Wireless not working in Lubuntu 12.10 : Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

[Ronnie]

Make sure its not something simple like a wifi switch on the laptop.

Check your fn keys as well as looking for a switch.


On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:19:52 +0300
Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:

> During the installation and after booting the installed system,
> Lubuntu is not finding the wireless card or any local WLANs.
> Ubiquity is finding the device (Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI)
> but not any network that I care to set up.
> 
>   $ iwconfig wlan0
>   wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:off/any
>             Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off
>             Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>             Power Management:off
> 
> I tried earlier with 12.04 [1] and had no luck either.  The wireless
> does work, I did see it find a wireless network once before, but only
> once.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
> [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2038417
>