Linksys WUSB54GC -rt73usb- card not working after dist-upgrade

[akegameesou]

As any other week I do the following once a month. apt-get update and dist-upgrade.

After my last dist-upgrade my wireless card stopped working. I can not use it in Gerix.

I scratch my head a while. I even reinstalled BT4F fresh checked the card worked then proceeded to do apt-get update and dist-upgrade.

Here is what dist-upgrade applied.

Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openvas-libnasl openvas-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alien bison cmake debhelper doxygen dvipdfmx firmware-ar9170 firmware-b43
firmware-ipw firmware-iwlwifi html2text libappconfig-perl libbeecrypt6
libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libclass-base-perl
libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-makemethods-perl libdate-calc-perl
libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgnutls-dev libgraph-perl libgraphviz-perl
libheap-perl libio-stringy-perl libipc-run-perl libipc-shareable-perl
libjcode-pm-perl libkpathsea4 liblog-dispatch-perl liblog-log4perl-perl
libneon27 libole-storage-lite-perl libparams-validate-perl
libparse-recdescent-perl librpm4.4 libsmi2-common libsmi2ldbl
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl
libsql-translator-perl libtasn1-3-dev libtemplate-perl libunicode-map-perl
libxml-writer-perl linux-headers linux-headers-2.6.34 linux-image-2.6.34
linux-source-2.6.34 lmodern openvas-administrator openvas-cli
openvas-manager openvas-scanner rpm sqlfairy tex-common texlive-base
texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-common texlive-doc-base
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc uuid-dev xmltoman
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-image linux-source openvas-client openvas-libraries openvas-menu
wireshark wireshark-common
7 upgraded, 66 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 197MB of archives.
After this operation, 1601MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

dmesg

padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::radio
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::assoc
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::quality
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
rt73usb 1-7:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
rt73usb 1-7:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
device mon0 entered promiscuous mode

Kernel:
Linux bt 2.6.30.9 #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 21:51:08 EST 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I am using a DELL 6400 which is old but use this card for packet injection to study pentest.

Can anyone help in getting my card working again. I have searched the forums but did not find anything related to my situation.

[Archangel-Amael]

Probably not a bug.
Thread moved.
If someone else can verify that this is indeed a bug we can move it back.

[TAPE]

Well I can confirm that the WUSB54GC does not work as it used to under the previous BT4.
(same reported in the thread for the R1 release)

On release of the new version, still an issue using the rt73usb drivers for the WUSB54GC,
reportedly one should use the rt73 drivers, instead, however same do not seem to be
included in the standard way.

I would say it is a bug / driver issue with the new kernel.

Page 3, my post --
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forum...release-3.html

[bestia]

Hi

had the same issue as above with my WUSB54GC after updating

dmesg showed firmware was not working

copied rt73.bin from /lib/firmware-2.6.30.9/ to /lib/firmware-2.6.34

ie cp /lib/firmware-2.6.30.9/rt73.bin /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin


unplugged and replugged in WUSB54GC

and all seems to be working

root@bt:~# airmon-ng start wlan0


Found 2 processes that could cause trouble.
If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after
a short period of time, you may want to kill (some of) them!

PID Name
5089 dhclient3
5283 dhclient3
Process with PID 5283 (dhclient3) is running on interface wlan0


Interface Chipset Driver

wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy0]
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)

root@bt:~# aireplay-ng -9 mon0
15:23:52 Trying broadcast probe requests...
15:23:52 Injection is working!
15:23:54 Found 1 AP

15:23:54 Trying directed probe requests...
15:23:54 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx - channel: 1 - 'SSID' ( replaced mac with xx's)
15:23:54 Ping (min/avg/max): 1.574ms/4.286ms/9.763ms Power: -60.73
15:23:54 30/30: 100%

[TAPE]

Thanks yours, I did see your previous post mentioning this, however since it got removed, I figured
the info was not to the mods liking..

Seems strange that any action should be required at all really.

[bestia]

No problems , Not sure why previous post was removed, Did above work for you ?

[akegameesou]

bestia,

I did what you mentioned and it did not resolve the issue.

cp /lib/firmware-2.6.30.9/rt73.bin /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin

What I did see is the physical file was not in those directories and the OS did not complain about the file not there during the copy.

I did a 'ls -l' on the directories and the file rt73.bin was not there.

After doing a locate rt73.bin located in the older kernel directory, but after diung the updatedb the rt73.bin was no where to be found on the drive.

Let me know your thoughts.

[unamed]

thx i will wait for the fix.
bye

[lizdainis]

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copied rt73.bin to /lib/firmware-2.6.34/rt73.bin rebooted and worked for me

[creepykrawler]

I confirmed that my HWUG1 ( rt73usb driver ) did not function anymore after a

apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

Kernel: 2.6.30.9
I performed lizdainis' step and the adapter now works as it used to prior to update. Note: I copied it to the firmware-2.6.30.9 directory. So, the apt-get dist-upgrade not alone broke this driver but the update/upgrade does. Thanks!!!