11.2 rt61pci driver is broken no internet

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Installed 11.2 configured the rt61 card but no internet
nothing happens lsmod no Rt61pci

tried all the things written here no way it will work
The kernel has bigbugs in the ralink drivers See Ubuntu forums.

So installed my kernel 2.6.26.25.3 and presto internet
11.2 is running like as with 11.1 so waiting for kernel update and for the time being i leave as it is now.

New kernel new try

Sysinfo:
OS: Linux 2.6.29-25-default x86_64
Current user: rob@linux-ssd
System: openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.3.3 (KDE 4.3.3) “release 1”

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Have you subitted a bug report? Or failing that join the kernel mail list and report your finding there. The forum is a discussion and help spot, rather than bug reporting service.

There’s machines which don’t boot with 2.6.31.5 kernel’s that are happy with 2.6.27.x stable kernel used by OS 11.1.

Bug reports solved, will give justification for offering a kernel update.

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I strongly support this. When nobody tells the kernel guys of this regression, nothing will be done because they are not clairvoyant.

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van rob koendering <susegebr@gmail.com>
aan opensuse-kernel <opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org>
datum 15 november 2009 12:15
onderwerp broken rt61pci driver in 11.2 kernels 30 / 31 /32
verzonden door gmail.com
details verbergen 12:15 (32 minuten geleden)
Installed suse 11.2 config the wifi card no internet

reboot lsmod no tr61pci

changed fastboot to normal same result

Installed the 11.1 kernel 2.6.26.25.3
lsmod gives tr61pci and i have internet

so take the ralink drivers from that kernel put them in 31.x
and give us a new kernel

Robert Koendering
Willemstad
Curacao

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I’m running 11.2 on an MSI megabook, with RT61, and I’m posting this…

It was painful to get it running but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the kernel (if it did then I would be stuffed)

what worked for me:

get firmware
disable network manager on advice
trot through iwconfig, but for WPA2 and passphrase - used Yast and ifup
working

what I’d like to know is whether there’d some way to make this a little less manual as I have to do it every time I power up
:frowning:

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I am not sure if this helps, but in /etc/sysconfig/network/ you find the values that are used at boot, for the network interfaces. You could look in the file ifcfg-wlan0 (or the appropriate one of it is not wlan0) for parameters missing a value. But do make a coy of hye file before you start editing :slight_smile: .

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I would like to say I had a similar problem, but I could only connect to my router, no internet. I have found out there is a bug in the KDE4 networkmanager, I have to use YaST to configure and run my wireless. An utter pain because I move through so many wireless APs with my work.

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_________________ SOLUTION ______________________

Deleted through Yast the config of the network card

Made a new one with the normal params its using
taken care that power managemant is off
Gave the mac adress from the AP it has to connect to.

Finish yast and **** INTERNET IS WORKING *****

So during install there must have been a fault so that what was given was not written to disk
the command iwconfig no params gave me the info i was looking for to solv this problem

Why the older kernel did work is still not clear but who is … for me it works and thats that ;):slight_smile:

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Congratulations. When one solves such a thing by oneself that is very satisfactionary.