RaLink RT2561/RT61.

keet · Guru Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 574

Ah, I finally got my card working!! I'm so happy! Ah, I can finally move my computer back downstairs now that I have wifi working. I followed another guide which instructed me to copy my firmware files to some RT61STA directory, but that didn't work. I kept getting the error "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory". I've been reading forums all over the place and trying to configure ebuilds that I found on bugzilla to no avail, but finally I read what the previous poster wrote and copied my firmware files to /lib/firmware and it works!! I'm so happy. Thank you.

krovisser · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:35 am Post subject:

Pandaxiongmao's post helped me out! I'm using kernel 2.6.27, and I just built the drivers in the kernel, and emerge wpa_supplicant and linked wlan0 to net.lo, and tried to start it. I was getting errors about firmware in dmesg, and the "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory", like people here had previously mentioned.

All I did was copy the .bin files to /lib/firmware (which I had to create), and restarted net.wlan0 and it worked! Using wpa-personal on my linksys wrt54g.

This is using a Rosewill RNX-300xx pci card.

Dr. Frankenbox · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:52 am Post subject:

I have followed all of these directions, and I'm still getting the SIOCSIFFLAGS errors accompanied by the kernel messages about firmware. I get the same result with a Rosewill card (RT2561T) and a Linksys WMP54G (also an RT61 of some kind). I have the following firmware files in /lib/firmware:

rt2561.bin
rt2561s.bin
rt2661.bin

Edit: I just checked my kernel messages again and discovered this:

firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin

which raises the question: why can't my driver find a file that I have in /lib/firmware?

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

Thanks to pandaxiongmao for the info on setting up the kernel driver - have just moved from the ralink-rt61 ebuild. Only change was the pairwise and group settings in wpa_supplicant.conf were CCMP for me here.

@Dr. Frankenbox - emerge rt61-firmware installs the firmware files for you.
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n1ghtsn1p3r · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2009 Posts: 16

I got mine working also (Edimax EW-7128G). I copied the firmware files over manually (didn't have a net connection so I couldn't do it through emerge)

But mine is still open, but I'm not too worried about it though since the houses are pretty far apart where I am. My EW-7128G picks up a few networks around me [both under Windows and Linux], but my WG311v3 only gets mine and one other that's too weak to connect to anyway [only under Windows].
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Dr. Frankenbox · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

agent_jdh: I already tried that, and it failed miserably. See here.

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

Dr. Frankenbox · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:00 am Post subject:

I'm sorry I didn't read your post closely enough. That ebuild must be pretty new, because I had to update my portage tree before I even saw it. Anyway, I did install it, but I'm still seeing the exact same behavior. That doesn't surprise me too much since I already did manually pretty much exactly what this ebuild does automatically. I already went to the manufacturer's website, downloaded the firmware zip file, and extracted it to /lib/firmware, which is how I got the three files I mentioned above. The question still remains: why can't the driver find these files even though they are exactly where it should be looking?

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1783 Location: Scotland

@Dr. Frankenbox

PM me or pastebin your kernel config and I'll compare it to mine. Also your /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file (minus your key, obv.)
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reesm · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 39 Location: AB, Canada

Just got this working. Was really easy actually. Using a Gigabyte rt61 based wifi desktop card.

1) Used directions @ http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RT61 to recompile kernel
2) Noticed firmware was missing and found this thread
3) added "net-wireless/rt61-firmware" to /etc/portage/package.keywords
4) emerged rt61-firmware
5) issued /etc/init.d/wlan0 start
Everything is good, no more missing firmware from dmesg!

Dr. Frankenbox, what are the permissions on the files set to?

Dr. Frankenbox · Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

My permissions are exactly as shown on those three files. I'm trying to configure hostapd now; agent_jdh tells me that (or wpa_supplicant) is required even if you don't use encryption. I'm not sure if I have it configured correctly, but now that I have it installed, I'm at least getting an [OK] from the interface init script. I'm not sure the interface is actually coming up, though; the kernel errors about the firmware are still there, and I can't do an iwlist scan.

Part of the problem here is that this card doesn't support master mode, but I'm trying to make a wireless router with it. My only hope for that is if there's some way to use it in ad-hoc mode. I was trying to just test it in managed mode without encryption to see if I could get the card to work, but apparently that's not an option.

Edit: Here are some of my config files. Does anybody here know hostapd?

/etc/conf.d/net
Code: