Lucid/Maverick: Wireless USB DLink DWA-140 does not connect

[ciaopaulo]

This wireless usb interface used to work under Karmic by blacklisting various drivers:

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
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blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist rt2800usb
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This no longer seems to work.

The network is correctly detected but it does not accept the WPA password entered, and continually spins until re-prompting to enter the password.

I tried this:

http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8893675

Basically downloading and installing the drivers from Ralink. But I got the same result.

some information that might be useful.
paul@paul-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for paul:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
       vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
       physical id: 12
       bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 51
       serial: 00:40:d0:2a:42:e5
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.105 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:10 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:f0000000-f00000ff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:26:5a:09:8c:3a
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=RTxx70 Wireless

paul@paul-laptop:~$ sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 07d1:3c09 D-Link System DWA-140 802.11n Adapter [ralink rt2870]
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

paul@paul-laptop:~$ sudo lsmod | grep rt
gameport 9089 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 5617 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 19056 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd 54148 16 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
rt2870sta 461811 1
parport_pc 25962 1
agpgart 31724 2 drm,via_agp
parport 32635 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp

Just to stress the point: This wireless device works under Karmic.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi ciaopaulo,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 573905

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[ciaopaulo (ciaopaulo)]

Is there anyway I can do that update via the web? The machine has a duff DVD drive.

[Mortenrk (mokodev)]

i had the same problem but made it work by following http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1382798 also see this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543836

[ciaopaulo (ciaopaulo)]

Look sorry guys I've rolled back to 9.10. I did an update with the daily release and it completely screwed up the network (ie no networks at all detected!) plus some iffy low level pci warnings at boot, before login. I need to be able to use this laptop, so maybe someone else can run with this. (PS I tried the method Mortenrk linked to as stated in the first post... it didn't work)

[Nick (morrownr)]

This bug is a dupe of:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/549801

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

Tested as advised by comment #6 (daily build of Sep. 24). It still doesn't work in Maverick. I'll try to collect some logs.

[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 Cannot stat file /proc/4088/fd/40: Stale NFS file handle
                      USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2612 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'I82801DBICH4'/'Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at irq 11'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
   Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 18
Card29.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 1RHT71WW-3.04'
   Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 1RHT71WW-3.04'
   Components : ''
   Controls : 2
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'Console',0
   Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Limits: Playback 0 - 14
   Mono: Playback 3 [21%] [on]
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100924)
MachineType: IBM 23734G2
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
 Socket 1:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
 Socket 1:
   3.3V 32-bit PC Card
ProcCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: Yes
StagingDrivers: rt2870sta
Tags: maverick kernel-net needs-upstream-testing staging
Title: [STAGING]
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 06/18/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1RETDRWW (3.23 )
dmi.board.name: 23734G2
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 995gz93
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1RETDRWW(3.23):bd06/18/2007:svnIBM:pn23734G2:pvrThinkPadT40:rvnIBM:rn23734G2:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 23734G2
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T40
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

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[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

Please note that I have only borrowed this DWA-140. Actually I got it to find out how to make it work. So I might not be able to test with this device in future.

[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

I just learned that there is an important difference between a DWA-140 and a DWA-140 ver. B2. The DWA-140 contains an RT2870, the DWA-140 B2 contains an RT3070.

The device I have borrowed is a B2, so the apport logs above apply to RT3070 only.

In Lucid downloading and building the RT3070 driver from Ralink solves the problem. (I have also the rt2800usb driver blacklisted, not yet double-checked whether that is required)

Maverick not yet tested.

[Bruno Bertolino (bruno-bertolino)]

Beside the blacklist, I downloaded the RT2870STA driver from RTLINK and just recompiled it.Then I reinstalled it. Everything works, but I had to make a copy of the rt2870sta.ko to the lib folder for each Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) upgrade I made otherwise the problem came back.

[Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner)]

Thanks for all your efforts. Since the driver for this hardware is a very fast moving target could you all please retest. This hardware (in both its incarnations) is now (kernel 2.6.38) _supposed_ to work with the rt2800usb module.

If you are not using kernel 2.6.38 (ubuntu 11.04) you should be able to get the same driver from the backports package, which might be named something like:
linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.38

Please upgrade your modules, test and report your results in a separate bug report reported with (terminal window command):
ubuntu-bug linux

If you have done so make a comment here with the new bug number.

Thanks

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