Installing Wireless adapter Driver

[waterhead]

The rt2870sta driver may actually be the better driver to use. But that depends on the chips this driver is using.

[spank_my_toaster]

Hi,
I tried the codes you suggested.

i just copied what was in the terminal directly.

abid@abid-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 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 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 15ca:00c3 Textech International Ltd. Mini Optical Mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
abid@abid-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep wlan
[   14.274922] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
abid@abid-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep rt28
[   11.004402] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::radio
[   11.004424] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::assoc
[   11.004443] Registered led device: rt2800usb-phy0::quality
[   11.004998] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb
[   11.085701] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[   11.090867] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
[   11.775251] Error: Driver 'rt2870' is already registered, aborting...
[   11.775256] usbcore: error -17 registering interface 	driver rt2870
[   11.937309] rt2800usb 1-3:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin
abid@abid-desktop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
abid@abid-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe -r rt2870sta
abid@abid-desktop:~$ sudo depmod -a
abid@abid-desktop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
abid@abid-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     No scan results

abid@abid-desktop:~$

[waterhead]

Your problem is two-fold.

1) Your system is loading two driver modules for your wireless:

rt2870sta
rt2800usb

They will conflict, and the wireless will never work.

2) The rt2800usb needs firmware installed before it will work:

[   11.937309] rt2800usb 1-3:1.0: firmware: requesting rt2870.bin

If you don't have this firmware installed, that driver will never work. Even after removing the rt2870sta driver.

The rt2870sta driver doesn't need any external firmware. In fact, to get the firmware you have to extract it from the rt2870sta driver. Why not just use the rt2870sta driver instead. Add the rt2800usb driver to the blacklist file, and reboot.

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Add this line to the bottom of the page:

blacklist rt2800usb

Save the file and exit. Now reboot and see if only the rt2870sta driver is loading. If all is good, use NetworkManager to connect.

[reed9]

gksu gedit /etc/init.d/blacklist.conf

This should be

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

no?

[waterhead]

reed9, it appears that I clicked the "Edit" button instead of the "Quote" button. I then edited your post, by mistake.

That's two mistakes in a row!

Sorry, I'll try to fix it.

Edit: I fixed it.

With great power comes great responsibility. I think that I failed this time!

Happy Holidays to all.

[waterhead]

This should be

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

no?

OOPS!

Thanks for checking my homework! I posted that in a hurry, before I rushed out to shovel the snow in my driveway. I'll correct that in my original post.