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rosscharben
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 Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject: rt2500 can't get an IP address [solved] |
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I have just bought a pro-star 4764 AMD64 notebook which apparently is the same as the Clevo D470K. The Wireless card seems to be a Ralink rt2500. | Code: | AMD64 ross # lspci -v | grep Network
0000:00:05.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
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I emerged the rt2500 driver and | Code: | AMD64 ross # modprobe rt2500
AMD64 ross # lsmod
Module Size Used by
rt2500 191208 0
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then I added | Code: | config_ra0=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_ra0="-t 10"
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to /etc/conf.d/net and create the symlink | Code: | ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.ra0
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then after which I can see | Code: | AMD64 ross # lsmod
Module Size Used by
rt2500 191208 1
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and | Code: | AMD64 ross # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:32:B0:9A
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:f5ff:fe32:b09a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23871 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11347807 (10.8 Mb) TX bytes:3298279 (3.1 Mb)
Interrupt:201 Base address:0x2800
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:212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6316 (6.1 Kb) TX bytes:6316 (6.1 Kb)
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:16:E0:0C
inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fe16:e00c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5287 (5.1 Kb)
Interrupt:177 Base address:0x4000
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and also | Code: | AMD64 ross # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"NETGEAR"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency=2.437 GHz Cell: 00:09:5B:FA:9F:AC
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thr=2312 B Fragment thr=2312 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=76/100 Signal level=-34 dBm Noise level:-192 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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However, | Code: | AMD64 ross # /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start
* Starting ra0
* Configuring wireless network for ra0
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on ra0
* Failed to configure wireless for ra0 |
What's going on??? |
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rosscharben
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I had the router set to limiting access to specific mac addresses DOH!!!! |
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rickvernam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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wondering, did you get the card reader or the camera to work? I have the same laptop. Never did get wireless, camera or card reader working, although I never tried the camera or the card reader.
Bty, I noticed you got your rt2500 working...wondering if you using all 64-bit & SMP (for hyperthreading)? |
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rosscharben
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| rickvernam wrote: | wondering, did you get the card reader or the camera to work? I have the same laptop. Never did get wireless, camera or card reader working, although I never tried the camera or the card reader.
Bty, I noticed you got your rt2500 working...wondering if you using all 64-bit & SMP (for hyperthreading)? |
Well as you can imagine, I just bought this beast and immediately installed Gentoo on it  Wireless was the first thing I've tried to get working along with a useable desktop. I'll move onto the card reader and camera just as soon as I've found the time to get accelerated graphics working.
I am using 64-bit but NO SMP...
Before I embark on this journey has anyone else got this machine and got these things working??? |
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rickvernam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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I have accelerated graphics. Hmm...wishing I remembered what I did to get it though...
I really am drawing a blank right now. but I am testament that it is possible 
I'll be watching for questions I can answer...
Just curious at the moment, not really concerned enough to take the time to do the research...but how does not having SMP affect overall performance? I know that having SMP is the only thing preventing me from using my rt2500 wireless card...
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okay, here is the first place I went for the graphics stuff:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301437-highlight-amd64+atidrivers.html |
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rosscharben
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| rickvernam wrote: |
Just curious at the moment, not really concerned enough to take the time to do the research...but how does not having SMP affect overall performance? I know that having SMP is the only thing preventing me from using my rt2500 wireless card... |
Maybe someone else can answer this, I really don't know!!
Thanks I'll be giving that a shot tonight |
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