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

[Lars Noodén]

On 8/28/12 5:48 PM, leszek.lesner at web.de wrote:
> 
> Ronnie schrieb am 28.08.12 16:25:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> Or try executing sudo rfkill list all and make sure that wifi soft
> and hardblocking is set to no. If rfkill is not installed install it
> first. 

How do I unset hard blocking?

	$ sudo rfkill list all
	0: phy0: Wireless LAN
		Soft blocked: no
		Hard blocked: yes


> Also notice you need a firmware for your card to work. So plug
> in your ethernet and fire up jockey-gtk alias hardware drivers to see
> if it needs to download it.
> 
> --
> 
> Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendet
> 
> 

jockey-gtk will be harder, this machine is having problems with X. [2]
Is there a way to load the hardware drivers using regular shell utilities?

Regards,
/Lars


[2]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-openchrome/+bug/1041625