1001 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. External Hard Disk [Elements]
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05fe:0011 Chic Technology Corp. Browser Mouse
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e3:070e Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 Card Reader
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 001 Device 006: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
enno@enno-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for enno:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: ra0
serial: e8:4e:06:19:57:94
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN ip=192.168.178.11 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
enno@enno-desktop:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 12617 1
snd_hrtimer 12648 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 63829 1
snd_hda_intel 38307 3
snd_hda_codec 117617 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13272 1 snd_hda_codec
k8temp 12842 0
snd_pcm 80890 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
dm_multipath 22402 0
serio_raw 13031 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
scsi_dh 14427 1 dm_multipath
ip6t_REJECT 12533 1
xt_hl 12465 6
ip6t_rt 12473 3
snd_rawmidi 25114 1 snd_seq_midi
nf_conntrack_ipv6 13871 7
nf_defrag_ipv6 13025 1 nf_conntrack_ipv6
ipt_REJECT 12485 1
xt_LOG 17192 10
xt_limit 12541 13
xt_tcpudp 12531 18
rt5370sta 726397 1
xt_addrtype 12563 4
nf_conntrack_ipv4 14071 7
nf_defrag_ipv4 12649 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state 12514 14
snd_seq 51280 3 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
ip6table_filter 12711 1
ip6_tables 17819 1 ip6table_filter
ppdev 12817 0
nf_conntrack_netbios_ns 12585 0
nf_conntrack_broadcast 12541 1 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns
nf_nat_ftp 12548 0
nf_nat 20857 1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack_ftp 13118 1 nf_nat_ftp
nf_conntrack 67003 8 nf_nat_ftp,nf_conntrack_netbios_ns,nf_nat,xt_state,nf_conntrack_broadcast,nf_conntrack_ftp,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv6
iptable_filter 12706 1
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
ip_tables 17791 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 21974 13 ip6table_filter,xt_hl,ip_tables,xt_tcpudp,xt_limit,xt_state,xt_LOG,iptable_filter,ip6t_rt,ipt_REJECT,ip6_tables,xt_addrtype,ip6t_REJECT
snd_timer 24411 3 snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm,snd_seq
rfcomm 37420 0
bnep 17736 2
bluetooth 202266 10 bnep,rfcomm
snd 56485 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
shpchp 32129 0
binfmt_misc 17260 1
i2c_nforce2 12876 0
soundcore 12600 1 snd
parport_pc 27504 1
mac_hid 13037 0
ext2 67262 1
lp 13299 0
parport 40753 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
btrfs 783372 0
zlib_deflate 26445 1 btrfs
libcrc32c 12543 1 btrfs
dm_raid45 75357 0
xor 26062 1 dm_raid45
dm_mirror 21621 0
dm_region_hash 16012 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18137 3 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror,dm_raid45
hid_generic 12484 0
usbhid 41805 0
hid 87001 2 hid_generic,usbhid
usb_storage 47684 1
nouveau 843003 3
mxm_wmi 12893 1 nouveau
wmi 18590 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
video 18894 1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 nouveau
ttm 75385 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 47545 1 nouveau
firewire_ohci 35451 0
firewire_core 61718 1 firewire_ohci
pata_acpi 12886 0
drm 228489 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
forcedeth 61777 0
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
sata_nv 23004 2
pata_amd 13761 0
enno@enno-desktop:~$ ^C
enno@enno-desktop:~$

Could it do any harm ( or any good ) if I followed these steps as described by Wolfman ( quote from "WIFI not working ") ?

Wolfman wrote:Hi,

further to MV's post, please do a full update using your network cable per this guide:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2247

The best terminal command (Ctrl + Alt + t) from the guide is this one which will force an update if any dependencies are missing, restart your PC after updating!:

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

Let us know if that helps.

Regards Wolfman

Hi,

it won't hurt to try!.

Mmm, the

CODE:SELECT ALL
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

didn t help, found no problems,fixed no problems

Try this.
In terminal give

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/rt5370sta.conf

A blank document will open. Inside it copy/paste the following line:

Code:

options rt5370sta ips=0 fwlps=0

Save, exit, reboot.

I tried, but now he doesn't recognize the Wifi adapter anymore.

EnnoHem wrote:I tried,but now he doesn t recognize the wifi adapter anymore .

To revert the change, you can just delete the file we created and reboot.

Code:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/rt5370sta.conf

OK, the change has been reverted, any suggestions ?

What can I say... Chili555 is the grand guru for wireless problems.
His instructions about your card are athe following:

Go here: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 Download this to your desktop: RT8070/RT3070/RT3370/RT5370/RT5372USB Right-click it and select Extract Here. Rename the file that's extracted to RT5370. Right-click it and select Extract Here.

RANT: The automagic tools that extract files in Ubuntu work great until they don't and ole Chili has to tapdance. It is far easier than it once was and less easy than I hope it will someday be. END RANT.

Open the resulting folder and go to os > linux and use any text editor to edit config.mk. Please set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'. Proofread carefully, save and close the text editor.

Now, a geek's dream; open a terminal and do:
cd Desktop/2011Press Tab and the remainder will fill in. Press Enter. Now do:
sudo su
make
make install
modprobe rt5370sta
exit

I suppose you did follow these instructions, especially the part that says:

Open the resulting folder and go to os > linux and use any text editor to edit config.mk. Please set 'HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y' and 'HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y'. Proofread carefully, save and close the text editor.

There is no mention to blackilist any module (like with the instructions you said you followed).
Maybe you can run the above instructions again carefully and see if that helps?

So I reinstalled the driver twice,first the one from the disc included with the adapter,and then with the downloaded one from the ralink site.But in both cases it cuts out after one minute or less.

Last idea in my mind.

Open terminal and run the following command:

Code:

echo 'options rt5370sta nohwcrypt=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/rt5370sta.conf

Reboot and see if that helped.

In case you get any problems you can just delete the file we created by running

Code:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/rt5370sta.conf

He wont connect at all now, sorry

There is no mention to blackilist any module (like with the instructions you said you followed).

I deleted the blacklisting that I created and that seems to do the trick!
I will test a bit tomorrow and hopefully I can put up a sign that says: [ solved ]
Thanks , Madvinegar ,for your help

I new that there must have been something wrong with that, this is why I told you to follow again the guide of Chili555 - who does not say to blacklist any module.

Lets hope this will do the trick.

Yep, looks like its running flawless.
At last I can get rid of the tripwire now