rt2500 on slackware 12
Hi,
I use a slackware 12 machine as a firewall/gateway connecting to a wireless network and sharing internet connection. I use a pci Linksys wifi card with Ralink rt2500 chipset. When the machine boots, connects to the access point but after a while I get a link quality 0/100 and the card becomes inactive (the green light on the back of the card goes off as well). I can scan using iwlist for available networks but all having a link quality 0/100 and ping reply gives “network unreachable”. When I unload the kernel module which loaded at boot time (modprobe –r rt2500) and then run the connection script again everything works fine! ##connection script (rc.local) ifconfig ra0 up sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 essid tsiou sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 mode Managed sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 channel auto sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 rate auto sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 txpower auto sleep 2 iwconfig ra0 key ************************** sleep 2 dhcpcd ra0 I tried both 2.6.21.5 and 2.6.23.12 kernels and all the rt2500 drivers (stable and cvs) from serialmonkey and I still got the same issue. It seems like a problem on module loading or something….i think…I also added /sbin/modprobe rt2500 in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules but nothing changed….after a while the connection goes of….then unloaded the module and run the script again and everything works as a charm….. Can anybody help me pls? |
Just a thought...it could be the kernel source. I had problems getting
a wireless module to work correctly with Debian. After downloading the source code from kernel.org and compiling a new kernel with the same configuration, the module worked correctly. |
problem rt2500 slackware 12
Hi at all. I'm new in Slackware world. I have always used Ubuntu and now I decide to switch to slackware 12.
I have a problem, and I hope I am in the right place to resolve it. I installed slack 12 in a old laptop (kernel huge.s), and I want to use a PCMCIA wireless card with chipset rt2500 Ralink. I try to download and install the driver on the seamonkey project. All was perfect: # make # make install give me no errors, but when I try the command # modprobe rt2500 I obtain that no Module is not found. I check if the kernel source has been installed, and it's ok; but launching command # lsmod I obtain that rt2500 is not installed (it isn't list in the output). I don't know what I have to do... Has someone have any ideas? Should I recompile kernel or something other? Thank you in advance... |
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