RaLink RT2561/RT61.

[justincataldo]

Yeah, mine is doing the same (randomly dropping the connection) using the ralink-rt61 drivers. It's weird. Even when the machine is only 2m from the wireless modem!

[Pluvius]

All,

I followed the instructions here but still have to start my eth.ra0 manually each time. It won't come up automaticallt on start-up. I have it loaded in rc-update to start at boot but I don't see it during the init scripts (displayed during start-up). I've disabled net.eth0 in coldplug and updated /etc/conf.d/net.conf and /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat as indicated in the posts here with my ESSID, TKIP, and key.

Here is a snippet of my /etc/conf.d/net file

config_ra0=( "dhcp" )
# dhcp_ra0="nodns nontp nonis"
# essid_ra0="westonlan"
# mode_ra0="managed"
# channel_ra0="9"
# key_westonlan="ebe3-a27b-5fb9-1d38-f50d-0b06-f4"
postup() {
if [ ra0 == ${IFACE} ]; then
ifconfig ra0 mtu 1300
fi
}
modules=( "!iwconfig" "!wpa_supplicant" )

I tried entering the AP info here, but it didn't work

I've removed the rt61 module from kernel-2-6, assuming you didn't want it loaded, but I expect that the module is getting loaded automatically.

I know I'm close, but I can't see what I am mising.Any suggestions?

Pluvius

[Pluvius]

Sorry,

A little more info... I used the ralink-rt61 build and have a Linksys WMP54G wireless card. I'm using WEP encryption with an open authentication. I have to use iwconfig commands to manually load ESSID, and key each time I start-up. Once I do, I get excellent throughput on the wireless link. It appears that the wireless card is not being activated at start-up and not reading the /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat file at all.

Regards,
Pluvius

[kdvgent]

I also tried to configure my router with WPA-PSK. No problem with various Windows PCs with wireless connection. No problem with HP OfficeJet that is wireless, nor with Slimserver (sound streaming device), also wireless.

But my PC with a RT61 wireless card (that was working for weeks OK with an open router) refuses to work. Modified the rt61sta.dat file as indicated, modified the /etc/conf.d/net as indicated, tried without DHCP (no success).

Re-emerge the modules, tried everything again. Nothing.

Put the router back without protection and rebooted the PC (after having updated rt61sta.dat again). Now the PC hangs during the booting process ("running dhcpcd" on the problematic interface). I am completely stuck.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

[Heinzelmännchen]

How are the settings for Ad-Hoc mode? Gives a Manual für the rt61sta.dat and there vars?
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[kdvgent]

I continued to struggle with this yesterday.

My final conclusions:

• I got everything working (as described in the various HOWTO-s in the Gentoo Wiki), but only if I switch off MAC filtering on my Linksys WRT300N router. When MAC filtering is on, either the PC does not get an IP address (time-out) or the machine just hangs on the DHCP request.
  
• The Ralink-RT61 driver seems to have problems handling short interruptions of the connection (like restarting the router after having updated some parameters). There were a number of cases where the computer just hanged and a hard reboot was the only way to get out.
  

So in short - it now works, be it without MAC filtering (but with WPA-PSK)

[forkboy]

Thanks, kdvgent I finally got my card working with WPA by disabling MAC filtering. Its been bugging me for ages I never thought of trying that.

[Heinzelmännchen]

hi... web encryption works in ad-hoc mode, but WPANONE doesn't.

here are my settings:

[m707]

[kdvgent]

Today I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.20-r4.

When afterwards I try to emerge my network card driver again, the emerge failed. The correct kernel version is detected but then I get a weird error message, saying that a 2.6.20-r2 related directory does not exist (while it still exists on my machine).

Anybody any idea what went wrong?

The emerge log:

[Corpse Fiend]

Please post

[MixedSoul]

I'm using rt61sta.dat to configure ralink, how can configure more than one network in this file?
How do i connect to a WPA network with authentication and a certificate?

thx in advance!

[random-feed]

I am using iwconfig/iwpriv commands to set up the wireless interface, and it works just fine in Adhoc mode with net-wireless/rt61-1.1.0_beta2. However, when I try to add it to a bridge, I'm getting tons of duplicate packets. No loops on the network, and STP is on, but still... please see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-561261.html and let me know if there's anything that can be done.

Thanks.
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[gerardo]

This is what I get when I emerge net-wireless/rt61-1.1.0_beta2 on a Intel Core 2 Duo with amd64-profile with a Edimax EW-7128g (RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI chipset)

[MixedSoul]

I'm trying to patch wpa_supplicant with the instructions that came with ralink-rt61 driver and i'm getting undefined reference to...
well.. to just about everything
LoL

Could anyone write the exact steps to patch wpa_supplicant so it supports ralinks driver, please?!
I really need this so i can connect to the campus wireless, which uses WPA-PEAP!

[MixedSoul]

Ok... a managed to compile successfully using wpa_supplicant-0.6.0, the only thing i did was changing the .config by adding CONFIG_DRIVER_RALINK=y
then:

[MixedSoul]

Ok, a managed to build wpa_supplicant with support for ralink by adding

[faugusztin]

Hi,
i just bought a D-Link DWL-G510 (rev. C2) and it looks like i did a mistake by buying it. I tried all possible drivers (net-wireless/rt61, net-wireless/ralink-rt61, net-wireless/rt2x00-git), but i'm unable to switch it to master mode to act as access point. Even worse, with all except ralink-rt61 it didn't returned anything with "iwlist wlan0 channel" command (it said 0 channels).

Is this a hardware limitation ? If yes, then what PCI card should i buy for acting as a AP (i need to have it in my PC, i don't want to have external router) ?
Or how else should i connect 2 PC's (a media PC which should act as AP) and a notebook (which should act as a client).

Thanks.

[micmac]

@faugusztin: There's a little shimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, meaning that a working version of rt2x00 probably makes it into the official kernel tree not too far into the future.

For now I have switched to ndiswrapper to get my rt61 cards going. All the other possible drivers are way too unreliable for my taste. Maybe ndiswrapper works for you, too. I don't know if ndiswrapper can make the device act as an AP, though (never tried).

mic

P.S.: I have an Conceptronic C54Ri card running with ndiswrapper-1.46. It's very reliable using the latest WHQL driver from Conceptronic. I'm even using kernel 2.6.21 with the NO_HZ stuff.

[username234]

[jakob-andreas]

good evening together,
i bought a wlan-card with the ralink chipset rt61. its a longshine lcs-8031m. with the rt61-driver in portage i can create a connection to my router, but only unencrypted. when im trying to use wpapsk with tkip i get no connection. i think my psk is wrong because i only know the ascii word. i told rt61sta.dat to use the passphrase i also gave the router - and nothing happens. so i tried to translate the ascii to hex, with the same result. can anybody tell me what im doing wrong?
my /etc/conf.d/net:

[username234]

I've never used WPA encryption (some of my wireless devices don't support it), but looking over the drivers, it looks like might need the wpa_supplicant module.

So, if you want to experiment....

in /etc/conf.d/net change the line:

[jakob-andreas]

i did what you said and this is the result:

[username234]

okay, so that didn't work.

If you want you can go ahead and change the line in /etc/conf.d/net back to what it was.

Also, if you want to remove wpa_supplicant use the the command
emerge -C net-wireless/wpa_supplicant.

You could also try the hex version of your pass phrase (your router should have it listed somewhere, Windows might have it listed too, but it's much harder to get at.)

and if all else fails:
you can install the ndiswrapper and the the Windows version of the drivers, and run your card that way.

[jakob-andreas]

ok, i tryed to install wpa_supplicant with a ralink-driver. i patched the version wpa_supplicant-0.5.4 with the ralink-driver, booted my system and afterwards i started wpa_supplicant: