On Mon, November 12, 2007 9:04 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> First, thank you Jim, Gus, and Carl (and Robert for moral support) for >> the >> help yesterday on this. I'm still stuck, but I feel smarter. >> >> Here's where I am. I reinstalled the machine w/ Fedora 8. The wireless >> still doesn't work. Jim and I established at the installfest to our own >> satisfaction that the machine's card is OK. We concluded that there was >> a >> probable version incompatability between the kernel and the card module >> as >> it was installed on Saturday. >> >> I went to F8 following Gus's advice that it has much better wireless >> support. I now believe he's right. I suspect I'm stuck right now in a >> configuration ignorance. Presumably, F8 is all compatable already. >> >> The machine is a "Great Quality NX-L515." That they have to call >> themselves "Great Quality" should concern us all. >> >> F8 is installed. /lib/firmware has all the correct rt*.bin files, so >> that >> much looks healthy. >> >> I am attaching a long text file with the results of every command I >> could >> think of that might help the knowledgable. I stand ready to run other >> commands that you send to me. With any kind of luck, we can lick this >> thing over the list. However, if it takes it, I can bag it up and travel >> to someone's home for hands-on troubleshooting. Let's consider that a >> last >> resort. >> >> <grin> I'm over here asking for a digital barn raising. How did people >> live before mailing lists? (I can answer that -- in isolation.) > > How did wlan0 get its ip address? Did you statically assign it or does > it get it through dhcp? If the ip address is statically assigned, the > module will still show it's up even if it did not initialize properly. > Sometimes the dhclient will reuse an old lease also. > > Even though the module loads it may still not be loading the firmware > properly. The first step is to properly identify the card, despite what > the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf says. Run lspci -v and see what it says for > the wireless card and make sure it matches. > > Next boot the computer into single mode. Once there, check if the > rt61pci module gets loaded. It probably will because of udev. If that is > the case, you must blacklist the module. Edit the file > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the rt61pci module to the list. Reboot > into single mode and check again to make sure is does not load. If the > module is not loaded, load it using modprobe and see if it gives you any > error messages. You also need to look in dmesg to see if there were any > problems. Unfortunately, Red Hat didn't compile the module with debug > support which could have helped. > > Finally, where did you get the firmware files for the card? My default > install of Fedora 8 does NOT have the firmware for the rt61pci card. > Using "modinfo rt61pci" shows that you should have three firmware files: > rt2661.bin, rt2561s.bin and rt2561.bin. The rt2x00 wiki says to get the > firmware from the RaLink site <http://www.ralinktech.com> or from the MS > Windows driver disk shipped with the machine. > > More info is found on the rt2x00 wiki > <http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rt2x00_README> > > Gus
Thanks, Gus. I may have time tonight. BTW, watching the Chargers did NOT lift my depression. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
