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Old 05-16-2006, 06:22 AM   #1
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need to clear all references to wireless connections


I've been trying to get wireless 802.11g adaptors working for the past couple weeks. I am on my 2nd wireless device and have tried 3 different wireless modules which haven't worked fully or at all (tried ndiswrapper, serialmonkey, and now linuxant's driverloader). I have a wireless connection now (sit0) which doesn't do anything and may be getting in the way of driverloader to be able to fully install.

This is on an old Intel Pentium tower running Slack 10.2 on kernel 2.6.13.

ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:4C:F0:80
inet addr:192.168.1.45 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe4c:f080/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:499524 (487.8 Kb) TX bytes:137868 (134.6 Kb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2000

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:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

sit0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-31-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
NOARP MTU:1480 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

iwconfig --version
iwconfig Wireless-Tools version 27
Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v17.

Kernel Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v18.


iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

----------------------------------------

eth0 is my wired ethernet. sit0 doesn't seem to do anything.

How do I reset wireless connections so that sit0 is not present?

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Old 05-16-2006, 06:38 AM   #2
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That sit0 interface has nothing to do with your wireless problems.
Sit stands for "simple internet transition" - this interface can be used for encapsulating ipv6 network packets in ipv4 datagrams.

Now, why don't you tell us what wireless card you currently have, and what you have tried sofar?

Eric
 
Old 05-16-2006, 02:10 PM   #3
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ok-I tried a US Robotics wireless 802.11 g adaptor and now I have a Belkin F5D7050. I tried ndiswrapper with the US Robotics-that worked till I tried to use WEP with it. Since I couldn't encrypt my network and have the adaptor decrypt, I returned it and bought the Belkin. I did a make uninstall on ndiswrapper. Then I tried to install serialmonkey's rt2570. It compiled ok but came with no documentation of how to set it up. modprobe and dmesg showed no errors and lsmod showed it was loading up the rt module. iwconfig showed only that sit0 connection. iwlist sit0 scan did nothing and I could not get online with dhcpcd.

I then called Belkin tech support and they actually knew what Linux was and directed me to www.linuxant.com. That site had a nice driver installation with no errors but could not find my Belkin USB. Serialmonkey did not provide a nice make uninstall of their drivers....I deleted all files and directories having to do with ndiswrapper and rtXXXX but I think there is a file preventing the linuxant driverloader from installing properly.

So, how could I reset my tower to the pristine state of no wireless devices and start over?
 
Old 05-16-2006, 03:53 PM   #4
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I got the same card now, the F5D2500 series. It should show up as this in lspci:[code]02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)[\code]
Look at alien's rc scripts here and change the reference in rc.inet1.conf like this:
Code:
## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your configuration settings.
# (You probably will not need all of these for your own wireless network):
IFNAME[4]="ra0"
Plus change anything else needed in that section (Uncomment the lines needed)

Then 'modprobe rt2500', try a reboot.

Tell us the results.
 
Old 05-17-2006, 08:52 PM   #5
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I got the same card now, the F5D2500 series. It should show up as this in lspci:[code]02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)[\code]
Look at alien's rc scripts here and change the reference in rc.inet1.conf like this:
Code:
## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your configuration settings.
# (You probably will not need all of these for your own wireless network):
IFNAME[4]="ra0"
Plus change anything else needed in that section (Uncomment the lines needed)

Then 'modprobe rt2500', try a reboot.

Tell us the results.
My wireless adaptor is a USB that's version 3000. It shows up with lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:705a Belkin Components

How would I use the rc script-move rc.inet1.conf to /etc/rc.d? Where do I get the module for ra0-is it in the 2.6.13 kernel?
 
Old 05-17-2006, 09:59 PM   #6
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Then I tried to install serialmonkey's rt2570. It compiled ok but came with no documentation of how to set it up.
You need the rt27x0 driver from serialmonkey. The files from alien you just copy the four rc.XXX files to /etc/rc.d, mkdir /etc/rc.d/ifcfg , copy the two ifxxx.sh files to that directory, installpkg ifplugd,ifmetric,and the lib file.

if you can wait a few, I can put all the files you need in one file, and give you a link on where to get them....
 
Old 05-17-2006, 10:20 PM   #7
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Get all the files (except the driver from serialmonkey) here. It extracts to a directory called 'keeper'.

Copy all the rc.* scripts to /etc/rc.d. Make sure the rc.inet1 and rc.wireless are executable.
Copy all the *.sh scpripts to /etc/rc.d/ifcfg . Make sure both are executable.
run installpkg on the three *.tgz files
Edit rc.inet1.conf , adding in whatever you need for wlan area (here is my rc.inet1.conf file, edited)

Compile the rt27x0 driver (make, make install)

modprobe rt27??? (whatever the name of the driver), and then I'd reboot.

After the reboot, post the results of iwconfig, iwlist scan, ifconfig
 
Old 05-18-2006, 05:14 AM   #8
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I'll try this later today. The serialmonkey driver seems to be rt2750-does this sound right?

Also, I installed rt2500 and then rt2750 last week buy could not make uninstall the files. How do I remove the installed files first?
 
Old 05-18-2006, 07:29 PM   #9
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Didn't work...I just read that the ver. 3000 of the Belkin USB F5D7050 doesn't work with Linux here:

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_h...=USB&zoek=Show

I tried your method but could only find the rt2570 driver here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads

Where do I find the 2750 driver?

Compiling the rt2570 driver showed no errors. Make install ended with this and I did a modprobe:

append 'alias rausb0 rt2570' to /etc/modprobe.conf
root@LinuxHippy:/home/huntz/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module# modprobe rt2570
FATAL: Module rt2570 not found.

I think it's time to return this USB adaptor and try another.....
 
  


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