Pluscom MAC address shows up but "wireless unavailable"
- by Luigi
I've got a pluscom pci card plugged into my desktop and although the mac address shows up in network manager, it says "Wireless unavailable".
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome Shell Remix...
edgar@edgarQuantal:~$ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
edgar@edgarQuantal:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:f0:49:02:1f:b8
inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe02:1fb8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1425 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:995753 (995.7 KB) TX bytes:134079 (134.0 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:40828 (40.8 KB) TX bytes:40828 (40.8 KB)
It looks the same as the problem as here, seems quite complicated: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1993226
Tried downloading the driver but i get this:
"Unpacking firmware-ralink (from .../firmware-ralink_0.36_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/edgar/Downloads/firmware-ralink_0.36_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.95"