TalkTalk + Huawei HG521 + Ubuntu 10.04.01 i386 + misery, ANY IDEAS?

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On 01-Oct-10 17:01:04 Alan Pope wrote:
>On 1 October 2010 16:48, r <technical500 at talktalk.net> wrote:
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0df6:003f Sitecom Europe B.V.
>>

>Ok, so you're not alone in this. If you google for the 0df6:003f
>sequence of digits and the word Ubuntu you'll find others who have the
>same issue. The following blog post I stumbled upon seems to detail
>some quite technical details for fixing it. Shouldn't need to move the
>machine for this.

>http://johnsunixtips.blogspot.com/2010/08/sitecom-wireless-wl-608-54g-usb-dongle.html

reading the above I did the following:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and at the end put:

blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00lib

from the shell I did:

lsmod | grep rt

sudo modprobe rt2870sta

on rebooting, 2 wireless networks are shown, 1 is this one.


I gave the password, but Firefox wont load Google.

according to Administration--Network Tools,

there is continual data transmitted and received,

Link speed: 54Mbps, State: Active, MTU: 1500, 

however Ping doesnt work with say www.google.com or www.bbc.co.uk

"The address 'www.google.com' cannot be found
Please enter a valid network address and try again. Close"












>> and with the Ethernet cable everything functioned immediately without
>problem.
>>

>Its possible you might get it working without the detail in that blog
>post, but I am not 100% convinced of that.

>> unfortunately I then reinstalled Windows and Ubuntu wasnt on the boot
>screen.
>>

>For future reference if you install Windows after Ubuntu and it scrubs
>the boot screen, this page fixes that:-

>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows


>Cheers,
>Al.

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