RALink RT3090 wireless card refuses to do anything I tell it to do!
I bought a new netbook a few days ago. Its great, I love it. Its an MSI Wind U135 (TW), it came with Windows 7 Starter (which is crap). I installed XUbuntu Lucid on it immediately, uninstalled XFCE and installed Enlightenment R17, now it looks beautiful. I got the webcam working after only a few tries, but now I am having wireless troubles.
I did some research and found out that my wireless card is the RAlink RT3090 (MS-6891). First thing I tried was ndiswrapper (easiest thing I could think of, since I had the windows drivers). The wireless card came up, looked like it was working, I could scan and see all the wireless networks that were in range, but as soon as I try to connect to any wireless network (and I mean any), it fails to DHCP. So, I checked out RAlink's website, saw that they have a linux driver, so I was like "Yay!", but I can't get it to work. I uninstalled the ndiswrapper driver, and built the linux driver from RAlink, but insmod refused to load it. Eventually, I gave up and rebuilt my kernel, it looked like there was a driver for that card already in the kernel, so I enabled it when I rebuilt, but it didn't work (was marked [EXPERIMENTAL]). So in my new kernel, I rebuilt the RAlink driver and after some tinkering, got insmod to load the new module that I built from the RAlink source code. So I got my hopes up once again. This time my device came up as ra0 instead of wlan0, but whatever. iwconfig recognizes it as a wireless device, and iwlist can use it to scan for wireless networks. However, wicd does not acknowledge the existence of ra0. It will not scan for networks, let alone connect to one. So I tried to do it manually with iwconfig. but when I run: Code:
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid "default" How can I make this work? |
Ok, the problem with wicd was a simple one, I just went to preferences and changed the setting from wlan0 to ra0.
But it is still failing on the "Obtaining IP address" step. Command line tools still give me the same problems. sudo iwlist ra0 scan: Gives me a valid list of all the wireless APs near me. sudo iwconfig ra0 essid <essid>: seems to have no effect. (no output) sudo iwconfig ra0 mode managed: seems to have no effect. (no output) sudo iwconfig ra0 commit: Fails. says "operation not supported". |
Ok, this seems weird to me.
I still had network manager installed from xubuntu, it just wasn't running. So I started it up via the command line: Code:
nm-applet & So, two more questions, 1. how do I get network-manager to show up in my Enlightenment System Tray? 2. Why the hell don't iwconfig and wicd work but network-manager does? Thank you |
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Just to clarify. Easiest way to get file is to use netpkg, aptitude or something like that to install rt2860-firmware-26-fw-1.txz. If you webget use the site is http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
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