Re: Ralink

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

En/na Gaudenz Steinlin ha escrit:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:54:32AM +0200, Xan wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have attached to slug a hub of 4 ports and in one port I plug a net  
> > usb key.
> > This key has ralink driver
> >
> > kernel detects it (you can show that in dmesg), but it does not put any  
> > interface (I have only eth0 and lo).
> >
> > What can I do for having interface present in ifconfig?
> > Please, step by step. I'm a begginer.
> > I want to use rt2x00 instead of old rt2570 driver
> >     
>
> How did you determine that there is now interface? Most probably the interface
> is still down and therefore does not show with ifconfig. Try 'ifconfig -a' 
> to see all interfaces.
>
> If the interface show up with 'ifconfig -a' you have to issue 'ifconfig xxx up' 
> to start scanning for wireless networks.
>
> Gaudenz
>
>   
Okay. Thanks.
With ifconfig -a, it appears. But I have two new interfaces. How can I 
see what modules use any of these?

ifconfig -a  
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:39:8a:77:7e 
         inet addr:172.26.0.2  Bcast:172.26.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::218:39ff:fe8a:777e/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:1298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:1015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
         RX bytes:98030 (95.7 KiB)  TX bytes:218310 (213.1 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:5a:4e:29:3d 
         BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-80-5A-4E-29-3D-02-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
         BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

What is ralink: wmaster0 or wlan0. Why I have two new interfaces?

Thanks a lot,
Xan.