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Author Topic: [EN] (solved) Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125  (Read 4717 times)

jjjrrr3

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[EN] (solved) Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125
« on: 2012/09/15, 07:05:43 »
I'm trying to get a D-link dwa-125 wireless USB adapter to work.

As directed by the Bluewater manual, I ran fw-detect and followed the instructions to install firmware-ralink and to run modprobe multiple times.  Every time I ran modprobe, I got the same error message:
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libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-config.c:684 kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'fb'
FATAL: Module rt2800lib is in use.


Networking is not my strength, and I have no idea what to do next.  Help!

In case it helps, here is the complete fw-detect output:
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Detected driver that requires firmware to operate
-------------------------------------------------

#
# Follow these instructions to obtain the correct firmware
# and activate the rt2800lib driver:

apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-ralink
modprobe -r rt2800lib
modprobe rt2800lib

You must first configure apt to install this non-free software,
refer to the offline manual that came with this distribution.

Detected driver that requires firmware to operate
-------------------------------------------------

#
# Follow these instructions to obtain the correct firmware
# and activate the rt2800usb driver:

apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-ralink
modprobe -r rt2800usb
modprobe rt2800usb

You must first configure apt to install this non-free software,
refer to the offline manual that came with this distribution.

mylo

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Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125
« Reply #1 on: 2012/09/15, 10:55:49 »
Provide the output of

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lsmod | grep ralink


That might help someone of the experts here.

jjjrrr3

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RE: Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125
« Reply #2 on: 2012/09/15, 19:45:40 »
That produces no output.

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RE: Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125
« Reply #3 on: 2012/09/15, 20:06:14 »
Let's have a look at the file /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf -- there seems to some issue with it.
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jjjrrr3

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RE: Wireless trouble with D-link dwa-125
« Reply #4 on: 2012/09/19, 00:32:26 »
Upon opening the case, it turned out that the laptop has an internal wireless card that had been unplugged.  :-\ After fixing that, everything works fine—without needing the wireless adapter.

Thanks, everyone!