Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

timeofmind
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

Post by timeofmind »

I downloaded the ubuntu 9.10 iso image that another user had prepared for the fit-pc2 and tried booting it. I get the same issue. rt2800usb module is loaded at boot and "iwlist wlan0 scanning" returns nothing - no wireless networks are listed under the network icon.
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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If this wireless card is an rt3090 than why is the kernel module named rt2860sta and not rt3090sta ?

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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For your information, here is the entire output of the lshw command on my fit-PC2i:

family-fitpc
description: Computer
product: CM-iAM/SBC-FITPC2i
vendor: CompuLab
version: Not Applicable
serial: Not Applicable
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp-1.4 smp
configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=oem-specific cpus=1 frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown power-on_password=disabled
*-core
description: Motherboard
product: CM-iAM/SBC-FITPC2i
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
version: 1.x
serial: Not Applicable
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
physical id: 0
version: NAPA0001.86C.0000.D.1002161811 (02/16/2010)
size: 94KiB
capacity: 960KiB
capabilities: isa pci pcmcia pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot acpi usb agp biosbootspecification
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z530 @ 1.60GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.12.2
serial: 0001-06C2-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: U3E1
size: 800MHz
capacity: 2666MHz
width: 32 bits
capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority cpufreq
configuration: id=1
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1 Cache
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-back
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: L2 Cache
size: 512KiB
capacity: 512KiB
capabilities: burst external write-back
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.1
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.2
width: 32 bits
capabilities: logical
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 12
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 1GiB
capacity: 1GiB
*-bank
description: SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous
physical id: 0
slot: soldered
size: 1GiB
width: 32 bits
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=iegd-intel
resources: irq:0
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d0080000-d00fffff ioport:1800(size=8) memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0040000-d007ffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:22 memory:d0010000-d0013fff
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:17 ioport:2000(size=4096) memory:d0100000-d01fffff memory:d0500000-d05fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:01:c0:07:61:c6
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0100000-d0100fff memory:d0500000-d050ffff(prefetchable) memory:d0520000-d053ffff(prefetchable)
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1c.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pciexpress pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
resources: irq:16 ioport:3000(size=4096) memory:d0200000-d02fffff memory:d0600000-d06fffff(prefetchable)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 02
serial: 00:01:c0:07:61:c7
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:d0200000-d0200fff memory:d0600000-d060ffff(prefetchable) memory:d0620000-d063ffff(prefetchable)
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:23 ioport:1820(size=32)
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.1
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:1840(size=32)
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB UHCI #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.2
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:18 ioport:1860(size=32)
*-usb:3
description: USB Controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) USB EHCI #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1d.7
bus info: pci@0000:00:1d.7
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm debug bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0
resources: irq:21 memory:d0014000-d00143ff
*-generic:0
description: SD Host controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) SDIO Controller #1
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:22 memory:d0014400-d00144ff
*-generic:1
description: SD Host controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) SDIO Controller #2
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.1
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:20 memory:d0014800-d00148ff
*-generic:2
description: SD Host controller
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) SDIO Controller #3
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1e.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1e.2
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=sdhci-pci latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:d0014c00-d0014cff
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) LPC Bridge
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa
configuration: driver=lpc_sch latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.1
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master
configuration: driver=pata_sch latency=0
resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:1810(size=16)
*-scsi:0
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:5
logical name: scsi2
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
size: 29GiB (32GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: signature=000aa9d4
*-volume:0
description: EXT4 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: b97e8a97-49ac-4703-a09e-cb0d137fea9e
size: 28GiB
capacity: 28GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2008-07-10 10:38:26 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/r�� ���^N������;9�����`��m���m���^N���������b��^N�0 modified=2008-07-10 14:39:48 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2008-07-10 15:35:12 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Extended partition
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
size: 1302MiB
capacity: 1302MiB
capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
*-logicalvolume
description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
physical id: 5
logical name: /dev/sda5
capacity: 1302MiB
capabilities: nofs
*-scsi:1
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:2
logical name: scsi3
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 29GiB (32GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: signature=c3072e18
*-volume
description: Windows FAT volume
vendor: MSDOS5.0
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@3:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sdb1
logical name: /media/sdb1
version: FAT32
serial: c69a-630f
size: 29GiB
capacity: 29GiB
capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,errors=remount-ro state=mounted
*-remoteaccess UNCLAIMED
vendor: Intel
physical id: 1
capabilities: inbound

Denis
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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Try to add rt2800usb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and reboot.
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timeofmind
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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Denis wrote:Try to add rt2800usb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and reboot.
I did this.

The computer boots up with no wireless device present.

Edit: I'm curious what was causing the rt2800usb module to be loaded.

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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I'm going to try downgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 as this guy did here:

http://fit-pc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 34&start=0
Willyp wrote: ***Problem solved.
By downgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 wireless started to work out of the box.
Hopefully that will work.

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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timeofmind wrote:I'm going to try downgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 as this guy did here:

http://fit-pc2.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... 34&start=0
Willyp wrote: ***Problem solved.
By downgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 wireless started to work out of the box.
Hopefully that will work.
Like this user says, wireless on Ubuntu 9.04 indeed works out of the box. The fitpc2 kernel image was not required.

The kernel module required for fitPC2i appears to be RT2870STA

I will keep my Ubuntu 9.10 installation and add this kernel module. Thanks.

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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For your custom fitpc2 kernel image, you should add the RT2870STA module in addition to the RT2860STA module for the fit-PC2i users. Thanks.

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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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Try to install linux image from our ubuntu 9.10 repo, rt3090 should work out of the box too.
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Re: Ubuntu 9.10 and WLAN ?

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Denis wrote:Try to install linux image from our ubuntu 9.10 repo, rt3090 should work out of the box too.
That is what I did originally. I've double checked and tried your image again (with rt2800usb blacklisted). No luck.

So far, the RT2870STA module is the only one that has worked for me, and I suspect it would be the same for other fit-PC2i users...

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