[Solved] Ralink dwl-g122 not working on Petra

[pasq2004]

As someone managed to have this dongle to work ?

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pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py 
[sudo] password for pascal: 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:ca:a5:21:3b  
          inet adr:192.168.1.27  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Masque:255.255.255.0
          adr inet6: fe80::240:caff:fea5:213b/64 Scope:Lien
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Packets reçus:30679 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000 
          Octets reçus:25392388 (25.3 MB) Octets transmis:4595349 (4.5 MB)

lo        Link encap:Boucle locale  
          inet adr:127.0.0.1  Masque:255.0.0.0
          adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          Packets reçus:5568 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 lg file transmission:0 
          Octets reçus:494878 (494.8 KB) Octets transmis:494878 (494.8 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		192.168.1.1
Address:	192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.101
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.138
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.139
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.102
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.100
Name:	google.com
Address: 173.194.78.113

pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ ^C
pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ 
 

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pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0111 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5111 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07d1:3c0f D-Link System AirPlus G DWL-G122 Wireless Adapter(rev.E1) [Ralink RT2070]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c050 Logitech, Inc. RX 250 Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
pascal@IMAX-X9300:~$ 

If this dongle doesn't work, I would apreciate any advice to buy a new dongle working "out of the box" without any installation or use of diskwrapper. Thx

[pasq2004]

Download (RT8070/ RT3070/ RT3370/ RT3572/ RT5370/ RT5372/ RT5572 USB USB) Driver on Mediatek web site, date 10/22/2012 on http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/?sort=os
File is : DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3_20121022.tar.bz2

Unpack in your Home dir

sudo make
sudo make install

A new file should be created in /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat
Add rt2870usb in etc/modules: sudo gedit /etc/modules

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
# Parameters can be specified after the module name.

lp
rtc
rt2870usb

Restart the system

[pasq2004]

Same procedure working with Mint 17 Mate