wireless USB adapter

[Hulk]

Hello all.

I'm leaving Windows XP land and trying out Linux Mint Cinnamon. I have loaded and made all the recent updates. I am having a real hard time getting my wireless USB adapter to work. It's a Panda wireless adapter and it's supposed to be "plug and play". However, it's not working. When I click on the wireless setting's it shows up, however, I can't turn it on. I thought it may be a driver problem, however, when I try using the driver manager, a blank grey screen comes up without any drivers listed. I've been working on this for days, but I can't get it to work. Will someone help me? Thanks.

[kyphi]

The Panda adapters are plug-n-play for Windows, partially so for Mac and perhaps so for Fedora.

http://superuser.com/questions/131751/a ... sb-adapter

You could try for assistance from the Panda website.

You may be better off getting something that works in LInux - saves pulling your hair out:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... sSupported

[Hulk]

Thanks for the reply Kyphi. I will try contacting the company for tech support. I bought the Panda wireless USB adapter because it said it was compatible with Linux. I'm a newbie and not very familiar with Linux, so I was hoping someone could help me trouble shoot. Perhaps it's a driver issue or a simple setting. Here is the output for my wireless settings:

$ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for hulk:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 8086:4222 (rev 02)
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:a9:49:67:77
inet addr:192.168.1.22 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:a9ff:fe49:6777/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:134043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:96508 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:170368207 (170.3 MB) TX bytes:10191550 (10.1 MB)

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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:3572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:394998 (394.9 KB) TX bytes:394998 (394.9 KB)

[PatH57]

Hi,

could you also post:

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lspci

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lsusb

so we can try to identify the chipset of the panda stick

[Hulk]

Hi Path57. As per your request. Here is the output:

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:03.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0a:03.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)

and

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:5372 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5372 Wireless Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[PatH57]

Hi,

I'll have a look at it.
any specific reason to use 2 wifi (internal intel and the stick)?

[PatH57]

also when you right click on network manager can you enable wifi?

[Hulk]

Thanks PatH57.

The internal wireless card is broken, so I have just been using a wirless usb adapter in the windows xp environment which has worked fine. To answer your second question, when I click on the network applet I can see the wireless USB device, but it says its "unavailable" and will not allow me to enable it.

[PatH57]

ok,

let's check this

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nmcli nm

[Hulk]

Here it is:


$ nmcli nm
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running connected disabled disabled enabled disabled

[PatH57]

how did you disable the onboard card?

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rfkill list

just to be sure you did RIGHT click on network manager? and select enable wireless?

[Hulk]

I fixed it. I took apart the computer and found out I had a defecive wireless switch on the mother board. A piece of plastic was not engaging the switch. So my internal wireless card was not broken, but a 3 cent piece of plastic was! It's now working fine and now I have a useless wireless USB adapter. Thank you very much for your time PatH57...I really do appreciate it.

[PatH57]

useless wireless USB adapter

no worries I have seen this before on some thinkpad laptops.
try the usb now it should also work.

[vrkalak]

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