OneAndOneIs2

This morning, I burned a new Ubuntu install disk. Booted off it, and am currently sitting in the live environment it gives pre-install.

Plugging in the new USB Wifi dongle, I had high hopes.

Sad to say, I was let down :o(

It was found, but not working. So I checked the output of dmesg

[ 665.268244] phy2 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Current firmware does not support detected chipset.

Balls!

The solution?

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep ^rt

rt2870sta 410104 0
rt2800usb 17907 0
rt2800lib 43824 1 rt2800usb
rt2x00usb 19693 1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib 39075 3 rt2800usb,rt2800lib,rt2x00usb

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -rf rt2870sta rt2800usb rt2800lib rt2x00usb rt2x00lib

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe rt2870sta

Unload all the extra modules it had loaded that it didn't need. Reloaded the one it did. Bingo! Working wifi!

Entered the Wifi password and here I am, online from the Ubuntu live CD.

And so now, I can get on and install it.

So I'm now officially impressed with the Wifi hardware, which is a Duronic IR186 that I got from Amazon