View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
rickvernam Guru
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 313
|
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
wzzrd wrote: | Yeah, 64-bit all the way. Do you have any exotic options enabled in your kernel? | Not that I'm aware of...
wzzrd wrote: | Do you have the wlan option enabled? | sure do... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
durian Guru
Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 312 Location: Margretetorp
|
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
rickvernam wrote: | and your all 64-bit?
I can't even load the module. It fails with this:
Code: | rt2500: ioremap failed for device 0000:00:05.0, region
0x0 @ 0x0 |
|
Yes, 64 bit.
When I do "dmesg" I get the following:
and "lsmod" shows:
Quote: | chaucer root # lsmod
Module Size Used by
rt2500 192968 1 |
-peter |
|
Back to top |
|
|
rickvernam Guru
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 313
|
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
|
|
just removed all rt2500 stuff that was on my system, did emerge rt2500 to get beta 2, r1 - it went fine.
modprobe loads the module without error. In /var/log/messages i get messages like so (I turned debug on):
Code: | May 22 19:19:56 ricklap ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
May 22 19:19:56 ricklap rt2500 1.1.0 BETA2 2005/02/21 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com |
iwconfig has no wireless extensions, or ra-related things at all.
lsmod has this to say:
lspci shows the card like this:
Code: | 0000:00:05.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01) |
The card is a giga-byte something or other...
Thanks for any help...
-Rick |
|
Back to top |
|
|
ColBond n00b
Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 41
|
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've also got a PCI rt2500 I'm having trouble with. I'm not actually trying to set up a wireless network, but get it to work in kismet, ethereal, airsnort, etc. I can set it into monitor mode with "iwconfig ra0 mode Monitor" but none of those applications ever see wireless networks or traffic. Out of curiosity, I tried to set it to connect to my wireless network, but I never could. Any time I thought I was doing the right thing to make it connect, it would hard lock my system. I'm running amd64, I used the rt2500 package from portage to install. If anybody has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. When I first boot up, nothing shows up in iwconfig or ifconfig. If I modprobe rt2500, it shows up in both(or I can just 'ifconfig ra0 up').
MW |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've got a rt2500 pci card (Hawkin brand) and it works great! I installed back in February but I remember having a difficult time getting it up and going.
This is what I did after googling around a bit and reading
/usr/share/doc/rt2500-version/README.gz.
1. After emerging rt2500, unpack the rt2500 gzipped tarball.
Code: | cd /root/
tar -xzvf /usr/portage/distfiles/rt2500-1.1.0-b2.tar.gz |
2. Make the config dir - Case sensitive (don't know why portage doesn't create this dir). If you already have QT installed on your system, you can emerge rt2500 with +qt in you use flags. This will create the gui RaConfig2500. RaConfig2500 can create the dir and config file, but the one in the source tarball has some helpful comments.
Code: | mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA |
3. Copy RT2500STA.dat from the Module dir to /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/
Code: | cp rt2500-1.1.0/Module/RT2500STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/ |
4. Manually edit /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat for your network
5. Add rt2500 to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6
Code: | echo "rt2500" >> /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 |
6. Edit /etc/conf.d/net, adding this to the dhcp section:
Code: | iface_ra0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_ra0="-R -N" |
-R Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/resolv.conf file.
-N Prevents dhcpcd from replacing existing /etc/ntp.conf file
If you don't use dhcp to acquire an IP address for your wireless card, you can try adding a static IP address instead.
7. Create a symlink to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 for start up:
Code: | ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.ra0 |
8. Load rt2500 module (should now show up with iwconfig)
9. Start net.ra0 (should show up with ifconfig)
Code: | /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start |
10. Add to default runlevel
Code: | rc-update add net.ra0 default |
I think that's it. Good luck! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
rawbeefman Guru
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375
|
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
Okay, I followed that bad boy step for step. I eventually ran into a problem when I started the card, I got:
Code: | upstairs ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 [ !! ]
|
I'm dying here. Thanks again for the help.
- eschmann |
|
Back to top |
|
|
genstef Retired Dev
Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 668 Location: M/Bay/Germany
|
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
rawbeefman: I think it would help for you to use ra0 instead of wlan0 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
genstef,
Turned out the rawbeefman's Hawking card had a Texas Instrument chip and not the rt2500. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
rodrigrj n00b
Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 42 Location: Clarkson University
|
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject: |
|
|
those of you that go the driver to work, which did you use and how did you get it going.
and by that i mean from start to finish, did you compile? find some binary one somewhere, then, what did you use to config it
thanks
btw, ive got a mini-pci version of the card running on my amd64 laptop. i can load the module from the ebuild
but that doesnt do anything, and i can compile anything on my own
sorry... didnt see the second page when i posted... but overkill's guide didnt help either |
|
Back to top |
|
|
genstef Retired Dev
Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 668 Location: M/Bay/Germany
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
spengy n00b
Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 14
|
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:06 am Post subject: |
|
|
I had the same problem with my ralink card and my amd64 laptop.
kernel 2.6.12 fixed it! I can use my Zonet ZEW1500. works great!
try kernel 2.6.12! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
latiffs n00b
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 11 Location: USA
|
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I have a linksys WMP54G, and i cannot get it to work. I tried everything, from ndiswrapper to the Ralink drivers. Nothing is working. Did anyone get this type of card to work with the Ralink drivers? And if so, how? _________________ A Coder is a coder because he knows what he is coding |
|
Back to top |
|
|
rawbeefman Guru
Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 375
|
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I got it up and running with the acx100 drivers, but I never got it to get an access point. Basically the WMP54G uses a different chipset in their cards. DLink installed easily and perfectly, I think that card is the best.
- Eschmann |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
latiffs wrote: | I have a linksys WMP54G, and i cannot get it to work. I tried everything, from ndiswrapper to the Ralink drivers. Nothing is working. Did anyone get this type of card to work with the Ralink drivers? And if so, how? |
Personally, I don't have one but I have heard of sucesses with this card. I believe it has to be a WMP54G "version 4" to work with the ralink driver. Check the output of the command "lspci". lspci is included in the "pciutils". If you haven't already, you'll need to install it - "emerge pciutils".
If "RaLink" appears in your lspci output, you should be able to use the ralink drivers. Getting any wireless card working in linux can be a pain, especially the first time. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Mythos l33t
Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal
|
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The only problem that i have is that rt2500 sometimes crashs specially in X and using gnome, etc.
... but if i only start pure X without gnome or kde and start play a game my kernel don't crash ...
strange problems ... _________________ Best Regards,
Sérgio Henrique
Linux dune 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Oct 27 16:47:29 WEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:04 am Post subject: |
|
|
Quote: | Linux dune 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:40:25 UTC 2005 x86_64 Mobile AMD |
SMP kernels and processors are not supported by the RT2500 driver. If you only have one processor, just recompile your kernel without SMP support and that will probably fix your issue.
HTH |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Mythos l33t
Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal
|
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Forgot that, now this seems extremely stable, now i only need wpa_supplicant support _________________ Best Regards,
Sérgio Henrique
Linux dune 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Oct 27 16:47:29 WEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
|
Back to top |
|
|
typhoonILM n00b
Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 16
|
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:31 am Post subject: |
|
|
I guess usefull to add to this thread is that if you have a USB stick then you should use the rt2570 version of the drivers. I suggest downloading the daily CVS build from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads. The reason for this being that new vendor id's usually get included progressivly. I first tried the rt2500 but failed until I figured out that more specific drivers exist. The drivers available from ralinktech, did not compile without editing in x64 compatability, and then did not include my vendor id, a GN-WBKG. They include compiling instructions and you can just follow the detailed instructions a few posts above to get them running. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Mythos wrote: | Forgot that, now this seems extremely stable, now i only need wpa_supplicant support |
Nope, you don't. rt2500 supports open, shared, WEP, WPA-TKIP and WPA-AES natively so there is no need for wpa_supplicant. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Mythos l33t
Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal
|
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
well i was thinking in mschap-v2 ???
no support right ? _________________ Best Regards,
Sérgio Henrique
Linux dune 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Oct 27 16:47:29 WEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
|
Back to top |
|
|
overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
|
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: |
|
|
Not that I'm aware of. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
jkhax0r n00b
Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 22
|
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I have a Belkin (Something or other) 54G PCMCIA card that has the rt2500 chipset as reported by others using lspci.
When I load the module after emerging rt2500, everything loads fine, iwconfig lists the new device "ra0", but I can't do anything with it.
When I set the essid it changes it but still nothing.
None of the LEDs light up and lsmod shows that the driver is not being used. A few people have reported this issue with the driver not showing up as being used... does anyone know why?
Do I need to configure it with the RaConfig utility somehow?... How do I get it to be used?
I'm not on my laptop now, but pretty sure I don't have SMP in the kernel. Also, I have tried with the pcmcia init script running and not b/c I'm not sure what it does. Same results. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
wjb l33t
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Fife, Scotland
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
|