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

[Ronnie]

This will hopefully solve your issue.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70373/rt2561-rt61-wireless-doesnt-pick-up-ssid



On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:46:54 +0300
Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
>