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From: Will Briggs <will@××××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:55:25
Message-Id: 44DAAD45.5020700@burnieanglican.org.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g by Daniele Salatti
1 Daniele Salatti wrote:
2 > Ok, I have been on rt2570 producer website (serialmonkey), I have
3 > downloaded the source code, compiled it, installed and modprobed. I have
4 > rebooted the machine and now iwconfig show:
5 >
6 > lo no wireless extensions.
7 >
8 > sit0 no wireless extensions.
9 >
10 > eth0 no wireless extensions.
11 >
12 > rausb0 RT2500USB WLAN ESSID:"SNROUTNG01"
13 > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
14 > RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
15 > Encryption key:5361-6C61-7474-694E-4554-0000-00 Security
16 > mode:open
17 > Link Quality=88/100 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-201 dBm
18 > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
19 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
20 >
21 >
22 > After "ifconfig rausb0 up", ifconfig show:
23 >
24 > base sale # ifconfig
25 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:02:0A:F5
26 > inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
27 > inet6 addr: fe80::202:44ff:fe02:af5/64 Scope:Link
28 > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
29 > RX packets:735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
30 > TX packets:823 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
31 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
32 > RX bytes:454222 (443.5 Kb) TX bytes:127911 (124.9 Kb)
33 > Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000
34 >
35 > lo Link encap:Local Loopback
36 > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
37 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
38 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
39 > RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
40 > TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
41 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
42 > RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
43 >
44 > rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:F2:7C:07:6F
45 > inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fe7c:76f/64 Scope:Link
46 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
47 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
48 > TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
49 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
50 > RX bytes:7277 (7.1 Kb) TX bytes:1918 (1.8 Kb)
51 >
52 > The problem is that I can't get the USB dongle connected... I have tried
53 > with the commands on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500, but I can't
54 > get it working...
55 >
56 > Daniele
57 >
58
59 G'day again Daniele,
60
61 This is great - it looks like the module, on the face of it, is working
62 and it looks like you've probably got your SSID and encryption keys set
63 etc. A good place to look to check what you've done is
64 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup.
65 Personally I've gone with wpa_supplicant to handle my connection.
66
67 I would hazard a guess that if you did "ifconfig rausb0 <ip address>"
68 you would almost be in business at this point. Ideally you would want
69 this to dhcp up. I do that with wpa_supplicant and ifplugd controlling
70 my network interfaces (including the wireless) which is nice for
71 laptops. ifplugd starts /etc/net.eth* when it detects a link is up in
72 which case it then looks to my /etc/conf.d/net which says (eth1 is my
73 wireless interface).
74
75 config_eth1=( "dhcp" )
76 modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
77 wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
78
79 W.
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g Daniele Salatti <linuxlist@×××××××.net>