Re: Asus rt2500 wireless card

[Richard <richard.vd.veen@gmail.com>]

2006/2/8, Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Following the advice I got in the thread "Debian and Wireless on an
> IBM Thinkpad), I got myself an Asus wireless LAN card. It uses the
> rt2500 driver, which I installed (I downloaded the neccecary Debian
> packages, did everything I was supposed to, and now have the rt2500
> module loaded). The laptop is running Debian Testing with kernel 2.6.
> I am trying to connect over wireless to a Lynksis wireless router. I
> cannot do it. I have tried adding
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> wireless_essid <MY_ESSID>
>
> to /etc/network/interfaces, but it is not working (I am doing ifdown
> eth0, ifup eth0). Please help!
>
> --
> Leonid Grinberg
> lgrinberg@gmail.com
>
>

Hi

I have a belkin wireless networkcard which also use the same chipset
and use Debian Sid. With me it is working although i have sometimes
that the interface changes from eth0 to eth1 or the otherway arround.
As other people already have told you, first should check if the
network card is loaded. This you can do with dmesg | grep WE ....
(Wireless Ethernet) and lsmod | grep rt2500 .... then you chould see
if the wireless extentions are build into the kernel and if your
kernel seeing the card as being a wireless network card with iwconfig.

iwconfig says here:

 /sbin/iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      RT2500 Wireless  ESSID:"SECRET"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.447 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=-1
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=65/100  Signal level=-56 dBm  Noise level:-193 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth1      no wireless extensions.


and furthermore i have in my /etc/network/interfaces file

...
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid SECRET
        wireless_mode managed
        wireless_channel 8
        wireless_rate 54M
        wireless-key1 XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
...

Hope this will help you a little.

NOTE: i have obscured some private data.

gr.
Richard