Tenda W311U 802.11n WiFi Mystery (well, to me...)

[hooya27]

Hello,

I just this week built a new system, and slapped Mint 8 x64 on it. I had no luck getting my Tenda W311U to work "out of the box". I tried the ndiswrapper thing to use the .inf file in my XP partition, and still nothing. I was about to plod through some rmmod and insmod dialog I found on the interwebs, and began with:

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sudo modprobe rt3070sta

After getting a message:

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WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.

I thought I was screwed. But then I got a pop-up by my network manager in the tray, saying I was connected!

Is this magic?

Dan

[richyrich]

Good for you, man . . thanks for sharing. And welcome to the forums . .

richy

[hooya27]

More for me than anyone else, but all are welcome, here's an update:

It turns out to be a known bug in Ubuntu 9.10 karmic, and derivatives, that rt2800usb gets loaded in this instance where rt2870sta is required. Thus:

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blacklist rt2800usb

needs to be in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
and

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rt2870sta

will enable the device when added to /etc/modules

Thanks for a great distro (now on four of my four machines!), and thanks for this thread popping up third from the top on Google a day after it was posted.

Now I know where to keep my grocery.list!

hooya27 (at) gmail (period) com