opensuse 11.4 module rt2800pci missing

In my PC I have a Linksys WMP600n PCI wireless card with a ralink rt2860 chip. Recently I installed opensuse 11.4 and recognized that only the rt2860sta module is available. The card works with this module but only in g mode. I wanted to try the rt2800pci module but could not find it. There was no file rt2800pci.ko in /lib/modules/… So I installed the compat-wireless package from the driver:wireless repo and everything went fine even with n mode. Today I made the kernel update but the compat-wireless package has not yet been updated and I had to go back to rt2860sta to get my wireless working (in g mode again, hence, I will upgrade compat-wireless when available).

My question is now: why is the kernel module file rt2800pci.ko missing? Other files like rt2800usb.ko,… are there. It is only this one file that seems to be forgotten. I would very much appreciate if I could use my wireless out-of-the box in n mode (though, I acknowledge the possibility that the kernel driver is older than the one in compat-wireless and works only in g mode…)

Cheers
Frank

On 04/29/2011 01:06 PM, frank from ch wrote:
>
> In my PC I have a Linksys WMP600n PCI wireless card with a ralink rt2860
> chip. Recently I installed opensuse 11.4 and recognized that only the
> rt2860sta module is available. The card works with this module but only
> in g mode. I wanted to try the rt2800pci module but could not find it.
> There was no file rt2800pci.ko in /lib/modules/… So I installed the
> compat-wireless package from the driver:wireless repo and everything
> went fine even with n mode. Today I made the kernel update but the
> compat-wireless package has not yet been updated and I had to go back to
> rt2860sta to get my wireless working (in g mode again, hence, I will
> upgrade compat-wireless when available).
>
> My question is now: why is the kernel module file rt2800pci.ko missing?
> Other files like rt2800usb.ko,… are there. It is only this one file
> that seems to be forgotten. I would very much appreciate if I could use
> my wireless out-of-the box in n mode (though, I acknowledge the
> possibility that the kernel driver is older than the one in
> compat-wireless and works only in g mode…)

Please run the following command and post the results


zcat /proc/config.gz | grep RT2800

the output of zcat… is:

CONFIG_RT2800PCI_PCI=y

CONFIG_RT2800PCI is not set

CONFIG_RT2800USB=m

CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT30XX is not set

CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT35XX is not set

CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN is not set

CONFIG_RT2800_LIB=m

BTW, I have to confess I figured out why compat-wireless had not been updated: I forgot to add wireless updates to the list of repos… how embarrassing :wink:

On 04/29/2011 03:36 PM, frank from ch wrote:
>
> the output of zcat… is:
>
> CONFIG_RT2800PCI_PCI=y
> # CONFIG_RT2800PCI is not set

The above 2 lines contradict each other. Something is rotten somewhere. From
what I see, the second one is correct and driver rt2800pci is not built.

> CONFIG_RT2800USB=m
> # CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT30XX is not set
> # CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT35XX is not set
> # CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN is not set
> CONFIG_RT2800_LIB=m
>
>
> BTW, I have to confess I figured out why compat-wireless had not been
> updated: I forgot to add wireless updates to the list of repos… how
> embarrassing :wink:

As I have made plenty of mistakes, I will never berate you for this.

Just to make this clear: I am using the desktop kernel that is being provided from opensuse. I have not made any changes to kernel configurations. Hence, if there is something wrong it must be a bug in the distribution. May be I should file a bug report.

On 04/30/2011 03:36 AM, frank from ch wrote:
>
> Just to make this clear: I am using the desktop kernel that is being
> provided from opensuse. I have not made any changes to kernel
> configurations. Hence, if there is something wrong it must be a bug in
> the distribution. May be I should file a bug report.

I have already reported this. I was aware that this was the standard kernel.

On 04/30/2011 12:31 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/30/2011 03:36 AM, frank from ch wrote:
>>
>> Just to make this clear: I am using the desktop kernel that is being
>> provided from opensuse. I have not made any changes to kernel
>> configurations. Hence, if there is something wrong it must be a bug in
>> the distribution. May be I should file a bug report.
>
> I have already reported this. I was aware that this was the standard kernel.

One other question: 32- or 64-bit system?

It’s a 64bit system.

You say you reported this already. But I could not find a report in bugzilla. Could you tell me the bug id, please?

On 04/30/2011 04:36 PM, frank from ch wrote:
>
> It’s a 64bit system.
>
> You say you reported this already. But I could not find a report in
> bugzilla. Could you tell me the bug id, please?

I had posted it on the opensuse-kernel mailing list, but I have now also opened
Bug 691073.

Many thanks for reporting the issue. I will follow the discussion on bugzilla and the mailing list. If you need more information or want me to try something, please let me know.