rt73usb, linksys wusb54gr...cannot bring up wlan0!

mcfiredrill · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

I've been trying to get this wireless USB adapter to work...its an rt73...I enabled the r73usb as a module in the kernel config. I can succesfully modprobe rt73usb, but when I do a 'ifconfig wlan0 up', I get a
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

I've tried other names, ra0, wlan1, etc...nothing.
ifconfig and iwconfig show no wireless extensions.

I've searched the forum for help, people suggested enabling the rt2500 pci module in the kernel, did that, modprobed it, same results.
People also suggested copying the firmware to /lib/firmware, tried that too.

The output of dmesg doesn't look suspicious.....

Any ideas?

Thanks

-Tony

Paczesiowa · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

I had linksys wusb54g v4 (or smth like that) and it worked with rt2500usb, no firmware needed. anyway, if iwconfig doesn't show any interfaces then you either don't have wireless extensions in kernel or you're using wrong driver (more likely)

lelik · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:50 am Post subject:

unplug /plug usb cable
try to bring it up again
check dmesg
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mcfiredrill · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

Ok I can't paste the output of dmesg directly since that computer isnt connected to the internet, but I'll try to copy it manual here:

lelik · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject:

after unplug /plug did you try to bring it up?

mcfiredrill · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

mcfiredrill · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

RT2500usb module didnt work either...