Tim wrote:
> On Saturday 17 February 2007 21:38, John Cooper wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> I have to compile my own rt2500 driver for every new kernel I install.
>> Check yours is loaded ok
>>
>> $ lsmod | grep rt2500
>> rt2500 173668 1
>>
>
> root@2[mit]# lsmod | grep rt2500
> rt2500 150372 0
>
>
>
"0" means it isn't being used by anything. For example my "1" means
there is 1 module using it e.g. ra0. Try
modprobe wlan0
and lsmod to see if changed.
>> and check /etc/modprobe.conf for the alias. Mine is ra0 but you use wlan0.
>>
>> $ grep rt2500 /etc/modprobe.conf
>> alias ra0 rt2500
>>
>>
>
> There is nothing in etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf but in the etc/modprobe.d
> folder there is a file called rt2500 and the contents are:
>
> #change the name of the interface to a standard one
> options rt2500 ifname=wlan%d
>
Looks like you are missing the "alias ra0 rt2500" . Add it to the above
file and do
modprobe ra0
That would explain why lsmod doesn't show rt2500 being used.
> Should I change the alias to ra0??
>
>
You'd have to change all the settings to ra0, but it should work as
wlan0 so leave for now.
>> Frequency 2.462 is channel 11 which is the normal channel used. My
>> wireless only works when set to "Managed" mode, not "Ad-hoc" (I set the
>> channel in Ad-hoc mode and then select Managed which then greys out the
>> channel option, maybe just Fedora gui)
>>
>> $ iwconfig ra0
>> ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"myname" Nickname:"laptop.me.com"
>> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:XX:XX:XX:XX
>> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm
>> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
>> Link Quality=86/100 Signal level=-55 dBm Noise level:-196 dBm
>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>>
>> Check you config file. The Fedora is :-
>>
>> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ra0
>>
>> GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
>> TYPE=Wireless
>> DEVICE=ra0
>> HWADDR=00:XX:XX:XX:XX
>> BOOTPROTO=none
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> DHCP_HOSTNAME=
>> IPADDR=192.168.0.2
>> DOMAIN=
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> USERCTL=no
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> ESSID=linksys
>> CHANNEL=11
>> MODE=Managed
>> RATE=54M
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the same, but I have /etc/networks/interfaces which
> contains a llist of interface IP setting for the IP, subnet,gateway and
> broadcast. The section relevant to wlan0
> is
>
> #auto wlan0
> #allow-hotplug wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet static
> address 192.168.*.*
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> broadcast 192.168.*.*
> gateway 192.168.*.*
> auto ra0
> allow hotplug ra0
> iface ra0 inet static
> address 192.168.*.*
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> broadcast 192.168.*.*
> gateway 192.168.*.*
>
>
>
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