Help needed with WUSB54GCv3

rab · 2009-09-05 03:54:53

Hey, I went out and bought a wireless usb dongle ( without doing my research ), and I'm struggling to get this to work properly. I've tried rt73usb from the kernel, 2.6.30-ARCH, and the device wasn't recognized. I've tried Ralinks 2870 and a few others from various tutorial on getting this device to work. I had two drivers recognize the device, after modding os/linux/usb_main_dev.c, RA2870STA & RA3070STA.

When I go to dhcpcd ra0, I keep getting..

dhcpcd: ra0: carrier lost
dhcpcd: ra0: carrier acquired
dhcpcd: ra0: broadcasting for a lease

and repeat...

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0077 Linksys

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[EDIT] I can also scan networks with iwlist ra0 scan.

Last edited by rab (2009-09-05 04:03:18)

djszapi · 2009-09-05 06:18:27

Hello rab!

What's in your output of ifconfig/iwconfig ? Did you try to conenct gui managers, like wicd/networkmanager too ?

rab · 2009-09-05 06:41:26

bash-4.0# iwlist ra0 scan
ra0       Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:06:25:E8:1D:DF
                    Protocol:802.11b
                    ESSID:"FREE INTERWEBZ!"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Channel:6
                    Quality:37/100  Signal level:-75 dBm  Noise level:-115 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

bash-4.0# iwconfig ra0
ra0       RT2870 Wireless  ESSID:""FREE INTERWEBZ!""  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:06:25:E8:1D:DF   
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-115 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I tried wicd and it fails on obtaining an IP address. I know it isn't the router because I am currently using the wireless on my laptop.

djszapi · 2009-09-05 07:20:00

Did you try with dhclient too the connection ?

schuay · 2009-09-05 07:43:45

Tried rt2870 from AUR? It's a newer version than the one in kernel.

tomk · 2009-09-05 08:02:28

And if none of the linux drivers work, try ndiswrapper.

rab · 2009-09-05 21:40:29

@schuay: Yes, i've tried building the rt2870STA driver. I could only get it to recognize the device, no scanning, not connection.
@tomk: I've tried ndiswrapper with rt73, netr28u (vista x86 driver on the install CD) and rt2870 (xp x86 driver on the install CD) and neither of them give wlan0 or ra0.

Ralink has done a horrible job supporting this. I've followed the thread on ubuntu about this driver and a lot of people have been having problems getting this to work. I'm thinking about just going and getting a new wireless adapter

rab · 2009-09-07 04:17:51

Just to inform anyone else who has this USB adapter. I was able to get it working on an open network. I've tried connecting encrypted, WPAPSK TKIP, via

RT2870sta.dat
wpa_supplicant
iwpriv

and neither of them worked.

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Help needed with WUSB54GCv3

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