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Benedict

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From: Beijing

Registered: 2008-09-08

Posts: 6

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wl-167g and ndiswrapper

Hello,

I'm using a usb wifi dongle (Asus wl-167g). I tried the rt2x00 drivers on it but didn't manage to make them work. So I now use ndiswrapper and netcfg2. It allows connection to my AP and to the internet. However, after a time, the connection completely stop working. I don't manage to make it work again (using netcfg2, iwconfig, etc...). In those case my only choice is to reboot (not so good). And even so, shutting down take a long time when the network connection is supposed to stop.

Has anybody met the same kind of issue? What should I do?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: wl-167g and ndiswrapper

A little googling revealed this stick uses the RT73 chipset, so forget about ndiswrapper.
The only thing you need is the rt2x00-rt71w-fw package for the firmware; the driver is already part of the kernel, the module name is 'rt73usb'.

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Benedict

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From: Beijing

Registered: 2008-09-08

Posts: 6

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Re: wl-167g and ndiswrapper

I would have loved it to be so easy... in fact the rt73 driver is only for the newer kind of wl-167g (second generation). The one I have belong to the first generation and the driver should be a rt2500usb/rt2570 one I tried with the rt73, after installing the firmware, but the dongle is not recognized.

adamc83

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 41

Re: wl-167g and ndiswrapper

Did you follow the wiki?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rt2x00