[Victorc]

Hi XBMC users,

I have an XBMC pc in my living room and enjoy it every day. It is upgrade to the new Frodo and my compliments to the team!

To also enjoy my movies/series from my bed, I installed a second pc with XBMCBuntu. Installation went ok.
As the PC hasn't a wireless network adaptor I bought a WIFI USB adaptor from sitecom. Model Type: N300.

Im not well known within Linux. Due to this, Im stucked as my Wireless connection is not working.
I configured my wireless connection in the xbmc desktop environment. But, it is not working.
After searching on internet, I think I miss the right driver. But I am not sure.

If I enter the comment lsusb I get back: 0df6:006c Sitecom Europe B.V.

The comment iwconfig shows:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extentions.

As I am not well known in Linux, I dont know how to install the right driver. Can someone tell me how to fix this?

Many thanks!
Regards,
Victor

[nickr]

Well for a start you will be disappointed by media PC over wireless (OK so some people have it lucky, but generally it is a poor experience).

That device seems to use the rt2800usb kernel module. Try the following:

Code:

modprobe rt2800usb
dmesg

the bottom of the dmesg output should say something about loading the module. Report back what it says.

[Victorc]

Mmm, I hope you are wrong. ;-) We will give it a try.

After entering the code I get back a lot of output, but these are the last lines:

Code:

usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb

It seems like the command was working ok. What should I do now?

Thanks,
Victor

[nickr]

ifconfig -a will give a list of network adaptors.

[Victorc]

When I do that, I see two items:
- eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00......
- lo Link encap:local loopback


The eth0 is the wired network adaptor and I don't thin the lo is my wireless adaptor.
Is this correct and is my wireless card missing?

Regards,
Victor

[nickr]

no lo is the standard loopback device.

There should be a wlan0 or similar if the module install worked. Try giving me a few more lines of dmesg. In fact reboot then do

sudo dmesg -c (this will clear the kernel ringbuffer)
sudo modprobe rt2800usb
dmesg

now you will get the entire consequence of installing the rt2800usb module as the output of dmesg (because you cleared it first) - so post the lot.

[Victorc]

I entered the commands and this is the output of dmesg:

Code:

xbmc@XBMC-Client:~$ sudo dmesg -c
xbmc@XBMC-Client:~$ sudo modprobe rt2800usb
xbmc@XBMC-Client:~$ dmesg
[  247.676074] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[  247.795462] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[  247.795469] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gai                                                                                                                      n, max_eirp)
[  247.795472] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20                                                                                                                      00 mBm)
[  247.795476] cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20                                                                                                                      00 mBm)
[  247.795479] cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20                                                                                                                      00 mBm)
[  247.795482] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20                                                                                                                      00 mBm)
[  247.795485] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20                                                                                                                      00 mBm)
[  247.826562] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2800usb

[Victorc]

Someone knows how to solve this?
Thanks!

[artrafael]

This is more a Linux support issue for this WiFi adapter than it is XBMC related, so you may have better luck checking/asking over on the Ubuntu forums (XBMCbuntu is based on Ubuntu). Doesn't hurt to cast a wider net.