I have an old computer in my room thats been outdated since we bought it back in '05. I figured I would try and speed it up by running a light version of linux (Mint 9 Fluxbox) and everything runs great! However, I am having trouble connecting to my wifi. On windows, Our Rosewill RNX-N300 works fine, but I cant seem to get it working on Mint.
I can click on the wireless, and I can attempt to connect to it, but it just wont connect. I know the password is right, as it works on XP, but it fails on Mint. I've tried copying over drivers via flashdrive, but I'm not sure what to do with the .tar.bz2 file.
mintWifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- RaLink RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R Cardbus
==> PCI ID = 1814:0701
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:26:5A:F5:84:C8
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:76:e1:bb:9f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xc800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:81036 (81.0 KB) TX bytes:81036 (81.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:6f:6f:67:75
inet6 addr: fe80::202:6fff:fe6f:6775/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:29568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6926805 (6.9 MB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:22
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* V. querying DHCP...
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 1699
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:02:6f:6f:67:75
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:02:6f:6f:67:75
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:e1:bb:9f
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:e1:bb:9f
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
