Belkin N150 Wireless USB adapter rt2870 not working

[ddmits]

I have made the changes you have suggested at the router. I have removed the ndiswrapper and tried again with rt2870sta (Ralink)

When I startup lsmod shows no such modules loaded
After I load manually I can see the module

sudo modprobe rt2870sta 
lsmod | grep rt28
rt2870sta             461811  0

Then I insert the USB and dmesg shows:

[   43.760131] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[  277.748602] rt2870sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[  277.766861] rtusb init --->
[  277.766977] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2870
[  409.516090] usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[  409.667551] usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

The USB led does not flash as it does usually in Windows. The light is permanently one.

 sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 20
       serial: 00:08:02:d1:d4:0b
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139cp driverversion=1.3 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.3 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:11 ioport:8800(size=256) memory:f4013000-f40130ff

I don't see anything apart from my etherned wired connection. After that if I execute dmesg I see some extra messages:

[  668.431288] pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: lshw.
[  668.431300] pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
[  668.431305] pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
[  668.431526] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
[  668.451826] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: excluding 0x60000000-0x60ffffff
[  668.472099] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: warning: no high memory space available!

The USB is inserted in a USB2.0 pcmcia card which works with other devices. I have tested that with an external hard disc. No problems there.

It is an old laptop but it works and I would not like to buy a new one just because my USB wireless stick does not work. Still if I don't solve this problem my only solution would be to use Windows
Should I do anything else... am I missing something? How can I know that it works?

[stinkeye]

Should I do anything else... am I missing something? How can I know that it works?

Sorry, I can't offer any troubleshooting for this.
I am a noob when it comes to networking.
I more or less stumbled upon the solution to get my wireless adaptor to work.

[ddmits]

FINALLY!!! I write this message connected with my USB Wireless adapter.

Many many thanks to flash63 who saved me with his post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...48&postcount=6

I followed the steps and added my USB ID. To find my ID i typed lsusb.

cd
cd RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0
sudo make uninstall

In the following change to match your ID. To find my ID i typed lsusb.

echo 'install rt2870sta modprobe --ignore-install rt2870sta ; /bin/echo "1737 0078" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2870/new_id' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2870sta.conf
sudo modprobe -rf rt2870sta
sudo modprobe rt2870sta
dmesg | egrep 'rt28|usb|Phy'
iwconfig

Initially I had some errors. After rebooting however it worked!
Finally I did

echo rt2870sta | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

to load it at startup....

May thanks flash63!

[stinkeye]

Congrats.
It makes your day when you see that connection established notification.
I also found out it will connect using wpa2 authentication.
In my router settings
wpa+wpa2 won't connect
but if I choose just
wpa2 it connects.

[ddmits]

UPDATE:
The default driver rt2870sta supports only WEP and the max Bit Rate I got was 1Mb/s.
I decided to investigate other drivers and finally succeeded in installing and using the rt3070 driver from Ralink.

Now it supports WPA also and the Bit Rate is 54Mb/s.

Let me share with you the details:

Download the latest driver from: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
RT3070USB(RT307x)
The file is called: DPO_RT3070_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.2_20100412.bz2
Unzip and extract and then cd to the extracted folder.

Unfortunately the installation does not work without changes....
To make it work you need to make the following changes (found at: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...ts-kernel.html)

cp RT2870STA.dat RT3070STA.dat

edit os/linux/usb_main_dev.c and add the following red line after: MODULE_DESCRIPTION(.....

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RT2870 Wireless Lan Linux Driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Then follow the steps below (found at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1342593)

Execute lsusb to find the id of your device. Mine is:

lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 050d:935a Belkin Components

Edit common/rtusb_dev_id.c and add the following line (change to match your id) to the list of devices (do not forget the 0x before the numbers)

{USB_DEVICE(0x050d,0x935a)}, /* Belkin N 150 */

Then compile and install:

sudo make
sudo make install

If you use the old driver to remove it type:

sudo modprobe -r rt2870sta

Test the new driver:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3070sta.ko
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
sudo restart network-manager

If this works then append the following line to /etc/modules

echo rt3070sta | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

so that the new driver loads at boot.

Good luck!

[Blümchen Blau]

Maybe it makes sense to take a look at Launchpad especially at Post #54 and following. Seems to be a similar problem with a lot of different solution suggestions.

It helped me solving issues with my RT2860 with WPA2+WPA-protected networks.

[darkSo]

double post, sorry

[darkSo]

Hi ddmits!

i followed your howto to get running my belkin wlan usb (the windows installation cd is giving me the rt2780.inf). but the only one thing i got back is while printing "iwconfig":

lo        no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
 ra0       Ralink STA  ESSID:""  
           Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated     
           Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   
           RTS thr:eek:ff    Fragment thr:eek:ff
           Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-87 dBm
           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

network manager is saying me the device is not ready

how can get it work. maybe u can give me a hint!

it should be a "new" pc 4 my sister and i have to leave during the next 10 hours...

so please answer if you are online!

thnak u very many

p.s.: i had an error during this attempt:

sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname  -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2870sta.ko

ang got this:

insmod: can't read  '/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2870sta.ko':  No such file or directory

in this folder is no rt2870sta.ko only the rt3070sta.ko
so i modified your entry:

sudo insmod  /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3070sta.ko

but then i got:

insmod: error inserting  '/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3070sta.ko':  -1 File exists

please i need help and as soon as you can....

[Talon2]

This bug may help. Please feel free to add to this bug.

[ddmits]

sudo insmod  /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3070sta.ko

but then i got:

insmod: error inserting  '/lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3070sta.ko':  -1 File exists

please i need help and as soon as you can....

I guess that you have already installed the rt3070. Can you write the outputs of the commands:

lsmod | grep rt3
lsmod | grep rt2

when you start your system?