Good evenning.
I’m a newbee in Opensuse. I’ve used Mandriva and Ubuntu, and I want tochhange to Opensuse, but vave find a big problem: My wireless card.
I’ve a Levelone wnc-0301 (CHIPSET RT61). I’ve intaled Opensuse 11.0, download rt61-cvs-daily from serialmonkey, and installed. The steps was as follows:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make cloneconfig
make module_prepare
then, cd to the rt61 driver directory and:
make
make install
Compilation wsa with no errors, so:
modprobe -r rt61pci
modprobe rt61
In Yast, configured for open WEP with the key.
rcnetwork restart.
Here begin the bad stuff: DHCP says “no ip address yet…backgrounding”
I checked my configuration:
dmesg | grep -i rt61—>
rt61: 1.1.0 CVS 2008111713 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
rt61: RT61: RfIcType= 3
lsmod | grep -i rt61---->
rt61 214096 0
firmware_class 25984 2 microcode,rt61
hwinfo---->
13: PCI 0b.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.310]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1814_301
Unique ID: y9sn.gohsp1cSoiA
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0b.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “RaLink EW-7108PCg”
Vendor: pci 0x1814 “RaLink”
Device: pci 0x0301 “RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI”
SubVendor: pci 0x1814 “RaLink”
SubDevice: pci 0x2561 “EW-7108PCg”
Driver: “rt61”
Driver Modules: “rt61”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfebf0000-0xfebf7fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 19 (no events)
HW Address: 00:11:6b:3b:75:40
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472
WLAN bitrates: 1 2 5.5 11 9 18 36 54
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey
Module Alias: “pci:v00001814d00000301sv00001814sd00002561bc02sc80 i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt61 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rt61”
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: rt61pci is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rt61pci”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
route—>
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
( you see, nothing at all…)
ifconfig wlan0---->
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:6B:3B:75:40
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:907 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:68996 (67.3 Kb) TX bytes:11852 (11.5 Kb)
Interrupt:19
iwconfig wlan0---->
wlan0 RT61 Wireless ESSID:“MIRED” Nickname:“linux-rsko”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:laquesea
Link Quality=82/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-111 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I’ve checked this card in XP, Mandriva and Ubuntu, and it works right (with and without WEP). Password of the wep is right.
I think that problem is that opensuse don’t get a IP address, but I’ve a good signal of the router (82/100).
Could somebody help me? I’ve installed opensuse about 30 times. I’ve checked with ndiswrapper, drivers for ralink web site. I don’t know what can I do. I like opensuse ( I use it on my work), but have spent three weeks trying configurations, without success. I’ve burned my eyes in forums, google, an nothing.
I apologize by my bad english.
do you know what is wrong?
best regards
Fernando