RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301] not working in Ubuntu

Hi,

Please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Run the following commands (type each then hit <enter>)

sudo iwlist scanning
nm-tool
iwconfig
ifconfig
sudo lshw -C network
lspci -nn
lsusb
uname -a
dmesg | grep ound
dmesg | grep illswitch

Step 3: Post results (cut/paste terminal output from each command) here

Regards,

Mark

Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

thanks Tom enter question solved in error still on going

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for dennis:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
> dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for dennis:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for dennis:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for dennis:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist scanning
[sudo] password for dennis:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan1 No scan results

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

pan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
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dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ nm-tool

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: Wired
  Driver: cdc_ether
  State: connected
  Default: yes
  HW Address: 00:16:E3:4E:F1:57

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes
    Carrier Detect: yes

  Wired Settings

  IPv4 Settings:
    Address: 192.168.1.2
    Prefix: 24 (255.255.255.0)
    Gateway: 192.168.1.1

    DNS: 192.168.1.1

- Device: wlan1 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type: 802.11 WiFi
  Driver: rt61pci
  State: disconnected
  Default: no
  HW Address: 00:1A:EE:00:D9:00

  Capabilities:
    Supported: yes

  Wireless Settings
    WEP Encryption: yes
    WPA Encryption: yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Access Points

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=5 dBm
          Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 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

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:e3:4e:f1:57
          inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:e3ff:fe4e:f157/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:3976 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3410 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4070437 (4.0 MB) TX bytes:402087 (402.0 KB)

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:84 (84.0 B) TX bytes:84 (84.0 B)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:ee:00:d9:00
          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 00-1A-EE-00-D9-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          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)

dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -c network
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
       vendor: RaLink
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:1a:ee:00:d9:00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
  *-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: eth0
       serial: 00:16:e3:4e:f1:57
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=cdc_ether driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=CDC Ethernet Device ip=192.168.1.2 link=yes multicast=yes
  *-network:1 DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: 72:08:4a:bc:85:11
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8361 [KLE133] Host Bridge [1106:3112]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8361 [KLE133] AGP Bridge [1106:b112]
00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] [1106:0686] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge [0680]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [1106:3057] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3058] (rev 50)
00:08.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]
00:0a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:0a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:0a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller [10b9:5237] (rev 03)
00:0a.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller [10b9:5239] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 [1023:8500]

Bus 006 Device 003: ID 069a:0318 Askey Computer Corp. Remote NDIS Device
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 03f0:1e04 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 055f:0006 Mustek Systems, Inc. ScanExpress 1200 UB
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 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux dennis-desktop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 22 17:22:40 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep ound
[ 0.815170] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 2.491068] pci 0000:00:00.0: Applying VIA southbridge workaround
[ 2.846559] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 3.191173] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 5.549828] No dock devices found.
[ 6.069547] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.279134] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.486026] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.750915] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 6.910891] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.174962] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 96.690326] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 1688.876434] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 1724.594340] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 1765.789418] UDF-fs: No VRS found
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep illswitch
dennis@dennis-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep i

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Hi Dennis,

Please try the following procedure:

First disable encryption on your wireless router and make sure that SSID broadcasting is enabled on the router. (just for testing purposes)

Then open a terminal and run the following commands:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install rutilt build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

rutilt will hopefully allow you to configure your wireless connection. Try starting up rutilt and see if it can find your wireless router.

If not, then do the following:

From the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads page you can download the latest RT61 CVS snapshot driver. While it is not stable it works flawlessly under most circumstances, but may contain bugs.

1. Download the daily CVS snapshot:

In a terminal, type : wget http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt61-cvs-daily.tar.gz

2.Unpack the tarball

In a terminal, type : tar xvzf rt61-cvs-daily.tar.gz

3. Change to the rt61-cvs-xxx/Module directory (where xxx is the build date of the package)

4. Compile the module:

In a terminal, type :

./configure
make

5. Install the module and other necessary things.

In a terminal, type : sudo make install

6.

In a terminal, type : sudo gedit /etc/modules

Add the following line to the end of the modules file

rt61

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Add the following line to the end of the blacklist file

blacklist rt61pci

7. Load the module as root:

In a terminal, type : sudo modprobe rt61

That's it. At next reboot it will be loaded automatically. Now you can use your brand new driver, but you have to configure your wlan card. Try starting up rutilt again and see if it can find your wireless router. If that does not work, try using the NetworkManager icon to see if you find your wireless router.

Regards,

Mark

Thanks Mark everything working
 all the best Dennis