problem installing a card......

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Hello Nathan,
This may not help and it's a lot of trouble but it got
my wireless card working on my gutsy machine:
Install driver
Shutdown and remove card
Reboot without card
Shutdown again and reinstall card
and to keep from having to do a sudo ifdown wlan0
followed by sudo ifup wlan0 you can put the commands
in /etc/rc.local. I believe I also had to add the
module in /etc/modules. If you decide to try this,
email me direct and I'll start the wireless machine
and check it out for you.  It's to late to do it now
but would be happy to check it out tomorrow.
The driver may have improved since gutsy but it was
quite quirky. Except for the use of rc.local I found
most of the info googling for the RaLink drivers and
there were many variation in procedure. you may just
have to do some googling and reading to solve the
problem; I did.  Wish I could help further but it's
been a while. Good luck.

--- nathan bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> P.W.--
> 
> I get the following:  *02:04.0 Network controller:
> RaLink RT2561/RT61
> 802.11g PCI*.  The *Network Settings* sheet shows
> three rows:
> 
>    1. Wireless
>    2. Wired
>    3. phone/modem
> 
> This is actually an improvement from before, when
> *wireless* wasn't even
> listed (this *may* have to do with the fact that
> when I examined the card, I
> discovered that it wasn't snapped in all of the way.
>  I thought that I had
> the problem solved, but no dice; the insignia in the
> upper right hand corner
> *still* only gives the wired option.
> 
> --N.B.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Philip Wyett
> <philwyett at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:44 -0400, nathan bahn
> wrote:
> > > P.W.--
> > > Yes, it says RT2561ST.
> > > --N.B.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Philip Wyett
> <philwyett at gmx.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >         On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:12 -0400,
> nathan bahn wrote:
> > >         > Hello there,
> > >         >
> > >         > I have a Zonet ZEW1603 wireless N.I.C.
> (802.11g) that I am
> > >         unable to
> > >         > install in this desktop that I'm
> working on.  The O.S. is
> > >         not
> > >         > recognizing the card at all.  It
> doesn't show up on any of
> > >         the G.U.I.
> > >         > menus.
> > >         >
> > >         > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> > >         >
> > >         > --N.B.
> > >         >
> > >
> > >
> > >         Can you look at the card and confirm the
> chip on-board.
> > >
> > >         Is it a Ralink RT2561?
> > >
> > >         Regards
> > >
> > >         Phil
> > >
> > >         --
> >
> > Doing a bit of googling, the device should work
> out of the box with
> > 8.04.
> >
> > What doe the command:
> >
> >  lspci | grep Ra
> >
> > return?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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Leonard Chatagnier
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