EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems[SOLVED]

[Zymus]

Ok, so I bought the EDIMAX EW-7128G Network card, because a friend of mine suggested it for linux. Now, to my understanding, the RT2500 chipset has been supported for a while now. However, I can't get it to connect to my LInksys router. I'm running 64-bit Jaunty.

This is my output from lshw:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:1f:1f:49:d7:59
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless

lspci output shows that it's there:
05:00.0 0280: 1814:0301

I've put in the right SSID, and password, but nothing is working.

[lmilano]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

Mmm, weird. All the latest reviews in newegg say that it works out of the box in Ubuntu Jaunty (and Hardy).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...eywords=ubuntu

Is this a fresh install or an upgrade? I am asking because on my eeepc I had a lot of pain with wireless in Jaunty, until I realized that the module I had to use was blacklisted from an older install (8.04).

Have you tried this in a cafe, or some place where you can use an open network wifi?

Another thing to try (since everyone mentions support out of the box) would be to boot off the live cd and see if it works there. If it does, try "lsmod" in a konsole and see what module it is using, this will help us ...

Hope this helps!

[Zymus]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

Fresh install. Ordered the Free CD of Jaunty, upgraded to 64=bit today. Didn't work before I upgraded. I'll try Booting from the LIVE CD and seeing if it works.

EDIT; I booted from the cd, but still no luck. here's what I have for lsmod:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod
Module         Size Used by
lp           17156 0   
bridge         56340 0   
stp          10500 1 bridge
bnep          20224 2    
video         25360 0    
output         11008 1 video 
input_polldev     11912 0    
snd_pcm_oss      46336 0    
arc4          9856 2    
snd_mixer_oss     22656 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_intel     435636 3      
ecb          10752 2      
snd_pcm        82948 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy     10756 0             
snd_seq_oss      37760 0             
rt61pci        29572 0             
snd_seq_midi      14336 0             
crc_itu_t       10112 1 rt61pci         
rt2x00pci       15616 1 rt61pci         
snd_rawmidi      29696 1 snd_seq_midi       
rt2x00lib       37888 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci    
snd_seq_midi_event   15104 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi 
snd_seq        56880 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
led_class       12036 1 rt2x00lib
snd_timer       29704 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
mac80211       217208 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
snd_seq_device     14988 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ppdev         15620 0
cfg80211        38032 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
snd          62628 15 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
iTCO_wdt        19108 0
pcspkr         10496 0
parport_pc       40100 1
soundcore       15200 1 snd
iTCO_vendor_support  11652 1 iTCO_wdt
eeprom_93cx6      10240 1 rt61pci
parport        42220 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
snd_page_alloc     16904 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp       34108 0
agpgart        42696 1 intel_agp
squashfs        46344 1
aufs         165924 1
exportfs        12544 1 aufs
nls_cp437       13696 1
isofs         39844 1
usbhid         42336 0
r8169         40836 0
mii          13312 1 r8169
floppy         64324 0
fbcon         46112 0
tileblit        10752 1 fbcon
font          16384 1 fbcon
bitblit        13824 1 fbcon
softcursor       9984 1 bitblit
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[lmilano]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

I googled for mac80211, and found this
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/develo...c80211_drivers
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers

Can you see if this brings things up?

sudo modprobe rt2500pci

(This is working OTB for most people, but there maybe something in your hardware preventing the proper module from loading??)

[Zymus]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

I tried

sudo modprobe rt2500pci

both plugged and unplugged, nothing showed up on either.

[Zymus]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

Ok, I fixed it. I had to click on the network manager and then do join hidden network(my dad is a bit paranoid), and it worked ^_^

[lmilano]

Re: EDIMAX EW-7128G Problems

Great. Can you mark the thread as [SOLVED]? You need to edit the title of the original post.

If on your next reboot you can't connect to the hidden network, you'll need to add the module to /etc/modules so that you don't need to always start it manually (but I doubt it, since thei card works out of the box)