Getting RT2500 to work

CptnObvious999 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 292

I have a WMP54G Linksys wireless card that uses the rt2500 module to work on my AMD64 system. It worked fine until I updated my kernel (to gentoo-sources 2.6.14) and changed my configuration and install the portage ebuild of rt2500 (I before had the sources installed). I also changed some configs on my kernel i was using (2.6.12-r6) without rebooting. I don't know what happened but when I rebooted the ra0 interface (my wireless network card) hung on the dhcp request. I think it has something to do with my rt2500 driver. Although it will load when I modprobe it, the light to my card doesn't come on even when I run '/etc/init.d/net.ra0 start'. It will sometimes say it is in use when I 'lsmod' it and sometimes it won't I have tried everything I can think of and have recompiled my kernel countless times (thank god I have a fast machine). Any help is appreciatied, I don't want to have to reinstall :cry:

CptnObvious999 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 292

Is there any way to totally delete the rt2500 module from the kernel? When I make clean for the manual sources I installed and unmerge rt2500 I can still modprobe it and load it.

dsd · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject:

kernel modules are 'protected' - portage does not remove them
you can remove it manually, it will be under /lib/modules somewhere
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optiactive · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 92

This issue sounds very similar to mine. I'm installing a new machine with Gentoo, but I can't get my WUSB54G Linksys to work. Anyhow, I've tried several different things, to no avail. What do you get if you run iwconfig, with no parameters? Does your wireless device (ra0) display? What are the contents of the file /proc/net/wireless?

optiactive · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 92

For what it's worth, I finally got my card to work. The whole time I was trying to call "iwconfig wlan0" or "iwconfig ra0". It was easy to tell that ra0 didn't exist. But, I thought it should. When I ran iwconfig against wlan0, the system would freeze. Anyhow, for whatever reason, I don't think I ever tried "ifconfig wlan0". When I did that, it worked. Now I'm up and running. I don't know if this information is any help, but I thought I would throw it out there anyway.

CptnObvious999 · Apprentice Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Posts: 292

I know this is a long time from the time I started this topic. I ended up reinstalling everything again. I stupidly upgraded my kernel and installed rt2500 from portage and like last time it didn't work even on the old kernel that portages rt2500 hadn't installed on. I fixed this by emerging the new version of baselayout.