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Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:18 am**

http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/MintWifi

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:25 pm**

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=33561

Please post back here (C to G at least), we'll try to help . . .

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:14 am**

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1737:0077 Linksys

okay .

. it looks like it is being detected. Now we should try and find out what drivers are loaded for it.
Please post the output of (from the terminal): inxi -N

richy

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:41 am**

Put a space between the inxi and the -N

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:30 am**

The WUSB54GC uses the rt73 chip
Here are two links to working solutions
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... gc#p166561
The link to Ubuntu forums will probably help you out
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 4gc#p57098
Note that from Gloria the file is called blacklist.conf - important This is not the line you should follow first

Posted: **Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:41 am**

Just because your question got somewhat skirted, Mint is probably the most newbie-friendly distro there is. Ubuntu would definitely not be easier for you.

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:18 am**

You should try ndiswrapper - Windows Wireless Drivers (To find the app just open the menu and type win)
Have your Windows driver handy and use the applet to install it
I think the Windows driver is found on some CD/DVD you have

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:05 pm**

I'll check in on this as soon as I have the time for it

Posted: **Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:05 pm**

It's found in lsusb

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:39 am**

Either use ndiswrapper - Windows Wireless Drivers
This is pretty much self explanatory - just add (the right) .inf file and off you go
You may have to blacklist the Linux driver already present
Do

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lsmod | grep rt

You should get rt73 or rt25xx - if you get nothing just do a lsmod and look through the list
Then do

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sudo modprobe -r rtxxxx

where rtxxxx of course it the module you just found
If you need to do that to make it permanent do

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echo blacklist rtxxxx | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Again replace rtxxxx with the module you found
The other option is this thread in the Ubuntu forums, but that is more than a bit geeky
A variation of the Ubuntu solution is found here
Also geeky bot not quite as much
Note that these solutions needs build-essential to be installed
I think a saw another solution just the other day, but I don't find it now

Posted: **Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:02 pm**

This means that the ralink driver is not loaded and ndiswrapper should work and I see it in lsmod
Have you added the Windows driver?

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:59 pm**

I found the USB ID to be 1737:0077 from the output of mintWifi
This is not a rt73 chip it is changed to rt3070 in this model

I have found a solution that I think works but it is a bit geeky
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1273401
This is not sufficient to help you but I'll try to do something from it, but that will have to wait until tomorrow (not much time today - it may not seem so but I do have a life outside Mint

)

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:01 am**

I've started work on this, but I have run out of time for now

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:18 am**

I tried to attach a modified driver, but it was too large so we have to be even more geeky

Take it easy and you will fix it
First, download the source for the rt3070 usb driver from ralinktech
It is RT3070USB you should download - second from top modified 11/06/2009
Extract the driver (with the "Archiver" and right click this is a two step operation) and you end up with a folder called 2009_1106_RT3070_Linux_STA_V2.1.1.0 (best on the desktop)
Unknown why, but the WUSB54GC is left out of the list of devices in this driver
Editing is necessary
You'll find a file called
os/linux/usb_main_dev.c
Beginning on line 76 (the number may vary slightly) you see

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        {USB_DEVICE(0x203D,0x1480)}, /* Encore 3070 */
#endif // RT3070 //
        { }/* Terminating entry */

Add

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{USB_DEVICE(0x1737,0x0077)}, /* Linksys WUSB54GC */

so it looks like

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        {USB_DEVICE(0x203D,0x1480)}, /* Encore 3070 */
        {USB_DEVICE(0x1737,0x0077)}, /* Linksys WUSB54GC */
#endif // RT3070 //
        { }/* Terminating entry */

Now the WUSB54GC will be recognized
You'll find another file called os/linux/config.mk
Change

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HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=n
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n

to

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HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

You have now modified the driver source so it can be used with WUSB54GC
Open a terminal (right click) in the "root folder" you just created
Install build-essential so you can compile

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apt install build-essential

Run

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sudo make

To ensure that the driver (module) is loaded at boot

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echo "rt2870sta" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

I think this should do it but the documentation in the driver talks of copying
RT2870STA.dat to /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/
There is no Wireless folder in etc in my Gloria, but it may be created during the compiling
If you have that folder you might as well copy the file ( sudo cp RT2870STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat )
Reboot and all should be well
Sorry for the long solution - it's the only "real solution" I've found
( Credit )

Posted: **Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:43 am**

What a pity
Welcome back, lets hope you can connect in the future
The WUSB54GC USB is working, I know that for sure, but it can be the rest of your hardware that gets in the way....

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:59 pm**

Hmm - it seems that the 3070 chip is not as well supported as other RaLink products but I finally found a solution that does not look too difficult here
If you feel like trying it first install build-essential

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apt install build-essential

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