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Excellent ! it works also with usr805422 (us robitics) - Thank you very much for this page

i have the same card but the driver files are rt73,and this info does not work with my ubuntu 5.10, some ideas please.

I'm new to Ubuntu and linux in general. I tried following this walk through with dapper but I think it goes wrong at the "sudo ndiswrapper -hotplug" step as it just regurgitates a list of valid commands like -e and -i but not -hotplug.

"driver present, hardware not present"

This is where it goes wrong, it cant find my nic, thats really strange cause he founded my
usb external hard disk immidiatelly.

Can anyone help me with this ?

I compiled the ralinktech module for the RT73 series of USB adapters. My vender card is D-Link WUA-1340 compiling is not hard to do, its keeping it working that seems to be the issue. I will stay connected for about a minute, then it will lose its connection.

Ubuntu 6.06

I am trying to connect using WPA-PSK with TKIP encryption, but it seems to work for only about a minute, then it dies, and configuring it on the system just freezes the system. I had better luck with Mandriva 2006 at least it doesn't freeze the system.

Hi,
thanks for the guide, but I am having problems at the end - I run;

"sudo ifup wlan0"

And I get;

"/etcnetwork/interfaces:8: unknown method
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces""

Any Ideas???

Thanks for these clear and simple steps to get wifi up and running with the device. It works for me fine but I can not boot the machine (or reboot) without needing to remove the d-link from my machine first, then plugging it in after I've fully booted onto my desktop. I can't simply leave it in there.

I followed your steps with my Ubuntu 6.10 PC.

Is there a step I missed?

Thanks,
Midia

Please can someone help me on this.
The ndiswrapper -i has worked, and a -l says "driver present, hardware present"
I've added the neccessary lines to /etc/network/interfaces, but an ifup wlan0 doesn't work.
I get the following error:

Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks.

Hi,

Just a thought, but maybe your driver uses a different interface (i.e. not wlan0). My rt73 driver uses the 'rausb0' interface instead. What does the '/sbin/ifconfig' command show?

Colin

In the same dilemma as Toby, after nearly three days of trying to get this USB wireless dongle to work.

Have ended up installing lots of packages (e.g. locales_2.3.22_all.deb, linux-libc-dev_2.6.17.1-11.35_i386.deb, libc6-dev_2.4-1ubuntu12_i386.deb, libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12_i386.deb, python_2.4.2-0ubuntu3_all.deb, python-glade2_2.8.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb, python-glade2_2.8.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb, python-gtk2_2.8.6-0ubuntu1_all.deb, ndiswrapper_1.8, ndiswrapper-utils-1.8_1.18-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) and run dozens of configuration commands.

However when I issue the command "sudo ifup wlan0" I get the same error message

Ubuntu is my first adventure into linux and I only installed it yesterday so I know nothing about anything!

But I hope these comments may help someone since this post was SO useful to me in getting my belkin USB adapter working.

My adapter is a version 2 and I used the rt2500usb.inf driver from the supplied disk.

I agree with the comment above that ndiswrapper -hotplug is not a valid command in the ndiswrapper supplied with Ubuntu 6.06.

In my setup when editing the interface file (iface wlan0; inet dhcp auto wlan0) I had to change wlan0 to rausb0. The device then shows as active in system - admin - network but if I input the details of my router into the connection when I click OK it freezes. This seems to be a common problem and one I am looking in to.

I found installing wlassistant (wireless assistant in the install menu) useful for showing that the wireless device was working - one can see networks with SSID broadcast enabled but I cannot connect using this app because when it runs it nags me about having insufficient permissions (I am working on this).

The way I did get it working was from terminal to use the commands iwconfig rausb0 essid "youressidhere" and iwconfig rausb0 key WEPkeyvalue. After inputting these the connection works fine! However the connection is not persistent on reboot.

I think the answer to both the wlassistant permissions and persistent connection are found in this thread

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/blog/w322/2006-09-09/Auto_connect_to...

which I am going to try tonight.

I did much the same, but with xubuntu instead (old computer). I was able to get the "hardware present, driver present" and when I executed the iwconfig command I noted that it said Link Quality: 0/0.

The Network panel recognizes my router and I entered the same ESSID and password as I use on my wireless mac (and wife's wireless XP machine). Still it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Followed the guide but, i think I messed up..i do everything..and when i try the ifup wlan0...i get a message saying suplicate interfaces..cannot read....etc/network/interfaces

Help anyone?

When I put in the code for where my *.inf file is (cd /media/cdrom0/drivers/) I get a message saying no such drive or folder exists even though my cd is properly mounted. Is it possible to copy the drivers file into the computer then acces it from withon and if so what would the command look like. Cheers

I have the WUA-1340 D-Link wireless adapter... took me a day and a half of searching, and just about the time i was about to give up (after fiddling for hours with ndiswrapper), I found WICD!

WICD is a network manager, and it takes the place of the "Network-manager" package that comes with ubuntu.

edit: I'm a noob like you, so don't expect me to know whats up if you run into problems with the way that I did this... (but I would like to know if you did)

I simply:

--uninstalled the Network-manager package (using System>Administration>synaptic package manager)

--installed the WICD package
(if you're accessing the internet from a windows computer, just download from sourceforge: [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wicd/wicd_1.3.1-all.deb?modtime=1184023948&big_mirror=0[/url] )

--ran the WICD package, and it saw my router, and i clicked 'connect' and POOF! wireless internet!

I'm talking to you about 5 minutes after i got it working (I'm spreading the word.)

edit: I'm not sure if uninstalling network manager will disconnect your ubuntu system if you are currently accessing the internet from it (through wired connection, and trying to get wireless to work). So you might want to make sure you have the necessary file (the WICD .deb) downloaded before uninstalling network manager.

Hi, Im trying to connect 2 laptops using an Ad-Hoc wireless connection using only Linux code. Im pretty new to Linux and Im trying to understand the coding but so far I have been pretty unsuccesfull about it. does anyone have an idea or can give me an idea what will be the steps or the coding that I need for this? thank you

Hi - tried for days to get Ubuntu to recognise my Netgear WG311v3 including installing Wicd. Found your site, followed your instructions, removed Wicd, reinstalled network manager and "hey presto!" the wireless network registered my system and 4 others in the neighbourhood. So I'm wireless and ever so grateful.