Airlink101 AWLH6070 / rt2860

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#1

Hello, I’m using openSUSE 11.1 and I’m having a rough time trying to get my wireless working.

I’ve followed the sticky threads here in the wireless section but it still will not work.

I’m using an Airlink101 pci card with the model AWLH6070 and the rt2860 driver.

Results of “/sbin/lspci -v”

**00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R Cardbus
Subsystem: Device 1948:3c8d
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at cc800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: rt2860
Kernel modules: rt2860sta [/size]

When I entered the “dmesg” command, I seen a few entries.

**rt2860sta: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
rt2860 0000:00:09.0: enabling device (0014 -> 0016)
rt2860 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 **

→ Error 2 opening /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat (I’ve seen this entry twice)

When I enter the “iwconfig” command, I get this.

ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:“My Network” Nickname:“RT2860STA”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:65:5B:D8
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-54 dBm Noise level:-81 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

BUT when I enter the SAME command 5 seconds later, I get this

ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:“RT2860STA”
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:3D:65:5B:D8
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-64 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

It’s missing my ESSID. It appears to come and go every few seconds.

Results of “iwlist scan”

ra0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:3D:65:5B:D8
ESSID:“My Network”
Mode:Managed
Channel:6
Quality:70/100 Signal level:-62 dBm Noise level:-81 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:36 Mb/s
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Preauthentication Supported

When I try to ping my router, I get “connect: Network is unreachable”.

Results of “usr/sbin/iwconfig ra0 | grep Mb”

Bit Rate=54 Mb/s

Results of “/sbin/lspci”

00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2760 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R Cardbus

Hope I haven’t left anything out.

I am at a total lost on the matter. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me.

Thanks**

#2

Anything guys? I not even sure where to begin here. :\

#3

Still isn’t working…

#4

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927

#5

Thank you for the link Akoellh. Unfortunately I don’t really understand much of what those posters are talking about.

I did try installing that rt2860sta_EEEPC-1.7.1.rm.0.src.rpm package they listed but it did not seem to do anything. :frowning:

#6

Installing a src.rpm does certainly not do any change, you have to rebuild it.

see:

Wireless for DELL/Vostro1510/ Suse 11.1 - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums

#7

Thanks Akoellh.

I did the “rpmbuild” of that src.rpm file , seen a lot of lines come up in the terminal and what not. Now I’m curious as to what to do next?

Near the bottom of the terminal output it shows this

Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/rt2860sta_EEEPC-kmp-debug-1.7.1.1_2.6.27.7_9.1-rm.0.i586.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/rt2860sta_EEEPC-kmp-default-1.7.1.1_2.6.27.7_9.1-rm.0.i586.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/rt2860sta_EEEPC-kmp-pae-1.7.1.1_2.6.27.7_9.1-rm.0.i586.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/rt2860sta_EEEPC-kmp-trace-1.7.1.1_2.6.27.7_9.1-rm.0.i586.rpm
Wrote: /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/rt2860sta_EEEPC-kmp-xen-1.7.1.1_2.6.27.7_9.1-rm.0.i586.rpm

I really appreciate your help on this Akoellh.

#8

Take a look at output of “uname -r” and then choose the correct package to install.

#9

Alright, I installed the “pae” package which corresponded with the output of the uname -r command. Under the network settings I seen 2 identical entries for my wireless network card. I clicked delete on them both, which completely removed one of them, and clicked edit to configure the remaining one.

Unfortunately, all this didn’t seem to really have any effect on my situation. I still cannot connect to my network.

I dunno what it is about Linux and wireless, but they sure don’t mix together very well.

I’m very grateful for all the help Akoellh.