Cannot connect to internet leoxsys LEO NANO 150N wireless usb adapter even after
going through all the steps of topic 11154 on my linux mint 16 (petra) desktop.
The vendor ID 148f is MediaTek and 7601 is productID. Is there a linux driver for 7601
that can be compiled and integrated in the system?
The relevant outputs are listed below.
Ralink wireless driver 148f:7601 (for wireless adapters with the Ralink MT7601U chipset)
Make sure you have an active internet connection (connect to your router by an ethernet cable if you need to), then open a terminal and run these commands in sequence:
I tried to set up a wireless network connection from menu->preferences->network connections and entered connection name, SSID of my Belkin router,
mode infrastructure, router mac address for BSSID, and USB mac address for device mac address. In the router I added usb mac address in wireless access
control list and in wlan section of lan interface. With that set up I tried to connect to internet after disconnecting the wired connection. I could not connect to internet.
What am I doing wrong?
inxi -n
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:20:ed:ff:ff:ff
Card-2: Ralink driver: rt2870
IF: ra0 state: down mac: 12:34:56:00:09:43
After executing ifup -a,
inxi -n
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:20:ed:ff:ff:ff
Card-2: Ralink driver: rt2870
IF: ra0 state: down mac: 12:34:56:00:09:43
ra0 state remains down.
ravi@earth ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
When I disconnected the wired Ethernet connection and I tried to switch on wireless connection
the connection name HOME appeared. Trying to turn that on repeatedly kept asking for password
authentication but never established connection. I deleted that connection. Rebooted the system.
Created a new connection with mode Ad-hoc.
ravi@earth ~ $ sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/WiFi1
[sudo] password for ravi:
[connection]
id=WiFi1
uuid=70f89d0d-4558-4133-b5a4-a8e8fa12105e
type=802-11-wireless
Now clicking on the network icon at bottom right, disonnecting wired connection and clicking on
wireless shows unavailable and automatically creates a connection “Auto HOME” and goes into
authentication loop endlessly generating additional “Auto HOME” connections.
I am frustrated and ready to give up. Anyway, it is 11:30 and I feel sleepy. Will resume tomorrow.
Yes, I have set router to not broadcast SSID and I have also entered LEO NANO
ethernet address in wireless access control list and in the WLAN section of the LAN
interface.
After reading your comment I changed the Belkin router configuration to default
configuration and that created a wireless connection “Auto belkin.06C” listed below.
No, I cannot even ping 192.168.2.1 the IP address of my Belkin router with the connection wifi1, a hidden network, listed below.
I probably need to do something in ipv4 setting but don’t know what. It has only one entry method “Automatic DHCP”
For now disable mac address filtering and unhide the network SSID in your router … you can enable them again later, but for now it’s complicating things, I want to see if the network adapter/drivers are actually working properly or not.
In network manager delete any wireless connections.
click the networkmanager icon in your system tray … is your network listed ?
if so, click on it to connect … enter your Mint password and wireless key … did it connect ?
Sorry for the delay. I was visiting my sister in Mumbai. Now I am back to U.S. I hope my registration will be forever.
I will ask my niece-in-law who is unfamiliar with linux but well-versed in windows to make changes to configuration
that you will recommend.
After I set the router to default configuration I got connected to the router but not to the internet. Here is what I got.
ravi@earth ~ $ sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/b
[sudo] password for ravi:
[connection]
id=Auto belkin.06C
uuid=8ca4e7bd-088c-4c51-8aac-4add9bbe5a2e
type=802-11-wireless
ravi@earth ~ $ ping -c5 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=30 time=1.56 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=30 time=1.37 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=30 time=1.41 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=30 time=1.53 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=30 time=1.50 ms
— 192.168.2.1 ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.376/1.478/1.567/0.080 ms
Networking screen for belkin.06C shows
belkin.06C
Connected
Hardware Assress 12:34:56:00:09:43
Security WPA, WPA2
Strength Excellent
Link Speed 54 Mb/s
IP Address 192.168.2.2
Default Route 192.168.2.1
DNS 192.168.2.1
DNS address above is that of the router. The network connection has no routing information added.
