AirLink101 Wireless card Woes

I first tried to setup a DLink DWA-552 wireless card only to find
experimental drivers. I then took some advice and bought an inexpensive
wireless card. I am having trouble finding drivers for it as well. The
details are as follows:

OS: SuSE 10.1
Card Manufacturer: Airlink101 802.11g/b
Model Number: AWLH3026T
Chipset: RaLink RT2561

YaST will not detect this card. It shows up as RaLink "Unknown" in both
the lspci and hwinfo commands. I just need to get a wireless connection
working. I am just having the worst luck in finding something in the
stores that plays nice with Linux. Can anybody help me get this working,
or tell me where I van find a PCI wireless card that does work??

Ron,

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Hom...ort/Linux.html

Uwe

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OK, I got the driver from where you suggested. I compiled and installed
it. SuSE now recognizes the interface as ra0. However, I am unable to
configure it. YaST will not recognize the card. I can only see it with
the iwconfig and ifconfig commands. I can bring it up and down. I can
see that it is communicating with the access point. I can assign an
ESSID. I cannot get it to use the dhcp from my access point. When I try
to assign an IP address manually, the machine freezes.

I am now at a loss. I made a mistake in the configuration somewhere. I
have no idea where. Red Hat and Ubuntu forums show similar problems
without resolution. But it is obvious that some people are using this
card successfully. Now I need to find out how to do it. Can anybody help
me with the configuration???

Ron,

sorry, not me. I'd need the same environment to try it myself. I suggest you contact the vendor.

Uwe


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AirLink 101 does not provide Linux support. I told them of my
dissatisfaction with this as politically correct as I could. I sent an
e-mail to RaLink technical support. I'll let you know what they say. I
just wish I could find a list somewhere of card manufacturers and model
numbers that I could take to the store with me. Most of what I've seen
are old cards that are no longer in stores.

Ron Schmiegelt wrote:
> AirLink 101 does not provide Linux support. I told them of my
> dissatisfaction with this as politically correct as I could. I sent an
> e-mail to RaLink technical support. I'll let you know what they say. I
> just wish I could find a list somewhere of card manufacturers and model
> numbers that I could take to the store with me. Most of what I've seen
> are old cards that are no longer in stores.

With the Airlink card in the computer, what does the output of 'lspci -v' and 'lspci -n' for the
corresponding buss show?

A good place to start for compatible hardware is http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/.

Larry

Ron,

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_A...%28Wireless%29

Uwe


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My lspci information is as below:

00:00.0
Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset
Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0
PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82850 850 (Tehama) Chipset
AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:1e.0
PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801
PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fe100000-fe2fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-400fffff

00:1f.0
ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA
ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1
IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04) (prog-if 80
[Master])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:1f.2
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 04)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at dcd0 [size=16]

00:1f.4
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 04)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185
I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97
Audio (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 201
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
I/O ports at dc40 [size=64]

01:00.0
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev
a4) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 002e
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0

02:07.0
Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 08)
Subsystem: GVC Corporation Dell Copper
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at fe1f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at ecf8 [size=8]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

02:09.0
Network controller: RaLink Unknown device 0302
Subsystem: Unknown device 1948:3c83
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
Memory at fe1e8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

02:0a.0
RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649 Ultra ATA/100
PCI to ATA Host Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 0649
Ultra ATA/100 PCI to ATA Host Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 177
I/O ports at ecf0 [size=8]
I/O ports at ece8 [size=4]
I/O ports at ecd8 [size=8]
I/O ports at ecd0 [size=4]
I/O ports at ecb0 [size=16]
Expansion ROM at 40000000 [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60]
Power Management version 2

02:0c.0
Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 00c6
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
Memory at fe1e7c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 40080000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc]
Power Management version 2
00:00.0



Class 0600: 8086:2530 (rev 02)
00:01.0
Class 0604: 8086:2532 (rev 02)
00:1e.0
Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev 04)
00:1f.0
Class 0601: 8086:2440 (rev 04)
00:1f.1
Class 0101: 8086:244b (rev 04)
00:1f.2
Class 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 04)
00:1f.3
Class 0c05: 8086:2443 (rev 04)
00:1f.4
Class 0c03: 8086:2444 (rev 04)
00:1f.5
Class 0401: 8086:2445 (rev 04)
01:00.0
Class 0300: 10de:0150 (rev a4)
02:07.0
Class 0780: 14f1:1033 (rev 08)
02:09.0
Class 0280: 1814:0302
02:0a.0
Class 0104: 1095:0649 (rev 01)
02:0c.0
Class 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 78)

I don't know what else to tell you. I've looked at the sources for
wireless cards listed in these posts. However, they are all old models no
longer available in stores. So, I'm a little at a loss. I'd appreciate
any help that I can get.

Thanks.