SOLVED - Wireless not working

[slk230]

I upgraded to 10.10 and discovered that my RaLink wirless connection was no longer working.
Using information located on this site, I removed all the network-manager applications as I use WICD.
Still no joy. ifconfig didn't show any wireless connections and WICD also showed no wireless networks.
If I used ifconfig -a then the wireless connections showed up.

Trying sudo ifconfig wlan0 up returned

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy.

I then checked the bug lists (launchpad-594866) and see that I am not the only person with a RaLink 2860
that is having this problem.

I tried one of the suggestions of editing the blacklist.conf file and now I have my wireless back. Yea.

Navigate to /etc/modeprobe.d/blacklist.conf. Edit the file as root and add the following lines:

blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib

Save the file.
I rebooted and my wireless works again.

[GreyGeek]

Re: SOLVED - Wireless not working

Good work! 8)