D-Link WUA-1340 USB Wireless on Fedora 9

[Jayson Wonder]

Hello All,

I am struggling to get this USB wireless nic (D-Link WUA-1340) working on Fedora 9. It seems to work when I boot into Gnome but it does not work when I boot up to the console which I where I spent most of my time.

I see this odd wmaster0 entry when I run ifconfig so I think there is some problem.

Any help is appreciated! Here is the output:

/sbin/ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:7F:34:B3  
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe7f:34b3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:473350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:241166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:710673895 (677.7 MiB)  TX bytes:16615783 (15.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2121 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:108346 (105.8 KiB)  TX bytes:108346 (105.8 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:58:9E:37:02  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1E-58-9E-37-02-F4-FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

/sbin/iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=22 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          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

/sbin/lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 07d1:3c04 D-Link System WUA-1340
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

/sbin/lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
bridge                 46104  0 
bnep                   14464  2 
rfcomm                 34576  4 
l2cap                  22272  16 bnep,rfcomm
bluetooth              47588  5 bnep,rfcomm,l2cap
fuse                   41116  3 
sunrpc                151412  3 
loop                   16772  0 
dm_multipath           18056  0 
ipv6                  221660  12 
ppdev                  10244  0 
snd_emu10k1_synth      10240  0 
snd_emux_synth         33920  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         8960  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       9088  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_emu10k1           125828  4 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi            22400  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         94368  1 snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                5504  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
snd_seq_oss            30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48448  8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0 
arc4                    5760  2 
snd_mixer_oss          16768  1 snd_pcm_oss
parport_pc             25364  0 
parport                32084  2 ppdev,parport_pc
ecb                     6528  2 
snd_pcm                67076  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
crypto_blkcipher       17924  1 ecb
snd_seq_device         10124  7 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_timer              21640  3 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11400  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            7552  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep              10500  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd                    48312  23 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep
floppy                 52084  0 
pcspkr                  6272  0 
8139too                23936  0 
soundcore               9288  1 snd
8139cp                 20864  0 
emu10k1_gp              6656  0 
mii                     8192  2 8139too,8139cp
gameport               13708  2 emu10k1_gp
rt73usb                26880  0 
crc_itu_t               5760  1 rt73usb
rt2x00usb              12544  1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib              31744  2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
rfkill                  9108  1 rt2x00lib
input_polldev           7176  1 rt2x00lib
mac80211              185184  2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211               24712  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
i2c_viapro             10644  0 
i2c_core               20628  1 i2c_viapro
button                 10000  0 
sg                     31028  0 
sr_mod                 17064  0 
cdrom                  32796  1 sr_mod
dm_snapshot            18468  0 
dm_zero                 5632  0 
dm_mirror              26116  0 
dm_mod                 48980  9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_generic             8964  0 
pata_via               11524  2 
pata_acpi               8192  0 
libata                126688  3 ata_generic,pata_via,pata_acpi
sd_mod                 25624  3 
scsi_mod              120820  4 sg,sr_mod,libata,sd_mod
ext3                  108424  2 
jbd                    40852  1 ext3
mbcache                10116  1 ext3
uhci_hcd               22928  0 
ohci_hcd               22276  0 
ehci_hcd               32268  0

dmesg

sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:00:12.1/gameport0, io 0xe000, speed 1242kHz
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
8139cp 0000:00:13.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp 0000:00:13.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd293c000, 00:40:f4:7f:34:b3, IRQ 10
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0:radio
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0:assoc
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0:quality
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ALSA sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c:1747: vendor=0x1102, device=0x2, subsystem_vendor_id=0x80271102, subsystem_id=0x8027
ALSA sound/pci/emu10k1/emu10k1_main.c:1772: Sound card name=SBLive! Value [CT4832]
ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
loop: module loaded
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev sdb1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 589816k swap on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:589816k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (5120 buckets, 20480 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
fuse init (API version 7.9)
SELinux: initialized (dev fusectl, type fusectl), uses genfs_contexts
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.9
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.2
Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
Bridge firewalling registered
pan0: Dropping NETIF_F_UFO since no NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
SELinux: initialized (dev fuse, type fuse), uses genfs_contexts
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3028 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3064 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0c failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:radio
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:assoc
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:quality
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=07d1, idProduct=3c04
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1: Product: 802.11 bg WLAN
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Ralink
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

Any help or suggestions please?

[waterhead]

If you spend most of the time without a desktop environment, then you don't want a gui handling your network devices.

Open this program.

system-config-network

Click on the network card, and click Edit. Make sure that the box next to "Controlled By NetworkManager" is unchecked. You may want to do this for all network devices.

Now you can control the wireless through terminal commands. Here are some.

ifup
ifdown
iwconfig
iwlist

You bring to device online with ifup wlan0, and down with ifdown wlan0. You use iwconfig to set the connection specifics. Use these commands for more info on using it.

iwconfig --help

man iwconfig

You can use iwlist to check for available networks.

iwlist scan

Also run help and man commands for more info on this.

If you are connection to a WPA encrypted network, you will need to install and configure wpa_supplicant. This is not needed with NetworkManager, but if you're not using NetworkManager, it is needed for secure connections.

[Jayson Wonder]

Thanks for this info, I have read and tested the commands. I still cannot connect when I ping the router, I get a network unreachable error.

This is my error when try to run the
iwup wlan0

Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) :
     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.

[waterhead]

Try this:

iwconfig wlan0 rate auto

[Jayson Wonder]

Try this:

iwconfig wlan0 rate auto

After reading the man page that is the first thing that came to my mind. I have tried this and still no luck.

I also get this additional line in the error every a few tries (not each time:

Determining IP information for wlan0...dhclient(2486) is already running - exiting.

I am so confused...

[waterhead]

You may need to bring the device down and up again with the ifdown/ifup commands.

dhclient is also a command, something like this:

dhclient wlan0

[Jayson Wonder]

You may need to bring the device down and up again with the ifdown/ifup commands.

dhclient is also a command, something like this:

dhclient wlan0

Ok, this works if I add this in /etc/rc.local

/bin/sleep 3
/sbin/dhclient wlan0

apparently there is a bug and this is the work around.

What are your thoughts on using a STATIC IP for this wireless connection to avoid dhclient completly?

[waterhead]

As long as your router/access point is OK with a static IP, there should be no problem.

[Jayson Wonder]

As long as your router/access point is OK with a static IP, there should be no problem.

Yes indeed the router is ok with it but I wonder if you can tell me how ir where I make these changes?

I am thinking I need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

is this correct? and what specifically do I need to change?

thanks.

[waterhead]

I would use the file in the /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices. But the files there are identical to the ones in the network-scripts folder.

Change whatever you feel needs changing.

BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=<Put your static IP address here>

ESSID=<your wireless network name>
NM_CONTROLLED=no