Hi
I’ve been trying to get my wireless to work
I’ll just output some of the command lines as told by “my wireless isn’t working a primer on what to do next”
so from /sbin/lspci the output was
05:03.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
after inputting dmesg | less i didn’t find “RT61 found” or something like that, however the first thing about rt61 i came across was
5.789540] rt61pci 0000:05:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
5.789545] rt61pci 0000:05:03.0: setting latency timer to 64
after running dmesg | grep firmware
i got the output
16.786207] rt61pci 0000;05;03.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin
i tried to find this firmware, and after downloading something from suse repos claiming to be the stuff i tried again, with the same output, i googled it and found an rt2561s.bin, and after opening it with install software (not sure what else to do :S) nothing happened (i.e. install software didn’t work. still getting the message asking for firmware)
Mike
battling on, i moved on to the iwconfig command even though i suspected there was a problem with firmware
output was “normal” i belive
IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“doesntwork”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:1B:2F:A1:D0:06
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-26 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Mike
moving on the the iwlist scan command
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:2F:A1:D0:06
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=70/70 Signal level=-24 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:“doesntwork”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=000001e341eda233
Extra: Last beacon: 645ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000A646F65736E74776F726B
IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
IE: Unknown: 03010B
IE: Unknown: 2A0107
IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
There was a second cell but that was a different router from somewhere else so i have excluded that to save space
so this is where the “primer” ends and i’ve tried configuring the wireless with the ESSID and passwords etc. but as it isn’t working i’m assuming it’s a matter of firmware, so is there anyone who might know as to the location of some suitable firmware and how to install it? thanks
Mike
P.S. apologies for the multiple posts but it doesn’t appear to let me post it all at once due to too many “images”?
If the same card was working in 11.1 ?
Its not the firmware for me it was dhcp
So first i took the names from what was in stalled dhcp*
Then i took the same rpm’s from 11.1 and installed them
with rpm --force --nodeps -Uvh *.rpm
In /etc/sysconfig/network edit config and dubbel the time it has to wait for the card to become ready (fast boot ??)
reboot
reconfigure the network card
reboot and you have a working connection 
On 12/08/2009 12:16 PM, MikeYoung3k wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I’ve been trying to get my wireless to work
> I’ll just output some of the command lines as told by “my wireless
> isn’t working a primer on what to do next”
>
> so from /sbin/lspci the output was
>
> 05:03.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>
> after inputting dmesg | less i didn’t find “RT61 found” or something
> like that, however the first thing about rt61 i came across was
> 5.789540] rt61pci 0000:05:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low)
> -> IRQ 17
> 5.789545] rt61pci 0000:05:03.0: setting latency timer to 64
>
> after running dmesg | grep firmware
> i got the output
>
> 16.786207] rt61pci 0000;05;03.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin
>
> i tried to find this firmware, and after downloading something from
> suse repos claiming to be the stuff i tried again, with the same output,
> i googled it and found an rt2561s.bin, and after opening it with install
> software (not sure what else to do :S) nothing happened (i.e. install
> software didn’t work. still getting the message asking for firmware)
That message just tells what file it was looking for. If it did not
find it, you would also get a message telling you that as well. If you
look in /lib/firmware, you will see that file.
Your later message of the iwconfig output shows that you have
associated and authenticated. Your wireless device is working and your
network key is OK. You either have the routing or the DHCP problem.
When you run the command ‘/sbin/route -n’ command, do you see a lne
with the UG flags set? If not, click on the NM applet and select
“Manage Connections”. Choose wireless, highlight your connection and
click on Edit. Choose the IP Address tab, pull down the box in the
lower-right hand corner to Routes and make sure that both boxes are
unchecked.
Hi
Thanks,
On the NM they are both unchecked, the output from /sbin/route -n
is
[size=][size=][size=]Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
sorry about the layout change, i hope you can understand that. not entirely sure if that was what you meant?
Thanks
Mike[/size][/size][/size]
Hi
Thanks for all the help, i’m not entirely sure how but it’s now working 
thanks for all the help
It does seem to be a bit teperamental in that it doesn’t click on links…but then it does work
Thanks very much guys
Mike