linksys wmp54g almost working in 10.2 but not quite - any ideas?

Hi all,

I've been using linux on and off for about 10 years, and have recently been
trying to get back into the swing of things (so I know a fair bit of what's
going on, but it's been a little while). I've recently installed openSUSE
10.2. I have a linksys wmp54g v4.1 PCI wireless card that uses the Ralink
RT61 chipset.

I've installed, and successfully got the card working under Ubuntu using
the driver supplied on Ralink's website. However the trail of info I seemed
to be following for openSUSE seemed to point to ndiswrapper solutions. I'm
attempting to use the YAST network manager solution and have configured my
card with the ndiswrapper as directed.

I can get the card working... sort of... depending on how I configure the
card I can get it to detect the wireless networks in the area, so it
definitely seems that the card/driver is working to some extent. I can't
seem to join networks if I use DHCP, instead I have to specify an ip, which
is fine, except I can't seem to get any packets beyond the wireless card
itself once it says I have joined a network.

Given this information I've got a couple questions hopefully someone can
help me with.

1) Does it seem like this could just be a routing issue? I know typically I
just add a route for the default gateway to be my router (192.168.0.1), and
although I have done this in the YAST network manager, and simply with
"route add default gw 192.168.0.1", that does not seem to help.

Now on the ndiswrapper wiki, it did say for v4.1 card not to use
ndiswrapper and to use the driver from Ralink's site.

2) If this is the best way to go, since I've already verified it works in
Ubuntu, how would I go about backing out of the YAST network manager, and
what do I need to do to just use the traditional ifconfig method of adding
and configuring the card? I did already try to do this, but with no luck.
It seems openSUSE treats network configuration a bit differently than
Ubuntu (different configuration files, perscribed device names, etc.).

After installing the Ralink driver following their instructions, simply typing:

ifconfig ra0 inet 192.168.0.xxx up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1

....got it up and running ok on Ubuntu. I have also tried this same
procedure in openSUSE, but with no luck, so I'm assuming there's more to
reverting to this way of configuriong the network devices than I was able
to figure out.

Any insight would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Mike

michael.everett@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been using linux on and off for about 10 years, and have recently
> been trying to get back into the swing of things (so I know a fair bit of
> what's going on, but it's been a little while). I've recently installed
> openSUSE 10.2. I have a linksys wmp54g v4.1 PCI wireless card that uses
> the Ralink RT61 chipset.
I have problems with a Level One WNC 0301 wireless card which is also RT61
based.
Have a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227470 .

You might try the latest driver version suggested by Alex Lau there.
Unfortunately I could't find the time yet to test that driver version.
So it would be nice, if you could report your experience to bugzilla.