Partial success - the interface is now working! Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:21:34 +0000, Chris Lale wrote:[...] Florian Kulzer wrote: [...]It could also be that you are missing some other modules, e.g. someparts of the ieee80211 stack.No ieee80211 packages are installed on either system.I meant the kernel modules for ieee80211.
No results when I grep lsmod for '802' or 'ieee'. [..]
Diff'ing the output of "lsmod"[...]Try to compare this for the two cases: lsmod | cut -d " " -f1 | sort
Ah - much neater!fresh install working install
8250_pci 8250_pci
8250_pnp 8250_pnp
ac ac
ac97_codec <
agpgart agpgart
> autofs4
battery battery
> binfmt_misc
button button
crc_ccitt crc_ccitt
cs46xx <
dm_mirror dm_mirror
dm_mod dm_mod
dm_snapshot dm_snapshot
> drm
e100 e100
evdev evdev
ext3 ext3
fan fan
fat fat
firmware_class
firmware_class
floppy floppy
gameport gameport
generic generic
i2c_core i2c_core
i2c_piix4 i2c_piix4
ide_core ide_core
ide_disk ide_disk
intel_agp intel_agp
> ipv6
irda irda
irtty_sir irtty_sir
jbd jbd
> lockd
loop loop
> lp
mbcache mbcache
mii mii
Module Module
mousedev mousedev
> nfs
> nfs_acl
nls_cp437 nls_cp437
nls_iso8859_1
nls_iso8859_1
nsc_ircc nsc_ircc
> nvram
parport parport
parport_pc parport_pc
pci_hotplug pci_hotplug
pcmcia pcmcia
pcmcia_core pcmcia_core
pcspkr pcspkr
piix piix
> ppdev
processor processor
psmouse psmouse
rsrc_nonstatic
rsrc_nonstatic
rt2500 rt2500
rtc rtc
> savage
serio_raw serio_raw
shpchp shpchp
sir_dev sir_dev
snd snd
snd_ac97_bus snd_ac97_bus
snd_ac97_codec
snd_ac97_codec
snd_cs46xx snd_cs46xx> snd_mixer_oss snd_page_alloc snd_page_alloc
snd_pcm snd_pcm
> snd_pcm_oss
snd_rawmidi snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device
snd_seq_device
snd_timer snd_timer
soundcore soundcore
> sunrpc
thermal thermal
tsdev tsdev
uhci_hcd uhci_hcd
> uinput
usbcore usbcore
vfat vfat
yenta_socket yenta_socket
[...] Is /etc/Wireless/RT2500STA/RT2500STA.dat the same for both installs?
Aha! No. 'AuthMode=OPEN' on the working system, but 'AuthMode=SHARED' on the fresh install. If I change the value in the fresh install (with a text editor) to 'AuthMode=OPEN' and bring up the interface (ifup eth1) I get lights! Also iwconfig reports a link (eg Link Quality=74/100). I can ping to other addresses now. I found that I could also change this value by adding these lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
pre-up ifconfig eth1 up pre-up iwpriv eth1 set AuthMode=OPENThe interface works. There is a niggle though: bringing the interface down (ifdown eth1) now gives an error:
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Function not implemented.
8B06 looks very similar to numbers in the output of 'iwpriv', but
'iwpriv' does not report 8B06 (see below). I don't know whether this is
relevant.
Have you any idea how AuthMode was originally set to SHARE on the fresh install and not on the older working install?
Does "iwpriv" expose any private commands to turn the device on or off?
Both sytems have identical results for 'iwpriv' (apart from the interface names eth1 or wlan0):
eth1 Available private ioctls :
set (8BE2) : set 1024 char & get 0
bbp (8BE3) : set 1024 char & get 1024 char
mac (8BE5) : set 1024 char & get 1024 char
e2p (8BE7) : set 1024 char & get 1024 char
rfmontx (8BED) : set 2 int & get 1 char
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'll see if I can get
'rt2x00' and 'ndiswrapper' working with the card now.
-- Chris.