I need help here. I just install ubuntu desktop 11.10 and can't get my wireless card work. it is based on RALink chipset.
I've found a link pointing to a driver: http://suporte.dlink.com.br/suporte/index.php. but it seems that this driver doesn't include data for a kernel 3.x compilation, only 2.4 and 2.6 :(
can somebody help me?
EDITED:
After have removed and reinstalled the card into the machine, Ubuntu starts to recognize the card as a RALink at least. But RT61pci default driver didn't work. The network get the status of UNCLAIMED:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:03:02.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=32
resources: memory:d0500000-d0507fff
So after have tried dozen of times to build the linux driver from DLink support site, I gave up and have tried with Ndiswrapper.
I discover that I need to use a 64bit driver and the only one that worked was the XP64 that I found here.
Now its getting better because I can see more things with iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"dlink"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-121 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
but I still can't connect to AP :(
lspci -nnk:
03:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302]
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless Network Adapter (Rev.C) [1186:3c09]
Kernel driver in use: ndiswrapper
Kernel modules: rt61pci
rfkill list all :
returns nothing.
sudo lshw -class network :
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:03:02.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+netrt61g driverversion=1.56+D-Link,06/12/2009, 1.02.08. latency=32 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
resources: irq:21 memory:d0500000-d0507fff
dmesg | grep -i firmware
or possiblydmesg | grep -i phy
- there should be something in the kernel logs showing what happens when its loading the network.