Gutsy broke my wireless

Hasty upgrade

So I hastily upgraded my Feisty installation to Gutsy. I had no reason to do so other than to be up to date.

My wireless device is a Linksys Wireless-G USB thingy. It was working great under Feisty. Thankfully I had a backup 64-bit Feisty installation on a separate partition that I could use to research the fix.

The answer for me was to download the CVS snapshot of the rt2570 module I was using. Gutsy thought it best that I use rt2500USB. The rt2500USB module was sneakily allowing me to scan wireless networks, but not connect to them (hence many people's complaints that the wireless encryption times out).

So, after a simple untarring and reading of the INSTALL document, I was set. In simple terms:

wget http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2570-cvs-daily.tar.gz
tar -zxf rt2570-cvs-daily.tar.gz
cd rt2570-cvs-2007102720/Module
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rt2570

Then edit /etc/network/interfaces. I needed the following (key and essid changed):

iface rausb0 inet dhcp
wireless-key 354398734589
wireless-essid HWAERAAWREAW

Then bring up the interface and you should be set!

sudo ifup rausb0

Hope someone finds this useful. I was getting tired of rebooting to try stuff...

Comments

Mike. on Wednesday 6th February 12:24 AM: “It worked! I tried for days to get my Linksys WUSB45G wireless to work with Gutsy and of all the on-line "how too's" available for this problem this is the only one that worked for me.”; (Mike. thought this page was excellent)
Andrew on Saturday 16th February 12:16 AM: “Glad to hear it. It's weird that the normal driver doesn't work. Hopefully the Ubuntu people will take notice.”; (Andrew thought this page was excellent)

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