Thread: Wireless adapter crawling - ideas? new to ubuntu

so new ubuntu , installed on both laptop , desktop. laptop worked great , able connect router. desktop connects router via wirelesss adapter (rosewill rnx-n1 http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82e16833166025)

firefox wont finish loading first start.ubuntu landing page. in fact wont finish loading www.google.com either. status bar on bottom right 90% done never finishes.

here steps took trouble shoot:

1) ran lsusb

desktop:~$ lsusb
bus 002 device 001: id 1d6b:0001 linux foundation 1.1 root hub
bus 003 device 001: id 1d6b:0001 linux foundation 1.1 root hub
bus 004 device 001: id 1d6b:0001 linux foundation 1.1 root hub
bus 005 device 001: id 1d6b:0001 linux foundation 1.1 root hub
bus 001 device 002: id 148f:2870 ralink technology, corp.
bus 001 device 001: id 1d6b:0002 linux foundation 2.0 root hub

2) ran iwconfig

desktop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 ieee 802.11bgn essid:"<mysid>"
mode:managed frequency:2.422 ghz access point: 00:0c:xx:d3:xx:96
bit rate=48 mb/s tx-power=8 dbm
retry long limit:7 rts thr:off fragment thr:off
power management:on
link quality=70/70 signal level=34 dbm
rx invalid nwid:0 rx invalid crypt:0 rx invalid frag:0
tx excessive retries:0 invalid misc:0 missed beacon:0


3) ran ifconfig

desktop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 link encap:ethernet hwaddr 00:14:85:12:97:3b
broadcast running multicast mtu:1500 metric:1
rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)
interrupt:20

lo link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 scope:host
loopback running mtu:16436 metric:1
rx packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
rx bytes:240 (240.0 b) tx bytes:240 (240.0 b)

wlan0 link encap:ethernet hwaddr 00:02:6f:68:xx:ba
inet addr:192.168.1.101 bcast:192.168.1.255 mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2xx:6fff:fe68:xxba/64 scope:link
broadcast running multicast mtu:1500 metric:1
rx packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes:68896 (68.8 kb) tx bytes:18511 (18.5 kb)

wmaster0 link encap:unspec hwaddr 00-02-6f-68-xx-ba-36-38-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
running mtu:0 metric:1
rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b)

4) went network tools , did ping on www.yahoo.com

got 5 of 5 transmitted , received.
min: 22.80 ms
average: 265.63 ms
max: 1228.00 ms
packet 3 took longest

laptop faster , not have n card.

5) restarted , made sure adapter working in windows 7.

thoughts appreciated

how letting see, in terminal:

code:

lsmod | grep rt2

thanks.

ps - ralink night? didn't memo!

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