internet problem

[cavpete]

hello all great to have a teccie forum for linux...




my problem is i have just converted to ubuntu well was held at gunpoint and so far i like it great gui fast the problem i have is that i cannot connect to the internet. i necer used ubunu before and been told it is a nightmare to install. i have a invental wireless modem 802 11g usb 2.0 ubuntu wont recognise it and i dont know what i am doing as i am a newbie to this o.s

[Andy]

Hi cavpete, the Linux guys are currently firefighting a major problem on a member's forum but hopefully somebody can step in to help you later 

[carpmad]

welcome to the forum pete
gunpoint ? me? never 

im sure youl get help in no time there a great bunch here

edit: its ok he wont mind that hes a member on my forum 

youl need to use your windows driver ive got the info you need on ubuntu but im on win at the mo so cant get to it

[cavpete]

lol carpmad


cheers hope they sort the problem out on the other site

[SensoVision]

welcome to our community, cavpete! It's nice to have one more Linux user on board
Sorry for not replying right away but as Andy have said we was busy with converting forum software, but it's over now.
Regarding your problem, if say truth Wi-Fi is probably the only thing I'm not worked with(just because I doesn't have wifi myself) so wouldn't be very helpful.
Carpmad told that would post solution lately, if this solution doesn't work, please let us know here and we'll try to find other solution.

[carpmad]

sorry about the slow reply pete ive only just logged into ubuntu again  ahhhh blisss 

im glad i saved this i clicked post just as my forum went down

you can use your windows drivers for it and instal them with ndiswrapper or i think the following driver is reported to work too ive copied the txt to save you trawling through 20 threads like i did to get this info so sorry if its a bit confusing


I have a UR054g(R01) v1.1 and got it working using ndiswrapper and the following driver
ftp://ftp.inexq.com/Drivers/UR054g(R01)3325.zip

heres the ndiswrapper page itl tell you what to do , i was just c&p the code and save on floppy so i can just c&p it into a terminal saves typing 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper


Forgot to mention you need to add the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
to prevent it loading the default modules ubuntu tries to use. im not sure of the command hopefully someone else can help with that it might be something like      sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist  but thats probley wrong im im pretty much guessing with verry little experience 2 wk user 
add this to the file and save

blacklist prism54
blacklist islsm
blacklist islsm_usb
blacklist islsm_device


..................................
thiese following links are for a slightly diff modem and he done it without using ndiswrapper so you can semi copy what they do , thats the way i done things just find a how2 that you can understand but instal and move the proper files

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Rt2x00drivers

Another useful site for me was:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WirelessTroubleshootingGuide

have a look alos at:

http://linux-wless.passys.nl

just ask and il see if i can help but as you know im new to this aswell

good luck

[cavpete]

right in ndiswrapper it says drivers installed hardware present
the lights on the modem
but still no connection

[Andy]

Best to ditch the modem and use broadband then it's a simple network connection.

Oops sorry, forgot, the uk is still on BT cables 

Hopefully the Linux task force get mobilized soon...

Just having fun Andy 

[cavpete]

Andyandy

i am on wireless broadband bud using wanadoo wireless adapter on a inventel ur054g wireless modem i am on 8MB package at the moment. better than 56k dial up lol.

[carpmad]

have you tried entering the command to start your modem ?
im not sure what it will be as im new myself and connect a different way to you

[cavpete]

yes i have blacklisted itc and enabled it on start

[carpmad]

im not too sure then pete sorry bud
il have another look to see if i can find anymore info on it for you

[SensoVision]

hi Cavpete, sorry for taking it so long to me to answer you, but I was pretty busy last days. Anyway today if nothing goes wrong I should be able to help you if I can. So if you don't mind I'll try to figure out what's your problem.
It seems that I'm unable to access ubuntu articles so if it's possible maybe you can save me a page and send my way?
Here is also information I'll need:
1. Can you execute following commands and print output here lsmod, lspci. Just if you don't know you can direct output from screen to file, like this lsmod > lsmod.txt this would create lsmod.txt file containing all the info.
2. Can you give exact model name of your USB device.
3. Please go to console e.g. by "CTRL+ALT+F1", insert USB and look what would appear in Model and Vendor fields.

BTW it seems that this site wasn't mentioned by Carpmad http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ but if you don't have to read it, please supply me with this info and I'll try to find a working solution for you.

[cavpete]

right the model of my wireless modem is

ur054g (r01) v1.1 made by inventel


lspci report

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0000:00:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0000:00:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
0000:00:0e.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)

lsmod report

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video                  16260  0
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floppy                 62148  0
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via_ircc               26900  0
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ir_common               9988  2 saa7134,ir_kbd_i2c
videodev                9856  2 spca5xx,saa7134
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rtc                    13492  0
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agpgart                34888  1 via_agp
b44                    25740  0
mii                     5888  1 b44
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usbcore               129668  9 ndiswrapper,spca5xx,islsm_usb,hci_usb,usblp,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
ide_cd                 33028  2
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softcursor              2304  1 bitblit

feck knows must have done something wrong bet it us starring me right in the face

cheers

[SensoVision]

thanks for info! I forgot to tell that you do this with plugged adapter? If it wasn't plugged can you plug it in and post once again output of lspci, sorry for this mess I should think about this before