-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>> >> lsmod |grep rt2 You should see rt2500pci or possibly rt2x00pci. If >> you do not see that, then perhaps you need to do a sudo modprobe >> rt2500pci >> > $ sudo modprobe rt2500pci FATAL: Module rt2500pci not found What happens when you grep for rt module, as in my example from above. > > The driver should be in the kernel right? Why does the .26 multimedia > kernel work out of the box and .29 not? I can't find a good reason > (or the driver is not included in the kernel !??) There is an excellent reason. The WiFi stack is in a state of flux. A lot of the drivers are being rewritten (or more accurately, the work started years ago is just now starting to be realized and integrated). This is all a good thing though it does mean that there will be some problems as the new drivers are integrated and bugs are sorted out. The RaLink devices are affected (the new rt2xxpci/usb drivers which replaces the rt2500pci/usb driver) and atheros (with the ath5k drivers), and broadcomm (the least stable, due mostly to the fact that broadcomm as a company is about as brain dead as you can get). ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/* will tell you what drivers are available. Intel devices are pretty stable right now as Intel has been the doing the right thing for a couple of years. > > the .26 kernel: > > $ sudo iwconfig > > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > wmaster0 no wireless extensions. > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"*******" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 > GHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:2B:4D:87 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 > dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption > key:9798-3297-34 Link Quality=69/100 Signal level=-66 dBm Rx invalid > nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 > Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > - From this it looks like there is a wireless driver loaded, functioning, and it is connected to an access point, a Linksys wireless router by the look of it. How have you configured the wireless network? The presence of a WEP key indicates that you did some sort of configuration, what did you do? How exactly is your wireless connection not working? Is the AP using WEP or WPA to protect the wireless network (never mind that WEP provides no protection whatsoever anymore)? Do you have mac address filtering turned on? Do you have an ip address and or a route? Relevant network details can be found with these commands: sudo ip addr sudo ip route cat /etc/resolv.conf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJqezxwRXgH3rKGfMRAv9AAJ9lr8bSV3CoS4ej3v1ta29lwWRSVwCgmtp8 Oua4ISG8iVW5GI14nkcHjn8= =Xp5o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
