On Mon, November 12, 2007 9:04 am, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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
Still haven't done any of this, but I noticed that there is another Installfest this Saturday. Now that the machine is in Fedora 8 (which has drivers and firmware installed in place), how 'bout I bring it back in and let youse guys play with it? I'll learn something, and you can directly share my pain. A win-win. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
