Hullo,
I will try to keep this descriptive yet brief.
My first day on a Linux based system (Mandriva 2006 / 2.6.12-12mdk) - YEY!
Ok, the belkin pci card has been picked up by Mandriva itself, rt2500 driver as I understand, and works, then drops after 5 to 10 minutes, and to get the connection back on I have to manually enter network settings and select connect.
Here is the output as instructed by the newbie sticky: -
[walls@localhost home]$ cd /bin
[walls@localhost bin]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb Host Bridge (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce 250Gb PCI System Management (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK8S USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:05.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK8S Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA Controller (v2.5) (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb AGP Host to PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 250Gb PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV40.2 [GeForce 6800 LE] (rev a1)
02:07.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
02:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
[root@localhost walls]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"Wireless Walls"
Mode:Managed Frequency=11 MHz Access Point: 00:11:50:E8:67:E8
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr
ff Fragment thr
ff
Encryption key
ff
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level:-184 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
[root@localhost walls]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11
8:08:F2:66
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fe08:f266/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe000
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:2558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2558 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:150900 (147.3 KiB) TX bytes:150900 (147.3 KiB)
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:14:04:9D
inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fe14:49d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:76987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16794 errors:66 dropped:66 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:773 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:17479712 (16.6 MiB) TX bytes:2133603 (2.0 MiB)
Interrupt:201
Ok I think that should be it, incidentally when it is connected the signal indicator in network connections is always on 1 bar only, however for the period that the connection is up it runs fine.
Been here for around 5 hours so far with zero linux experience, and zero luck!
Thanks for reading (and assisting if you can)...
Walls.
