How to activate the rt2570 wireless adapter?

[Ray01]

Hi out there

I'm new on Linux (Mint). Did install yesterday and everything seems working fine. Except the wireless adapter rt2570. I don have Wifi working.

This is my system's information:

ay@ray-MS-7091 ~ $ inxi -Nn
Network: Card-1: VIA VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] driver: via-rhine
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:11:09:f3:4a:90
Card-2: Ralink RT2570 Wireless Adapter driver: rt2500usb
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:11:09:df:8f:9b

ray@ray-MS-7091 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for ray:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:f3:4a:90
inet addr:192.168.2.18 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fef3:4a90/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1951 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3702723 (3.7 MB) TX bytes:326947 (326.9 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:31333 (31.3 KB) TX bytes:31333 (31.3 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.254
Address: 192.168.2.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.138
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.102
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.139
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.100
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.113
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.65.101

ray@ray-MS-7091 ~ $ echo "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/wifi.conf
[sudo] password for ray:
options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8
ray@ray-MS-7091 ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: ray-MS-7091 Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: System: MEDIONPC product: MS-7091
Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: MS-7091 Bios: Phoenix version: 6.00 PG date: 01/10/2005
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-HT-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 6384.5
Clock Speeds: 1: 2800.00 MHz 2: 2800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV410 [Radeon X700 PRO] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: VIA VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] driver: via-rhine port: d300 bus-ID: 03:06.0
IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Ralink RT2570 Wireless Adapter driver: rt2500usb ver: 2.3.0 usb-ID: 001-004
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (1.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1600JD size: 160.0GB temp: 33C
2: id: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD1600JD size: 160.0GB temp: 33C
Partition: ID: / size: 144G used: 4.4G (4%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 3.22GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 60.5C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 168 Uptime: 27 min Memory: 673.3/3035.4MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17
ray@ray-MS-7091 ~ $


Can someone help me out?

[JeremyB]

Please open a terminal window and paste this command

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wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info

And copy the contents of the wirless-info.txt file, then paste at paste.ubuntu.com and post the URL

[Ray01]

http://paste.ubuntu.com/12580207/

[JeremyB]

What Model computer? It shows that it is disabled by a switch

[Ray01]

Medion, Pentium-4 dual-core

As I was using Windows-XP on it, it worked perfectly

[Ray01]

there is no special switch for wireless conections

[JeremyB]

Some laptops use the FN combo for hard block, have you tried that? Just check

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rfkill list all

to see if it makes it hard block no or if it is the same as most computers and just toggles the soft block on and off

Does the Medion have a model number

It is possible that going into BIOS and reset to defaults might work also

[Ray01]

ray@ray-MS-7091 ~ $ rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

It's a Medion model: PC MT 7, type: MED MT 346

[Ray01]

I also did a BIOS reset, but without any luck

[simiain]

Having a similar problem, I think, I installed Mint using Ethernet, for various reasons but I also want the wireless adaptor to work, I know it is there.

Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
driver: 8139too ver: 0.9.28 port: a000 bus-ID: 02:05.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Fujitsu Siemens s miniCard D2301 802.11bg Wireless Module [SiS 163U] usb-ID: 001-003

but

iain@iain-GA-8I915PM-FS ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for iain:
-------------------------
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
-------------------------
* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:55:fd:3a
inet addr:192.168.1.90 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fe55:fd3a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4871 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8112020 (8.1 MB) TX bytes:700407 (700.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:52721 (52.7 KB) TX bytes:52721 (52.7 KB)

-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
-------------------------
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.58.208.78


============================================


wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info


http://paste.ubuntu.com/12583987/

No Wlan, just need to find the bugger, it's there but it's not there.

Hope I'm not Hijacking a thread, this was the closest to my issue.

Ta

[JeremyB]

Having a similar problem, I think, I installed Mint using Ethernet, for various reasons but I also want the wireless adaptor to work, I know it is there.

Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
driver: 8139too ver: 0.9.28 port: a000 bus-ID: 02:05.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Fujitsu Siemens s miniCard D2301 802.11bg Wireless Module [SiS 163U] usb-ID: 001-003

but

iain@iain-GA-8I915PM-FS ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for iain:
-------------------------
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
-------------------------
* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:55:fd:3a
inet addr:192.168.1.90 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fe55:fd3a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6834 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4871 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:8112020 (8.1 MB) TX bytes:700407 (700.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:672 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:52721 (52.7 KB) TX bytes:52721 (52.7 KB)

-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
-------------------------
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 216.58.208.78


============================================


wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info


http://paste.ubuntu.com/12583987/

No Wlan, just need to find the bugger, it's there but it's not there.

Hope I'm not Hijacking a thread, this was the closest to my issue.

Ta

Please buy a TP-Link WN722N 150Mbps as it is supported in Linux Mint/Ubuntu. Your USB wifi has no support from Linux and the only option is to use Windows XP drivers with ndiswrapper. The results I had with ndiswrapper were horrible

[simiain]

I will do that but it's built in, it's not a dongle

And I won't be buying a usb adaptor anyway plenty of space inside the case.