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

[Lars Noodén]

On 8/28/12 5:25 PM, Ronnie wrote:
> 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
>>
> Make sure its not something simple like a wifi switch on the laptop.
> 
> Check your fn keys as well as looking for a switch.
> 

The function keys were one of the first things I checked.  There is one
that appears to have a wireless symbol on it but seems to have no effect
on the output of iwconfig.

Regards,
/Lars