RaLink RT2561/RT61.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Btw. if your're interested in a rt2400 rt61 CVS ebuild:

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Did you setup /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat properly (SSID, Channel, EncryptType, WPAPSK, AUTHMODE)? Got

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

How do I view the syslog?

Is there a wireless tool I can use which can show me the signal strength graphically?

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

syslog -> /var/log/messages

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

cold_water · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 4:03 am Post subject:

Here is my 2 cents...

I was waiting for the driver for a while. Last month neither of the drivers worked on my SMP: ALL drivers were hanging my machine literally. ALL OF THEM: Serialmonkey (both legacy and non-legacy from CVS), RaLink driver 1.0.4, Gentoo driver 1.0.4...

I took my version 1.1.0.0 from RaLink and it works! If you a DIY guy then just run "make" in the "Module" directory...
Following are the steps how you can manually check if it works. Note: I shut down my eth0 since it is connected to the same router (temporary while I was waiting for a working driver), hence same network.

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

OMG it WORKS! Thanks to the information from cold_water and micmac.

I'm pretty excited that I've got a connection, but, it's not secure. I had to turn off encryption to get it to work. If I enable 64bit encryption again it can't see the router. I'm running 64bit encryption. Open system. No paraphrase. All machines can connect using the same WEP key. The router only allows certain mac addresses to connect though.

Here's my info:

cold_water · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:29 am Post subject:

Two thumbs up, man! :-)

All you need in /etc/Wrireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat is:

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

I just tried that. But it seems no matter what I do it won't work with encryption enabled.

Are you using 64bit encryption cold_water?

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

cold_water · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:14 am Post subject: No 64-bit encryption here...

justincataldo,

Nop, my P4-Northwood/2.8-hyper/2GB/RAID0 is an oldie 32-bit Intel...

I just looked at my Linksys router settings: sec.mode: WPA2 Personal, algorithm: TKIP+AES (but I can select AES only if I wish)...

What mode/algorithm selection do you have in your router?

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

So then what do I need to put in the file?

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

Oh wow! IT WORKS! Thanks sooo much!

Took me a while to figure it out. It just wouldn't connect. The problem? My housemate had a WAP set up which wasn't actually talking to the network. So the card was trying to connect to that all the time. I turned it off, and then the card could only see the encrypted network and it connected. Magic.

Thanks again! I hope this thread helps other people.

meranto · Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject:

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

Up and running here with now with an rt61 card (Linksys WMP54G) after upgrading my motherboard to one that supports PCI v2.2 cards. Using WPAPSK/TKIP - I might try WPA2PSK/AES later, but at least I know it works now.
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democles · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Belgium

Hello,

I got my syslink (WMP54G rev 4.1) working (with encryption) but when the throughput increases (emerge --sync), my AMD64 hangs... I'm using the cvs version of the serialmonkey RT61 driver/kernel 2.6.19-r2. I wonder I others have the same problems with this card.

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

democles · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 17 Location: Belgium

Hi agent_jdh,

I started with the ralink-rt61 package and because of the problems I encountered, I tried some other packages... a few attempts later I've got my system working

. No hangups any more

I'm using the rt2x00 package from portage (masked version 9999, the 2.0.0-beta3 gave some problems) now together with wpa_supplicant.

Some info for those who might have the same problems
lspci:
01:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI (a syslink WMP54G rev 4.1)

snippet from /etc/conf.d/net:

config_wlan0=("dhcp")
route_wlan0=("default via 192.168.1.1") //my AP, a linksys WRT54G
modules=("wpa_supplicant")

snippet from /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
ssid="thorsheaven"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
psk=my key generated with wpa_passphrase included in wpa_supplicant package
priority=2
}

emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8
Last Sync: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache: 2.3
dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en_UK nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.10/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol arts bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack jpeg kde kernel_linux linguas_en_UK linguas_nl lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pda pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia xinerama xorg xpm xv zlib"
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

To build the package I disabled SMP, PREEMPT,ieee802.11 stack in the kernel (2.6.19-r2)
finally i put the firmware ( rt2561.bin,downloaded from ralinktech.com) in /lib/firmware.

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

@ democles

That's good info then for anyone else that has problems with the ralink-rt61 driver. You might want to look at configuring /etc/conf.d/net to switch your MTU to 1300 as that is what the rt61 cards use (the OP has info on how to do this). I checked the MTU on a WinXP box running the same Linksys card as mine and the MTU is definitely 1300 for it.
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