Public bug reported: My laptop had an internal neither compatible with my wireless network nor with Linux. So, I decided to buy a network card compatible with BOTH.
After a few searches on the Internet, I found: http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/#pid88169 (Edimax 54 Mbps Wireless PCMCIA card). I first tried to run it from my windows xp already installed system. the card works perfectly with my wireless network. So, now, I am sure the network card is compatible with my WLAN 802.11b. I install Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) from the DVD. The card is plugged is plugged the pcmcia slot. During the installation in text mode, it is not recognized. At the first boot, network manager can see the ralink card and offers to connect to wireless networks. When I try to connect to my wireless network, it doesn't work. I type the WEP key in gedit to make sure it is correct and then do a copy- paste. It won't work at all. Used network manager. lspci | grep -i "RALINK" returns -> 07:00.0 Network Controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI lshw says the module is rt61lpci http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/rt61_serialmonkey won't solve my problem. I tried to install the older 7.10 from my other dvd, but same problem. rt61 won't work. I tried manual configuration with /etc/network/interfaces (in both 8.04 and 7.10) and didn't have any more luck. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- rt61: no connection established to a 802.11B WEP WLAN https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262253 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
