At Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:46:24 +0100 CentOS mailing list <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote: > > I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 > > systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver > > loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the > > module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies. > > > > Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via > > Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would > > do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may > > be required. > > > > I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns > > device not found. > > > > Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created? > > > > Emmett > > Hi Emmett, > > Are you sure that's the right driver? > > My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680 > chipset. See here: > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta > > Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following > command (all one line): > > for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); > do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done > > Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with > support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the > NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services) > and let NetworkManager control the device. Another thing to check: *Most* wireless cards also need firmware, which is not always included with the drivers, due to various copyright / IP issues. Without the firmware, the driver won't fully initialize and not create the device. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / [email protected] Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
