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Will Briggs wrote: |
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> Daniele Salatti wrote: |
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>> Ok, I have been on rt2570 producer website (serialmonkey), I have |
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>> downloaded the source code, compiled it, installed and modprobed. I have |
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>> rebooted the machine and now iwconfig show: |
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>> lo no wireless extensions. |
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>> |
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>> sit0 no wireless extensions. |
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>> |
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>> eth0 no wireless extensions. |
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>> |
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>> rausb0 RT2500USB WLAN ESSID:"SNROUTNG01" |
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>> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated |
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>> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off |
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>> Encryption key:5361-6C61-7474-694E-4554-0000-00 Security |
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>> mode:open |
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>> Link Quality=88/100 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-201 dBm |
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>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 |
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>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 |
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>> After "ifconfig rausb0 up", ifconfig show: |
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>> base sale # ifconfig |
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>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:02:0A:F5 |
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>> inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 |
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>> inet6 addr: fe80::202:44ff:fe02:af5/64 Scope:Link |
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>> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 |
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>> RX packets:735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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>> TX packets:823 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 |
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>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 |
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>> RX bytes:454222 (443.5 Kb) TX bytes:127911 (124.9 Kb) |
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>> Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000 |
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>> |
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>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback |
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>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 |
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>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host |
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>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 |
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>> RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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>> TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 |
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>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 |
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>> RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b) |
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>> |
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>> rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:F2:7C:07:6F |
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>> inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fe7c:76f/64 Scope:Link |
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>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 |
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>> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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>> TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 |
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>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 |
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>> RX bytes:7277 (7.1 Kb) TX bytes:1918 (1.8 Kb) |
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>> |
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>> The problem is that I can't get the USB dongle connected... I have tried |
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>> with the commands on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500, but I can't |
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>> get it working... |
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>> Daniele |
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> G'day again Daniele, |
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> This is great - it looks like the module, on the face of it, is working |
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> and it looks like you've probably got your SSID and encryption keys set |
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> etc. A good place to look to check what you've done is |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup. |
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> Personally I've gone with wpa_supplicant to handle my connection. |
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> I would hazard a guess that if you did "ifconfig rausb0 <ip address>" |
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> you would almost be in business at this point. Ideally you would want |
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> this to dhcp up. I do that with wpa_supplicant and ifplugd controlling |
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> my network interfaces (including the wireless) which is nice for |
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> laptops. ifplugd starts /etc/net.eth* when it detects a link is up in |
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> which case it then looks to my /etc/conf.d/net which says (eth1 is my |
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> wireless interface). |
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> config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) |
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> modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) |
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> wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" |
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> |
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> W. |
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Solved, all is working fine!! Thank you!! |
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