having wireless USB adaptor troubles on Ubuntu

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CrazYmonkeY159

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Hi all i got a couple of questions i am a Linux noob

I have Windows 7 (originally) and I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 today (on a seperate partition)

Im having trouble with my wireless USB adaptor, linux picks it up as wlan1 but i cant connect to any networks. The wireless USB adaptor's brand is IPTime by zioncom (WL0149 model to be exact). Ive tried searching for Linux drivers but nothing came up

Also problem #2 I dont know how to set my GNU Grub bootloader to list W7 as my default OS (at least as the first highlighted OS) because i will most likely use W7 more than Ubuntu for now at least.

Can anyone help??
 
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I can't even reach their website, it seems like this company (ZionCom) either went bust or have some serious server issues.

Give us the output of:
lspci
 
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crazymonkey@crazymonkeydesktop:~$
lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev
02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev
02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IB (ICH9) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev
02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GTX] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 AHCI Controller (rev 03)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 AHCI Controller (rev 03)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link
Layer Controller (rev c0)
 
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CrazYmonkeY159 said:
Im having trouble with my wireless USB adaptor, linux picks it up as wlan1 but i cant connect to any networks. The wireless USB adaptor's brand is IPTime by zioncom (WL0149 model to be exact). Ive tried searching for Linux drivers but nothing came up
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The wireless chipset used is the important part.

From console/cli type in: lsusb -v

Post the part of the output pertaining to the wireless lan card here so we can see what chipset it uses.



CrazYmonkeY159 said:
Also problem #2 I dont know how to set my GNU Grub bootloader to list W7 as my default OS (at least as the first highlighted OS) because i will most likely use W7 more than Ubuntu for now at least.
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You have to edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to select the default OS.

In the menu.lst file you will see all the entries for the bootable OS's
Code: 
# general configuration:
timeout   5
[B]default   0[/B]
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

#[B] (0)[/B] Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26
root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/172104d8-64a7-49cf-8f25-98e398e6249c ro vga=791
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/172104d8-64a7-49cf-8f25-98e398e6249c ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# [B](2)[/B] Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

What you can do is change the default 0 to a 2 which will make windows the default booting OS. You could also move the config around a bit so windows is first in the list (0) and leave it at default 0
 
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lspci -v gives output for PCI attached devices and not usb devices. Use lsusb -v instead.
 
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This is very strange, from your pastebin output it seems like you have only two devices connected to USB, unless I'm missing something, a mouse and a Verbatim storage device? I cannot seem to find anything in there on your wifi adaptor.
Give us also the normal output, lsusb without the -v just to make sure I'm not missing something.
 
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MyWorld said:
This is very strange, from your pastebin output it seems like you have only two devices connected to USB, unless I'm missing something, a mouse and a Verbatim storage device? I cannot seem to find anything in there on your wifi adaptor.
Give us also the normal output, lsusb without the -v just to make sure I'm not missing something.
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Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 18a5:0214
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 12cf:0308
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.

Device Descriptor:

bLength 18

bDescriptorType 1

bcdUSB 2.00

bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)

bDeviceSubClass 0

bDeviceProtocol 0

bMaxPacketSize0 64

idVendor 0x148f Ralink Technology, Corp.

idProduct 0x3070

bcdDevice 1.01

iManufacturer 1 Ralink

iProduct 2 802.11 n WLAN

iSerial 3 1.0

bNumConfigurations 1

Configuration Descriptor:

bLength 9

bDescriptorType 2

wTotalLength 67

bNumInterfaces 1

bConfigurationValue 1

iConfiguration 0

bmAttributes 0x80

(Bus Powered)

MaxPower 450mA

Interface Descriptor:

bLength 9

bDescriptorType 4

bInterfaceNumber 0

bAlternateSetting 0

bNumEndpoints 7

bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class

bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass

bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol

iInterface 5 1.0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x03 EP 3 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x05 EP 5 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Endpoint Descriptor:

bLength 7

bDescriptorType 5

bEndpointAddress 0x06 EP 6 OUT

bmAttributes 2

Transfer Type Bulk

Synch Type None

Usage Type Data

wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes

bInterval 0

Device Qualifier (for other device speed):

bLength 10

bDescriptorType 6

bcdUSB 2.00

bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)

bDeviceSubClass 0

bDeviceProtocol 0

bMaxPacketSize0 64

bNumConfigurations 1

Device Status: 0x0000

(Bus Powered)




That Ralink Device is definately my Wireless Adaptor, its the chipset of my Wireless USB dongle
 
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CrazYmonkeY159 said:
Also problem #2 I dont know how to set my GNU Grub bootloader to list W7 as my default OS (at least as the first highlighted OS) because i will most likely use W7 more than Ubuntu for now at least.

Can anyone help??
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Fire up Synaptic package manager and download and install a prog called start-up manager, you can set the default OS in there.
 
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