OK A bit more progress. I went to the Ralink (?) website and got hold of a copy of the latest RT73 driver... Now that seemed to compile properly. My problem now is getting it loaded and the old one (rt2500?) disabled/removed.
Something making use of modprobe I think... Cheers Jon Reynolds On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:21:13AM +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > Sounds like the wrong driver. > > Switch tack - what are the errors when you try to compile the Linux > drivers it came with? > > Sean > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Jon > Reynolds<maill...@jcrdevelopments.com> wrote: > > Ah, some more details... > > > > dmesg: > > > > [ ??607.768524] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request > > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. > > [ ??607.768558] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request > > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. > > [ ??607.768589] phy1 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request > > 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19. > > [ ??613.008118] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and > > address 3 > > [ ??613.310683] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > > [ ??613.431044] phy2 -> rt2500usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset > > detected. > > [ ??613.431057] phy2 -> rt2x00lib_probe_dev: Error - Failed to allocate > > device. > > [ ??613.713961] phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' > > [ ??613.715685] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:radio > > [ ??613.715716] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:assoc > > [ ??613.715745] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy3:quality > > [ ??613.730452] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 > > > > Hope that is meaningful... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jon Reynolds > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:50:30PM +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: > >> Results of /var/log/messages after plugging in dongle: > >> > >> Jul 21 21:49:21 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.008118] usb 1-1: new full > >> speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 > >> Jul 21 21:49:21 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.310683] usb 1-1: > >> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > >> Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.715685] Registered led > >> device: rt73usb-phy3:radio > >> Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.715716] Registered led > >> device: rt73usb-phy3:assoc > >> Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.715745] Registered led > >> device: rt73usb-phy3:quality > >> Jul 21 21:49:22 lisa-laptop kernel: [ ??613.730452] udev: renamed network > >> interface wlan0 to wlan1 > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Jon Reynolds > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:08:45PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >> > Jon Reynolds wrote: > >> > > But I just need some pointers to the obvious steps to take to try and > >> > > check whats working and whats not. It came with some linux drivers, but > >> > > I just get errors when trying to compile them that I don't understand. > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > Could you make sure the dongle is disconnected, open a terminal and then > >> > enter the command: > >> > > >> > tail -f /var/log/messages > >> > > >> > Then plug the USB dongle in and copy and paste what it says. ??Hopefully > >> > it'll give pointers on if a driver is installed. > >> > > >> > By the way, what is the model number of the dongle? > >> > > >> > Ta, > >> > > >> > Rob > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > >> -- > >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
