[WMP54G ver 4.1] Re: Ubuntu Wireless question: was Re: Ubuntu Studio question

[NoOp]

On 09/23/2008 11:35 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Falkenburg
> <mandcfalk at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Sorry about the delay...like I said, it's a 3rd-shift dilemma.
>>
>> Here is the lspci -v info:
>> (oh yeah, before I forget, where in the world does the vertical line
>> come from - the one you had before "grep Ethernet" - and what does it mean?
> 
> The vertical line is called a pipe |
> 
> It's like a joiner between two commands - pass the output of this into
> the input of that  - connecting them like a 'pipe'
> 
> On a typical US 104 key keyboard it's usually located above the Enter
> key with the backslash \
> 
> It's one of the pillars of Unix.   For instance
> 
> ls -ahl   will list in long format all the files in the current directory
> grep Fred  will look for a line with 'Fred' in it from the information
> you pass into grep
> 
> Here's an example
> 
> ==> ls -ahl
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x    5 bmckee  bmckee  170B Sep 23 14:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x   96 bmckee  bmckee    3K Sep 23 14:30 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 bmckee  bmckee    0B Sep 23 14:31 fred.txt
> -rw-r--r--    1 bmckee  bmckee    0B Sep 23 14:30 somethingelse.txt
> -rw-r--r--    1 bmckee  bmckee    0B Sep 23 14:30 test.txt
> 
> ==> ls -ahl | grep test
> -rw-r--r--    1 bmckee  bmckee    0B Sep 23 14:30 test.txt
> 
> See how 'piping' the output of `ls` into `grep` let us find just what we wanted?
> 
> In his original suggestion to you, piping lspci thru grep to find
> Ethernet would have resulted in zero output.  It might have been a bit
> confusing, but it would have saved a lot of innocent bits that got
> shoved through my email for no good reason :-)

Correct... I was thinking it would be similar to:

$ lspci -v | grep Ethernet
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet
Controller (rev 01)

from my system.

But now that we know what the device actually is:
00:0b.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
    Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
    Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
    Memory at efff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>

maybe we can narrow down the problem.

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bhardy+%2BWMP54G+ver+4.1>

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCardsLinksys>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200142>
then again...
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870687>
[Flawless, easy, fast setup of Linksys WMP54G.]
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=30676
[Linksys WMP54G v4.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy (step-by-step)]

Hopefully someone on the list with a WMP54G ver 4.1 will step in to assist.