Edimax EW-7728ln PCI driver installation problem

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#1

Hi all,
I’m new to Linux and newer to OpenSuse (11.0-86_64) and recently installed a wireless PCI card. I can’t seem to get it to work so any help will be great.

I triple boot with windoze_xp86 and Mint (altho having same probs with Mint so may try another).
Mobo: Asus M2N SLI
Currently on eth0 to my cable modem.
The card works on windozexp, so there’s no hardware probs.
The installation CD had a relevant Linux installation folder (RT2860_RT2890_RT2760) which I downloaded to desktop.

The instructions said to use the “install.sh” script.
"
�@ $cd AutoInstall
�@ $./install.sh
�@
The install.sh executes the following steps to install RT2860 STA Driver and Boa Web Server.
1. Input the value of install directory, IP address and port number.
2. Copy RT2860.tgz, WebUI.tgz and WPA_Supplicant.tgz into install directory and uncompress them.
3. Compile RT2860, Web Server and WPA_Supplicant.
4. Copy boa.conf, wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli into install_direcory/etc/boa
5. Copy RT2860STA.dat into install_directory/etc/Wireless/RT2860STA.
6. Execute Boa Web Server
7. Insert and up RT2860 module.
8. Create a run.sh that restarts the WebUI by user easier.
9. Start Browser."

I set the install.sh file to executable and in a console ran the script from root.

Lots of lines and noticable errors (SSL, missing files etc,) later it tries to open a webui with the address
“http://127.0.0.1/Sta/index.html”.
Firefox replies “The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1.”

So what’s up with that?!!

I’ve started with the sticky’s and am having headaches half way through them but here’s the answers to what I can make sense of.

From YAST=>Hardware=>Hardware Information there is no “wireless LAN” entry. It is in “Network Card” and “PCI” as “Ralink Network Controller”.
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1814_601

No sign of External firmware needed or radio kill switch as far as i can tell.

sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions

/sbin/lspci
01:07.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 0601

/sbin/lspci -n
01:07.0 0280: 1814:0601

/sbin/lspci -v
01:07.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 0601
Subsystem: Edimax Computer Co. Device 7728
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fdfe0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
Capabilities: <access denied>

sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig scan
scan No such device

Okay, so that’s as far as I can get without considering putting a staple in my head. Truth be known, most of it is meaningless to me, anyone who can shed light on the problem and help me through this will be in for a thanking to end all thankings.
I’ll be back tomorrow to try again. thanks.[/size]

#2

thesleepymoose wrote:
>
> Okay, so that’s as far as I can get without considering putting a
> staple in my head. Truth be known, most of it is meaningless to me,
> anyone who can shed light on the problem and help me through this will
> be in for a thanking to end all thankings.
> I’ll be back tomorrow to try again. thanks.

I don’t know anything about that vendor driver, but most vendor drivers are a pain.

Have you installed kernel sources? Compiling an out-of-kernel driver needs the
kernel headers that are installed along with the kernel source.

#3
  1. Find out kernel version (2.6.x.y), architecture (i586 or x86_64) and kernel flavor (default, pae…).

uname -r

cat /etc/SuSE-release

  1. Got to Software.openSUSE.org

  2. Choose distribution

  3. Enter “rt2860sta-kmp”

  4. Choose package matching your output of 0).

  5. Download and install

  6. Run

modprobe rt2860sta

as root.

  1. Configure your card (by default you can use NetworkManager)

You’re done.

#4

Thanks for your input.

No, don’t know how to.

Was on 11.0 2.6.25.16-0.1 and couldn’t find that kernels RT2860 driver, so set OS update going. Had probs with it and used Yast’s update. Now I’m having probs loading xwindows.

The kernel now says 11.0 - 2.6.25.20-0.1
(no mention of x86/64)
In normal boot terminal loads up until it skips run level 5.

Failsafe boot options :
“ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume edd=off x11failsafe vga=0x317”
Trying to run in Failsafe mode has a looping error starting at
…
Error inserting processor
…
It’s not on the screen long enough for me to make sense of.

Then there’s lots of code looping and timeing out. Something like:
ata1.00: status: {DRDY}
ata1: soft resetting link
ata1: SATA link up to 1.5 Gbps (SStaus 113 Scontrol 310)
ata1.00: Configured for PI00
ata1: EH complete
ata1:00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
…
and on and on it goes more 0:0 addresses then a timeout and back to the start. I’m leaving it for now coz it’s doing some other strange stuff.

I’ve got nothing to loose on that partition, should I just clear the decks and start with a fresh 11.0 install?

#5

If you have ATI or Nvidia driver installed not using packages from ATI-/NVidia-Repository, you have to recompile the respective kernel module.

#6

I have NVidia 9500 GT. No drivers installed. How do I get repositories and install from terminal? Any web pages for noobs? Also how to recompile (Sounds scary!)

thanks.

#7

thesleepymoose wrote:
>
> I’ve got nothing to loose on that partition, should I just clear the
> decks and start with a fresh 11.0 install?

If you are doing a fresh install, use 11.1 with KDE 3.5. The wireless code is a
lot better in 2.6.27 than in 2.6.25 (11.0).

Larry

#8

Yast also works from terminal (“su -c /sbin/yast”), no GUI does not mean your system is “broken”.

#9

… I know but that doesn’t stop me from being a terminal cripple lol!

I guess I’ll be using normal boot, not failsafe. Once I get past the login and su -c /sbin/yast, how do I use it? complete instructions would be very advantageous. thanks

#10

Arrow keys, space bar, TAB and Enter.

#11

Thanks for all your help Akoellh,
okay got into Yast control centre but when i try to select “Graphics card and monitor” it just freezes for a bit and then returns to the same menu. What next?

#12

Sorry, but I have no bloody clue what you are trying to do here.

More informations would be appreciated.

How do I get repositories and install from terminal?

The same way as with GUI-YaST.

#13

I’m not sure either, that’s why I’m asking. OpenSuse isn’t loading properly, you mentioned Nvidia drivers. So I thought I had to download them from the repositories and then compile(?) them.
I’m sorry, I’m so lost with this.

#14

You had problems with online update?

=> (re)do all online updates via YaST until there are no more updates available

You had problems with kernel update?

=> reinstall kernel-packages via YaST

You want to install nvidia-drivers?

=> Add the nvidia-repository via YaST and (re)install them via YaST

Is it really that difficult?

#15

Did the update,
following Nvidia update from this website:
Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users
Will update you later,
thanks.

#16

thanks for all your help, this is taking ages!
Got my gui back by adding Nvidia repo and installing the missing dependencies. Connected my cable modem to do that and it’s still connected.

Onto the edimax card. went to Software.openSUSE.org and searched for rt2860sta and 1-click installed the ralink driver and repos.

However, iwconfig shows no wireless extensions

the Edimax card appears in Yast’s hardware under network.

I really thought I had it there. Am I missing something?

#17

Yes, you miss better information, we cannot guess what you installed until you name it explicitly.

#18

Sorry,
file is ‘rt2860sta-kmp-default’
version : 1.8.0.0_2.6.25.20_0.1-49.1-x86_64

#19

Kernel module loaded?

#20

what’s that & how do I find out?