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I'm having trouble getting my usb device working properly. Or rather I'm having trouble getting it and Linux to play nice together.

I'm working with Cassandra and it will recognize that I have my wireless device in. Well, from the GUI everything seems to be working but I don't have any choices under 'wireless networks' and if I 'choose other wireless' and put in all the details it just says 0%

It does the same now that I've made sure I have the prism driver installed using ndiswrapper.

After removing my ethernet connection and running mintWifi.py this is the output:

• -------------------------
  * I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -------------------------
  * II. querying ndiswrapper...
  netprism : driver installed
  device (2001:3700) present (alternate driver: prism2_usb)
  -------------------------
  * III. querying iwconfig...
  lo no wireless extensions.
  
  eth0 no wireless extensions.
  
  wlan0 no wireless extensions.
  
  -------------------------
  * IV. querying ifconfig...
  eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:80:59:80
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  RX packets:22748 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:22847 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:7799008 (7.4 MiB) TX bytes:3491697 (3.3 MiB)
  Interrupt:16 Base address:0x6000
  
  eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:80:59:80
  inet addr:169.254.6.191 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
  UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  Interrupt:16 Base address:0x6000
  
  lo Link encap:Local Loopback
  inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
  RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:3664 (3.5 KiB) TX bytes:3664 (3.5 KiB)
  
  -------------------------
  * V. querying DHCP...
  There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 5955
  killed old client process, removed PID file
  Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
  Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
  All rights reserved.
  For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
  
  SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
  SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
  Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00
  Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:00:00:00:00:00
  Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0e:a6:80:59:80
  Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0e:a6:80:59:80
  Sending on Socket/fallback
  receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
  DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
  send_packet: Network is down
  DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
  DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
  send_packet: Network is down
  DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
  DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
  DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
  send_packet: Network is down
  DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
  No DHCPOFFERS received.
  No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
  -------------------------
  * VI. querying nslookup google.com...
  ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

can someone help me sort this out? and also translate that which is supremely relevant in the output as well, so I might learn something in the process

Thanks for reading

oh, and another weird thing, on the graphical wireless driver tool (ndisgtk? or ndiswrapper) it says "Hardware present: No" even though the d-link usb is in. and in the daemon.log it says "NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_set_mode (): error setting card wlan0 to Infrastructure mode: Operation not supported"

Ok, so I followed part of this tutorial
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux- ... post470915

The "problem" section of the tutorial. and after the final modprobe ndiswrapper everything clicked and it asked me the keyring thing and Voila! worked. I was pretty stoked... That is until I restarted my computer.

Now what happens is this: I'll boot up Cassandra and it won't recognize that my d-link DWL-122 usb device is even plugged in (even though the device is receiving power and both lights are solid). Not listed under lsusb. I physically unplug and plug it back in. -- it shows up but the network manager doesn't see it. I type and things click and I'm prompted for the keyring password. Everything works.

Now, how can I make it so it works from the get go without having to do the modprobe-ing? Do you think it's just a finicky usb device? Don't remember having this issue in winXP so I'm relatively sure it's not the device. Perhaps the usb controller, not sure how those work.

~Steve

looks like the usb module is being a bit daft.

you could modprobe the usb module (may be more than one) to remove it and insert it again to rescan for usb devices.

I have seen similar problems with usb devices.

You could try:

sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart

if not, then the new way is:

sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

That should force a re-scan.

Sorry, I am not very familiar with debian. In slackware, you would add this line to rc.modules:
I searched for it by hand (I'm using the xfce edition and I can't find a search function), but I could not find it or an equivalent file. Maybe someone else can help out.

john

Thanks for the input john, Boo

For some reason today everything seems to be working just fine. curious

~Steve