rt2500 driver included ?

dukeinlondon · 03-17-2005, 04:55 AM

Hi,

Just a quick question.

If you have a minute, can you type as route :

modprobe -v rt2500

If the module is present, then can you let me know the output of

uname -a

I am thinking of changing distro and I am wondering whether one out there would support my card out of the box...

david_ross · 03-20-2005, 09:33 AM

I know my slack version doesn't because I've just set that card up recently. If you are having problems with the rt driver then try using ndiswrapper 1.0 with a vanila 2.6 kernel. it worked for me.

dukeinlondon · 03-21-2005, 02:23 PM

It's all sorted and it works really well with native driver (although not the one provided by ralink).

david_ross · 03-21-2005, 02:26 PM

Just out of interest - which one did you try with? The one I got from:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/

Didn't work. Admitedly I never tried many versions though.

dukeinlondon · 03-21-2005, 02:47 PM

That's the one I use. I took a CVS snapshot of the rt2500 which compiled without a glitch and loaded without anymore problem. The only hard thing was setting up the rest, well, until I found the right howto for debian.

david_ross · 03-21-2005, 03:14 PM

I might give the snapshot a go if I get time. Not sure why the stable one didn't work, just didn't pick up an AP.

E@zyVG · 03-29-2005, 05:11 AM

Has anyone setup there Wi-Fi on linux as Access Point.

I got WiFi which was supplied with my Asus A8V Deluxe mobo. It is a Rt2500 PCI based card.
I have successfully installed it and it is working. The problem is how to set it up as Access Point, so I will be able to use internet on my notebook, which is running WinXP, through my Linux desktop. I have a LAN connection to my ISP, and need to setup WiFi basically as a router for my notebook.

On WinXP, which is also installed on my desktop PC, the Asus soft takes care of everything, and once my notebook is connected to desktop, DHCP assings an IP to my notebook.

Have installed the latest kdenetworks3-wireless and wireless-tools.

Here is a basic scheme:

Notebook -> DLink PCMCIA 108.11g ---> (Desktop) Asus RT2500 WiFi (ra0) -> Ethernet (eth0) ---> Internet

Quote:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:0F

9:16
inet addr:194.154.85.200 Bcast:194.154.85.223 Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe0f:d916/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1362744 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:113877727 (108.6 Mb) TX bytes:1637885 (1.5 Mb)
Interrupt:177 Memory:fb800000-0

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:330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:330 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:21516 (21.0 Kb) TX bytes:21516 (21.0 Kb)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:10:84:E2
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe10:84e2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:246344 errors:626 dropped:626 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:172 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:9936286 (9.4 Mb)
Interrupt:169 Base address:0x8000

a64extreme-vg:/home/vg # iwconfig

Quote:

lo no wireless extensions.

ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"a64extreme.linux"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key

ff
Link Quality:40 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Hope you got my point on what I am looking for. So, how do I go from here?

E@zyVG · 03-29-2005, 05:12 AM

I have tried Master Mode (AP in Linux), too.
It is that, only in Managed Mode does my notebook sees my desktop wifi.
Also in Ad-Hoc Mode it doesn't, and it runs at only 11Mbps.

In Managed mode, the notebook, once connected to my desktop WiFi, instead of being assigned 192.168.x.x IP, the 169.254.x.x is assigned. It seems as if DHCP is not assigning an IP to notebook, for which I have allocated IP address of 192.168.0.100-192.168.0.102, when setting up DHCP server on suse box.

I tried manually to assign 192.168.0.100 to my notebook WiFi and also turned firewall off, on both systems, and still no luck.

Something just doesn't seem to work !!!