xboxboy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Hi guys, I have a D-link wireless usb connection. In windows it was a matter of installing the drivers and plugging in. How ever I'm not sure where to start with Mandy. I plugged it in and nothing happend, or so it seemed. It's model is DWA-110. The d-link site didn't appear to have any linux on there at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 (edited) It's using a Ralink chipset, which is natively supported-either by the proprietary Ralink driver (module rt73), or natively since kernel 2.6.25 (module rt73usb) What kernel version you are using? ( #modprobe -a ) Edited March 21, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted March 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Kernel is: [matthew@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-desktop-1mnb [matthew@localhost ~]$ I don't follow what you mean with the modprobe command, that didn't return anything/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 The modprobe command scarecrow gave will modprobe all possible kernel modules, and therefore if the module wasn't loaded for that particular USB modem, then it would have been loaded with that command. Alternatively, you can do modprobe specifying a particular module, and then only that one module would have been loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 We could see if it's loaded with the output of lsmod | grep rt73usb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 [root@localhost matthew]# modprobe -a Usage: modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-n] [-i] [-q] [-b] [-o <modname>] [ --dump-modversions ] <modname> [parameters...] modprobe -r [-n] [-i] [-v] <modulename> ... modprobe -l -t <dirname> [ -a <modulename> ...] [root@localhost matthew]# lsmod | grep rt73usb rt73usb 25472 0 crc_itu_t 5888 1 rt73usb rt2x00usb 13056 1 rt73usb rt2x00lib 29312 2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb usbcore 137968 9 rt73usb,rt2x00usb,usblp,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid [root@localhost matthew]# Looks as though the lsmod command works. I loaded MCC and the wireless card is showing as a connection adaptor, so hopefully I just need to configure it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 It appears that you're using the proper module, so it's just a matter of going to mcc > network & internet > set up a new network interface, and follow the instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindwave Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 i dont know if anyone else has had this issue, but i did have an issue attempting to setup several different USB adapters when using open WEP as security. On most distros I could see my link and everything esle. but NOTHING could get them to 'connect' via open wep I would manually enter the key asnd it failed every single time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 I do have myself a similar USB stick (Asus wl-167g, based on the same Ralink chip), and it's working fine, as long as "rt2x00usb" is blacklisted and only rt73usb is allowed to load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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