[SOLVED] wusb100 and driver problem

[MisterX]

Im a complete noob when it comes to linux, after a long time debating, I've decided to give it a go. Im using Ubuntu 9.04

I was trying to set up my wireless adapter (linksys wusb100) yesterday night and I tried using NDISwrapper. I tried installing netr70, in which failed, as the windows driver menu said that the hardware was not detected. When I tried installing netr28ux, and subsequently rt2870, the menu said that the hardware was detected, but a pop up box stated "unable to see if hardware is present", while the adapter was plugged in...
does anyone have any idea whats going on here?

[reed9]

Hi and welcome.

Please post the output of the following three commands:
lsusb

lsmod

uname -r

Assuming it is the rt2870, there is a native driver, but it looks like it's pretty new and may be a little rough around the edges. Also a bit of work to install, so maybe not the easiest thing for someone new to linux.

You didn't mention, but I'm going to guess you're using Ubuntu. If not, what distro are you using?

For Ubuntu and the native driver:
ubuntu_rt2870sta / FrontPage

For ndiswrapper, which may in fact be the easier way to go, I would install ndisgtk, a graphical interface for ndiswrapper.
Belkin N Wireless USB F5D8053 (Ralink RT2870 chipset) on Ubuntu Jaunty Linux

[MisterX]

misterx@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1737:0070 Linksys
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4d16 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
misterx@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 43688 1
binfmt_misc 18572 1
i915 75272 2
drm 123232 3 i915
bridge 63904 0
stp 11140 1 bridge
bnep 22912 2
input_polldev 12688 0
video 29204 0
output 11648 1 video
lp 19588 0
snd_hda_intel 557364 3
snd_pcm_oss 52352 0
snd_mixer_oss 24960 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 99336 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 11524 0
snd_seq_oss 41984 0
snd_seq_midi 15744 0
snd_rawmidi 33920 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 16512 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 66272 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 34064 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 16276 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
iTCO_wdt 21712 0
iTCO_vendor_support 12420 1 iTCO_wdt
ppdev 16904 0
snd 78792 15 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,sn d_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_de vice
pcspkr 11136 0
parport_pc 45096 1
parport 49584 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
intel_agp 39408 1
soundcore 16800 1 snd
ndiswrapper 250624 0
snd_page_alloc 18704 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usbhid 47040 0
usb_storage 94912 0
8139too 36608 0
8139cp 31488 0
mii 14464 2 8139too,8139cp
fbcon 49792 0
tileblit 11264 1 fbcon
font 17024 1 fbcon
bitblit 14464 1 fbcon
softcursor 10368 1 bitblit
misterx@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
2.6.28-11-generic
misterx@ubuntu:~$

I did use ndisgtk with the installation of the driver
Im using ubuntu 9.04

[reed9]

That all seems ok. What's the output of
ndiswrapper -l

sudo lshw -C Network

Note that the ndiswrapper -l is a small L, not a 1.

[MisterX]

misterx@ubuntu:~$ ndiswrapper -l
netr70 : driver installed
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
rt2870 : driver installed
device (1737:0070) present
misterx@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -C Network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes

[reed9]

netr70 : driver installed
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
rt2870 : driver installed

It may be that having both of these loading is causing a conflict. I would remove netr70.

I found a script on the Ubuntu forums to help troubleshoot ndiswrapper.
[ubuntu] New Automatic Ndiswrapper Troubleshooting Guide - Ubuntu Forums

[MisterX]

I removed the netr70 driver, and followed the script troubleshooting guide, with no success. When I brought up ndisgtk, the pop up box still comes up with the message that it is 'unable to see if hardware is present'. When running the scripting tool, it says that the type of connection should come up as a wireless connection, not the ethernet interface as shown below.


*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes

[reed9]

You're right, it's not showing your wireless. Just to cover the basics, the device was plugged in, right?

I found here, that this message may mean pciutils is not installed. Try

sudo apt-get install pciutils

What is the output of iwconfig?

Also post the output of dmesg

It's going to be very long, so I suggest piping it to a text file to make it easier to copy

dmesg > dmesg.txt

This will create the file dmesg.txt in your current directory. When you post it, use code tags.

[MisterX]

The device is plugged in,

misterx@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install pciutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
pciutils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

misterx@ubuntu:~$  iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

The result of the dmesg as follows

[    8.896224] ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B
[    8.896231] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'rt2870'
[    8.896764] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver rt2870; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
[    8.896818] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
[    9.045974] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[    9.677556] EXT3 FS on loop0, internal journal
[   12.571069] Adding 262136k swap on /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262136k
[   12.780815] type=1505 audit(1254260814.028:2): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession" name2="default" pid=2044
[   12.829785] type=1505 audit(1254260814.076:3): operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient-script" name2="default" pid=2048
[   12.829936] type=1505 audit(1254260814.076:4): operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient3" name2="default" pid=2048
[   12.829984] type=1505 audit(1254260814.076:5): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" name2="default" pid=2048
[   12.830031] type=1505 audit(1254260814.076:6): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" name2="default" pid=2048
[   12.966983] type=1505 audit(1254260814.212:7): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" name2="default" pid=2053
[   12.967205] type=1505 audit(1254260814.212:8): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" name2="default" pid=2053
[   12.998941] type=1505 audit(1254260814.244:9): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump" name2="default" pid=2057
[   14.833114] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   14.833117] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   14.857715] Bridge firewalling registered
[   16.186978] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   16.193768] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   16.193775] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   16.193951] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 on minor 0
[   16.266244] [drm:i915_setparam] *ERROR* unknown parameter 4
[   16.266283] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
[   16.862473] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6
[   19.752350] eth0: link down
[   19.752814] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[  256.151893] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 6

[reed9]

8.896224] ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B
[ 8.896231] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:206): couldn't prepare driver 'rt2870'
[ 8.896764] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:108): couldn't load driver rt2870; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

You're using a 64 bit linux distro. You'd need to find a 64 bit windows driver...if there is one. The other options are to install a 32 bit version of linux, or try and compile the linux driver.

Actually, it's possible it's in the linux-backports-modules-jaunty package. Not sure. Remove ndiswrapper, make sure the module isn't loading and try installing that.

Enable backports: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
Then

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

Otherwise here is a how to for compiling the driver.
HowTo: WLAN Ralink RT2870 USB Stick + (K)Ubuntu 8.10 a p f e l k r a u t . o r g