Friday, May 20, 2016

11.04 - Can't enable Ralink RT2561/RT61 wireless card

I have been reading various other posts on the matter but none of the solutions are working so I thought I might as well ask.


Just installed Ubuntu Server 11.04 on my old Dell Optiplex 330. It has a wireless PCI card installed that I bought for it's compatibility with Ubuntu 10. It was working on Ubuntu 10 prior to the new install.


After the install there were no lights on the card and I can not use it.


When running;
sudo lshw -C network


the device is listed but labelled Disabled.


The card is a Ralink corp, RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI


This is a headless install so command line help only please.


Thanks in advance!


sudo lshw -C network



*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5787 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1d:09:1e:89:5f
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.119 duplex=full firmware=5787-v3.23 ip=192.168.0.9 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:44 memory:dcff0000-dcffffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:03:02.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:1f:1f:8f:eb:e6
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=64 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:18 memory:dcef8000-dcefffff

iwconfig



lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

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