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kamina
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 Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:22 am Post subject: wireless networking newbie problems... |
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I have a MSI MP54G2 wireless card on my laptop. The card has the Ralink RT2500 chipset, and I've installed the newest drivers and set the module to start up with linux. I'm still not quite understanding where I should go from here...
I emerged the net-wireless/wireless-config-0.5.5.ebuild drivers according to this thread, and I believe it should have gone correctly. I added iface_ra0="dhcp" to /etc/conf.d/net and the following to /etc/conf.d/wireless:
essid_ra0="homerun"
mode_ra0="Managed"
When I type "iwconfig" I get:
eth0 no wireless extensions
lo no wireless extensions
ra0 no wireless extensions
I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong or missing, but obviously it's something...  |
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kamina
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:01 am Post subject: |
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I guess the problem is not that simple then?  |
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lutkebab
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| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Maybe a dumb question, but...
have you enabled wireless support in the kernel?
Have you made a symlink net.ra0 -> net.eth0 and added it to default runlevel?
you could also try "ifconfig ra0 up" and then do a iwconfig to see if it is there. |
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kamina
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| How do you mean enable wlan from the kernel? I am using a module as there is no support for the rt2500 chipset in the kernel. (if you mean device drivers...) |
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kamina
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| How do you mean enable wlan from the kernel? I am using a module as there is no support for the rt2500 chipset in the kernel. (if you mean device drivers...) |
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gnuageux
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kamina
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: |
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Actually I found something that is probably the cause. Put a question in the other thread allready, but I might as well add it here...
| kamina wrote: | | UberLord wrote: |
Q. I'm seeing Wireless extensions not found for $interface - but it's a wireless device!
A. You need to enable wireless-extensions in your kernel.
To do this, enable the following config options in /usr/src/linux/.config | Code: | CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y |
Then recompile your kernel and modules and re-install them
If your driver is external then re-compile and re-install that.
Finally, re-emerge wireless-tools against the new kernel and driver
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I have this excact problem. I started to edit .config file, but I don't have any line for CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS in the whole file. I found CONFIG_NET_RADIO and enabled that though... Should it work like this, do I add that line in there myself (and does it matter where?), or what should I do?
I have the 2.6.7-gentoo-r11kernel. |
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MDD
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:06 am Post subject: |
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kamina...did you do a "ifconfig ra0 up" before you want to iwconfig it?
i've to do it here... |
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UberLord
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MDD
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| UberLord wrote: | | MDD wrote: | kamina...did you do a "ifconfig ra0 up" before you want to iwconfig it?
i've to do it here... |
My script does do this - which he has indicated he is using |
Yep, it does.
But he has activated dhcp, so the interface comes up, after he got an ip, i think. I've emerged your script, too, and i got the same problems.
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* Running preup function
* Wireless extensions not found for ra0
* Bringing ra0 up via DHCP... [ !! ]
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But if i do an ifconfig ra0 up before:
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* Running preup function
* Configuring wireless network for ra0
* Connecting to "any" (WEP Disabled)... [ ok ]
* ra0 connected as "" in auto mode
* on channel 1 (WEP disabled)
* Bringing ra0 up via DHCP... [ !! ]
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I dont have any accesspoint here at the moment, so the dhcp will fail of course, but this doesnt change the problem i think.
iwconfig only works here when the interface was brought up first. Dont know if this is specific to the ralink device (i think he uses it, as of the name "ra0").
Can you change your skript to bring the interface up first (with no ip, dhcp,...) then do the iwconfig stuff, and after that search for an dhcpd?
Would be great... |
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Mythos
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| Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: help i am stuk in wireless |
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Hi there, i have a msi mp54g2, but i have a problem i use amd64, i want to knoe if there are any support for my cpu, and what tools i have to use ? wireless-config does not exists in portage ...
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 0
1)
0000:00:0c.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference C
ard (rev 01)
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