WUSB54G WORKING! No joke, come in to find the solution... Options

[Moreno53]

Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction Flav...I followed the guide...used the Ralink Drivers with the USB Wireless Utility, it picks up my router, connects to it...it looks like everything is fine on that end....but Safari and Adium just dont connect and when I run the network setup assistant...it says it cant connect to the ISP...and then asks for a DHCP :S...I have no idea what that is, nor have I ever needed it.
In my system preferences/network it comes up as Built in ethernet with an amber light on the side. It says Built in Ethernet is active. Built-In Ethernet has a self assigned IP address and may not be able to connect to the interntet...What am I doing wrong?

[mathew_R]

Thank you realy much for this solution. It works perfect! I can't believe i have wireless internet on a homebrew mac.

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OSX 10.4.8
AMD 3000 64
160 GB sata
768 MB ram on 400 Mhz
Geforce FX5200
ASUS K8N
onboard sound works
onboard ethernet works
linksys usb wusb54g works

[ghost8888]

Working well with 10.5 leopard. Thank for the solution.

[andytof47]

Thankyou soo much it's picked up on Leopard but unfortunately the RALINK utility doesn't work with the card yet it is picked up by the system profiler and the network utility.......

I have WEP on my router which I know is useless but is there a way for me to set a WEP key through the console? (I'm new to mac so details will be needed )

Or just a straight out fix would be nice.........

cheers

[NoSmokingBandit]

Sorry for being a noob, but i have no idea how to use these Kext files. I installed 10.4.10 Kalyway and almost everything works i just need to get some internet going on. I downloaded the modified kext that someone posted but now i dont know what to do with it. Do i just put it in the System/Library/Extensions folder and run the terminal commands? Im not a complete noob to this kind of stuff (i've used linux many a time) but i just have no idea what kexts do.


Edit:
NVM, found the tut in The Genius Bar. Im off to try it out.

[NoSmokingBandit]

Ok now, new problem. Every time i reboot i have to unplug/plug in the dongle. Is there a fix for this or am i going to have to not be lazy and actually unplug/plug every time?

[Hans Engel]

Hi everyone,
I successfully installed the driver and after plugging in my WUSB54G (v4) USB WiFi adapter, I was able to configure it using Ralink's configuration tool. So currently, it is connected to my network. But Camino doesn't seem to notice that I'm connected—it can't find any servers. Whenever I attempt to open System Preferences->Network, the Preferences app crashes (this has been happening since I first installed Uphuck 10.9 on my EeePC).

Does anyone know how to allow native Mac OS X applications to access the connection? And/or how to simulate it as an AirPort connection?

[Pablo(2)]

Hans Engle,

Thanks for your input on this problem. I however have a different problem. Once I got through all of the permissions problems, and configuration changes from previous posts in this forum, I was finally successful in getting the RT2500USBWirelessDriver.kext to load. There was an earlier post to perfrom a kextload command and that is when I discovered that my permissions were not "just right".

So now in the System Preferences Network application I was able to configure the WUSB45G adapter as en1 and bingo - I was connected. But after a bit of snooping I found out that my adapter was connectiing to an open Linksys router in my area - not my router; the dhcp assigned ip addresses were not from my router.

So I launched the Ralink USBWirelessUtility to configure my adapter. The touble is that the application always displays "No Device !!!" and no matter what I try to do I can not get this application to work

I also found that there should be 4 .Plist files in my ~/Library/Preferences folder but they are not there. They are:
• ~/Library/Preferences/AdvancedProfileSetting.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/ActiveProfileSetting.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/Profile.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.Ralink.RaConfig.plist

I wonder if this could be part of my problem ?

If you have any ideas or suggestions I certainly would appreciate any input.

Many thanks,

[Whiternoise]

Hi, i downloaded Álvaro Martins kext and put it in my extensions folder, i also did the terminal stuff and rebooted.

My adaptor is viewable in system profiler as a USB device, but the ralink utility still says no device. Any idea what i should try next?

EDIT: UPDATE: OK, from a link in another thread, i've got it working ish.

It still shows as no-device, but when i plug it in and run sudo kextload (and so on) it loads the profiler. But still No Device !! showing.

FURTHER UPDATE: Reverting to an older wireless manager, it's loaded the ethernet and appears to be connected. However, it can't connect to the internet for some reason.. Thoughts?

[FatPenguin]

If it's Not loaded, type this into terminal

Sudo -s
your password
kextload /System/Library/Extensions/RT2500USBWirelessDriver.kext

Hi Kramer,

I followed your instructions and typed that in terminal, but a window popped up telling me that the extension could not be loaded.

This was done on the root account.

TIA for your help.

[FatPenguin]

Hi guys,

I have tryed to install wusb54g V4 and i did it
I followed some hints and tips in this topic (wich is a very good one ) and finally after 5 days I get it working.

The driver altered by me is atached to this post.

Ill copy here the begining of my info.plist of original rt2500usb wireless driver from manufacturer suport site.

On file info.plist I add the bold section, and save the file.


Beggining of file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>English</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>RT2500USBWirelessDriver</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.Ralink.driver.RT2500</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>KEXT</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.1.3.0</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>Lens Wang</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.1.3</string>
<key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
<dict>


<key>Wireless-G USB Network Adapter</key>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.Ralink.driver.RT2500</string>
<key>IOClass</key>
<string>RT2500USBWirelessDriver</string>
<key>IOProviderClass</key>
<string>IOUSBDevice</string>
<key>bcdDevice</key>
<integer>4</integer>
<key>idProduct</key>
<integer>13</integer>
<key>idVendor</key>
<integer>5041</integer>
</dict>


then in terminal

sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions
sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions
sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions


repair permissions

reboot


It wont fail

If anyone need some help just ask in this post

Best reg everyone, now im going to try to fix HDA sound......

Alvaro Martins

Hi Alvaro,

Did what you mentioned, and now it works!

But now there's a weird problem, everytime I boot into my admin account, I can't start the driver. Instead i have to logout and log in to 'root', manually activate the kext, then log back into my normal admin account. Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks

[yoshi_sx]

alvaro martins, what do I do with the info.plist file? do I place it somewhere or?

I am sorry for asking this newbie question as I am new to all this stuff, tried to read through the search, but could not understand the complex terms..

I would greatly appreciate your inputs!

Regards.

[yoshi_sx]

anyone kind enough to help a newbie?

[Richard NYC]

So now in the System Preferences Network application I was able to configure the WUSB45G adapter as en1 and bingo - I was connected. But after a bit of snooping I found out that my adapter was connectiing to an open Linksys router in my area - not my router; the dhcp assigned ip addresses were not from my router.

So I launched the Ralink USBWirelessUtility to configure my adapter. The touble is that the application always displays "No Device !!!" and no matter what I try to do I can not get this application to work

I also found that there should be 4 .Plist files in my ~/Library/Preferences folder but they are not there. They are:
• ~/Library/Preferences/AdvancedProfileSetting.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/ActiveProfileSetting.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/Profile.plist
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.Ralink.RaConfig.plist

Hi Pablo

Did you ever resolve this issue? I'm having the EXACT same issue. The device is conncting to the neighbors apple airport (!) rather than my local router. When I open the Ralink USBWirelessUtility it still shows no device.

I'm also missing the profile .plist files that you are mentioned in your post.

Any ideas??

Thanks

-Rich

[JoshJC]

Hi.

My solution to this is to boot up with -f. This fixes the "No Device"
I am looking for a fix so I don't need to boot up with -f

Hi Pablo

Did you ever resolve this issue? I'm having the EXACT same issue. The device is conncting to the neighbors apple airport (!) rather than my local router. When I open the Ralink USBWirelessUtility it still shows no device.

I'm also missing the profile .plist files that you are mentioned in your post.

Any ideas??

Thanks

-Rich

[shidevil]

i have the same problem as joshjc,richard and palbo. any1 got solution??? my ralink keep showing no device even after booting from -f.

i only got • ~/Library/Preferences/com.Ralink.RaConfig.plist. the other 3 is not there.

[christophski]

Heya im really baffled by this one, mainly because i have little experience with macs as probably alot of people on here do.
My WUSB54G shows up in the system profiler which im guessing is a good thing, i installed the railink utility but it says no device found.

I've been desperetly trying for days now to get this working and trawling through this thread to try and understand the solution but i just dont seem to understand it, could someone please explain to me how to get the WUSB54G working in newbie baby steps please lol bit by bit and applicatin by application

This really is starting to drive me up the wall now lol

[christophski]

After ages of trying i still dont understand how to do this, i really hate to be a pain but would someone be kind enough to write up a step by step guide for babies on how to get the WUSB54G working, or at least point me in the right direction.

[Aubron]

I also need a step-by-step, this isn't working for me.

[homestarr]

Solution to the USB Wireless Utility

Like most of you guys I got my driver working but I coudln't tell it which access point to connect to, it kept picking up unsecured ones around me. But this post: CLICK HERE by J.Sylar works COMPLETELY.

What you do is use the driver from this post but use the Belkin wireless utility - he details how you can delete the RT2500 utility and the Belkin driver to have a cleaner install. I was able to choose the correct network and enter my password details, etc.

Now, does anyone know how to make the driver work on startup and after sleep? I have to manually reconnect my wusb54g everytime!