Ralink RT2860 device doesn't work

leifmusik · 10-16-2008, 06:00 PM

Hi.

Since a few days I've been trying to get the Ralink Rt2860 device - installed in my laptop - working. I am using a "linux from the scratch"-like 64bit-multilib system, running kernel 2.6.23.13.

I chose the driver (version 1.8.0.0) available from the Ralink-Website (w ww.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html)

Follwing the instructions coming along with the driver I first had a look a the Makefile in the root directory which - in my opinion - doesn't need to be modified. Then I edited the file os/linux/config.mk regarding WPA_SUPPLICANT, so that these lines look like this now:

Quote:

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y

Quote:

HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n

To compile the driver I did a simple

Quote:

make

Just as suggested by Ralink I generated a RT2860STA.dat file, located in /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA.

The next step I did was to load the driver:

Quote:

insmod ./rt2860sta.ko

A quick look at the output of 'lsmod' shows me that the driver seems to be loaded correctly.

Just until this point everything seems to work fine, but performing the next step in Ralinks instructions fails.
You should bring up the card using the command:

Quote:

ifconfig ra0 inet 192.168.200.200 up

'ifconfig' doesn't do anything and all I get is this error message:

Quote:

ifconfig: only one address allowed for interface 'ra0'

Why does 'ifconfig' say there's already an address defined for ra0? I definitely didn't do so.

This is what 'ifconfig ra0' says:

Quote:

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500
txqueuelen:1000

And this doesn't look as if there is already an address specified for 'ra0'. Another strange thing I recognize here is the MAC-address, 00:00:00:00:00:00 looks a bit unusual, doesn't it?

So what am I doing wrong?

Perhaps the output of 'iwconfig ra0' might give you some additional information:

Quote:

ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-143 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

As you can see none of the things specified by my RT2860STA.dat file were set, so the driver seems to ignore it. Or will these information be added after the device is brought up using 'ifconfig'?

And settings can't even be done manually using 'iwconfig'. All the program says is:

Quote:

SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.

If you need any additional information to help me, just let me know.

Thanks in advance
leifmusik

leifmusik · 10-17-2008, 01:38 PM

The following Configuration did the job:

1. No configuration using /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat, wpa_supplicant will do that
2. Ralink-driver, version 1.8.0.0, the only file to be modified is "config.mk"

Quote:

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

3. /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (works - like this - of course only for me)

Quote:

network={
ssid="3210 Phone WLAN SL"
scan_ssid=1
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk="xxxxxxxx"
}

If you have that, the following actions have to be performed to get a connection to the Internet:

1. modprobe rt2860sta
2. wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ira0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
3. ifconfig ra0 IP_ADDRESS
4. route add default gw ROUTER_IP_ADDRESS

Maybe this can help someone.
leifmusik

ralfs · 11-14-2008, 10:20 AM

You can connect by hand:

iwconfig ra0 essid MySSID
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPA2PSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=AES
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=MyWPAkey

Or put in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless

r.

k_v · 03-11-2009, 11:19 PM

Could you please post the wpa_supplicant .config file to build the supplicant?

Thanks

leifmusik · 03-15-2009, 08:59 AM

Which file are you concretely thinking about? (I posted my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf as you can see above)

k_v · 03-15-2009, 01:03 PM

I'm looking for the .config file that you'd have to have in order to compile the wpa_supplicant software

i am mainly interested in driver_wext.c which would have the required modifications needed
to make the supplicant work with this rt2860 driver. As every driver is unique, i appreciate
the .config file and the driver_wext.c

Thanks for the wpa_supplicant.conf that the supplicant uses to connect with the radius server.

Ven

leifmusik · 03-16-2009, 02:22 AM

Hi Ven

I'm just not at home where I could double-check my false pretences

, but the notes on my laptop say I'm using the following .config-file with wpa_supplicant 0.5.10:

Code:

CONFIG_DRIVER_WEXT=y
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXTENSION=y
CONFIG_IEEE8021X_EAPOL=y
CONFIG_EAP_MD5=y
CONFIG_EAP_MSCHAPV2=y
CONFIG_EAP_TLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_PEAP=y
CONFIG_EAP_TTLS=y
CONFIG_EAP_GTC=y
CONFIG_EAP_OTP=y
CONFIG_EAP_SIM=y
CONFIG_EAP_AKA=y
CONFIG_EAP_PSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_SAKE=y
CONFIG_EAP_GPSK=y
CONFIG_EAP_PAX=y
CONFIG_EAP_LEAP=y

Hope this works for you, too.

Leif

k_v · 03-17-2009, 06:19 PM

Thanks. That's exaclty what i was looking for..

royor · 07-12-2009, 03:36 PM

I have upgraded from fc7 to f11.

In fc7, I had compiled the rt2860 driver from the open source tarball I downloaded from ralinktech.com.

I compiled it for use with -Dwext :

HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y

which worked very well. I was able to associate with
my AP without problems.

Now that I have migrated to FC11, which comes with
rt2860 driver support, I am not able to associate
with the AP.

I tried to config the ra0 interface to be
managed by NetworkManager (which is in itself problematic),
and I tried to config ra0 without NetworkManager.

In both cases, restarting wpa_supplicant.

I am not able to associate with the AP.

PS: I am using the same wpa_supplicant.conf
and sysconfig/wpa_supplicant files
which were used in FC7 where they worked so well.

Does ANYONE in this forum have rt2860 working in FC11??

If so, please PLEASE reply with a list
of all the relevant rpms you had to install to make it work, and with the contents of your

wpa_supplicant.conf
(be sure to erase your key when you post it here), and the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/wpa-supplicant and
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ra0

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Royor

royor · 07-12-2009, 03:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leifmusik

Hi.

Since a few days I've been trying to get the Ralink Rt2860 device - installed in my laptop - working. I am using a "linux from the scratch"-like 64bit-multilib system, running kernel 2.6.23.13.

I chose the driver (version 1.8.0.0) available from the Ralink-Website (w ww.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html)

Follwing the instructions coming along with the driver I first had a look a the Makefile in the root directory which - in my opinion - doesn't need to be modified. Then I edited the file os/linux/config.mk regarding WPA_SUPPLICANT, so that these lines look like this now:

To compile the driver I did a simple

Just as suggested by Ralink I generated a RT2860STA.dat file, located in /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA.

The next step I did was to load the driver:

A quick look at the output of 'lsmod' shows me that the driver seems to be loaded correctly.

Just until this point everything seems to work fine, but performing the next step in Ralinks instructions fails.
You should bring up the card using the command:

'ifconfig' doesn't do anything and all I get is this error message:

Why does 'ifconfig' say there's already an address defined for ra0? I definitely didn't do so.

This is what 'ifconfig ra0' says:

And this doesn't look as if there is already an address specified for 'ra0'. Another strange thing I recognize here is the MAC-address, 00:00:00:00:00:00 looks a bit unusual, doesn't it?

So what am I doing wrong?

Perhaps the output of 'iwconfig ra0' might give you some additional information:

As you can see none of the things specified by my RT2860STA.dat file were set, so the driver seems to ignore it. Or will these information be added after the device is brought up using 'ifconfig'?

And settings can't even be done manually using 'iwconfig'. All the program says is:

If you need any additional information to help me, just let me know.

Thanks in advance
leifmusik

From all the replies you have received, have you been able to make it work???
I have not been able to make it work in FC11.

Royor

technowar · 08-06-2009, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leifmusik

3. /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (works - like this - of course only for me)

Sir, how do you run it? I have extracted the file in my desktop. Uhm am I doing the wrong thing?

ralfs · 11-27-2009, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by royor

From all the replies you have received, have you been able to make it work???
I have not been able to make it work in FC11.

Royor

In Fedora 11 I just:
make
make install
and change values in /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat

but now in Fedora 12 I cannot make that module

I hope that in kernel v2.6.32 should be included rt2860sta module...

ralfs · 12-28-2009, 04:21 PM

Fedora 12

From RPMFusion repo install rt2860:
yum -y install rt2860

Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
INTERFACES="-ira0"

Run:
chkconfig wpa_supplicant on

Reboot...

All works fine