I installed a driver for my onboard 802.11n wifi on my ASUS P5Q3 mobo. I successfully loaded the driver and added the entry in /etc/modprobe.conf.local
alias ra0 rt2870sta
I brought up the interface:
ifup ra0
ra0
scripts/ifup-wireless: line 108: cd: /sys/class/net/ra0/device/driver: No such file or directory
ra0 warning: using NO encryption
command ‘iwconfig ra0 mode Managed’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Mode” (8B06) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 nick shotley’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Nickname” (8B1C) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 key off’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 essid any’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set ESSID” (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
iconfig ra0
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:AF:9D:0B:9E
inet6 addr: fe80::215:afff:fe9d:b9e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:660208 (644.7 Kb) TX bytes:101784 (99.3 Kb)
iwconfig ra0
iwconfig ra0
ra0 RT2870 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:“RT2870STA”
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 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
I added this file as per readme instructions:
vim /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ra0
DEVICE=‘ra0’
ONBOOT=‘yes’
I can scan wireless networks with iwlist scan.
I modified file /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat for my wireless network (set SSID, NetworkType, AuthMode, etc)
I cannot see the interface in Yast. Does anyone know how I set ESSID, turn on authentaion for WPA? I’m almost there…
