RT61pci causing confusion

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Hi,
Following my attempts to get online with my atheros pci card,
I chickened out and took an easier option-used a card with some
'native’support a Ralink RT 2561/RT61 , something I had hoped would work out of the box , and it nearly did-nearly but not quite. I’ve been struggling with it for a few days now and not
getting any where.
Here’s the relavent info.

AMD Phenom 3 core cpu,4 gb ram,Asrock mobo 250 gb HDD

Suse 11.1 kernel 2.6.7-9-default 64bit

Results of iwlist show the interface to be able to recieve

iwconfig comes up as it should with my essid, access point number

wep key , link quality 71/100 etc.

lspci RT2561/RT61 802.11pci

lspci -v subsystem EW7108PCg
Kernel driver in use rt61pci

      Kernel modules rt61pci

Ipv6 is off and wpa supplicant implementation is on

System still won’t go on line

dmesg | grep firmware --firmware requesting rt2561s.bin

 This all seems simple enough -give it what it wants,and

away you go ! . But this is where the difficulty starts I

don’t know how. Firstly rt2561s.bin is already one of the

3 main components of kernel module rt61pci , so its already

there. I have tried to install a downloaded rt2561s.bin this

fails , cause its already there . Interstingly I have three

versions of Suse 11.1 this 64 bit version ,a 32 bit version

and a 32bit live install cd I’ve tried them all and the

same problem each time. Open to instruction and suggestions

many thanks to Delta flier and Schefrien who tried to help

me earlier.

Cheers

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Claviceps wrote:

> dmesg | grep firmware --firmware requesting rt2561s.bin

Requesting firmware is NOT an error. Try renaming that file to
rt2561s.bin_save and unload/reload the driver. The output of ‘dmesg |
grep firmware’ should change.

Are you using NetworkManager or ifup to control your network?

You stated that iwconfig shows your ESSID and the MAC for your AP. If
so, that means you have associated. What does dmesg have to say about
authentication and association? These lines will look something like

wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1a:70:46:ba:b1 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:1a:70:46:ba:b1 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1a:70:46:ba:b1 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated

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Hi,
Grateful for your interest in my problem wich I have no doubt
is caused by my own ignorance.

Using ifup for the present.

the relevant chunk of dmesg goes —

firmware:requesting rt2561s.bin
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE)wlan0 is not ready
NET: Registered protocol family 17
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:21:63:2e:73:af
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:21:63:2e:73:af
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:21:63:2e:73:af (capab=0x44 status=0 aid=2)
wlan0: associated
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE : wlan0:becomes ready

Now going to try the unload and reload thing will post the outcome when Ive done it ,but please don’t hold your breath
being something of a newbie I’m never sure how long it will
take. Once again thanks for your interest.

Cheers

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Claviceps wrote:
> Hi,
> Grateful for your interest in my problem wich I have no doubt
> is caused by my own ignorance.
>
> Using ifup for the present.
>
> the relevant chunk of dmesg goes —
>
> firmware:requesting rt2561s.bin
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE)wlan0 is not ready
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:21:63:2e:73:af
> wlan0: authenticated
> wlan0: associate with AP 00:21:63:2e:73:af
> wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:21:63:2e:73:af (capab=0x44 status=0 aid=2)
> wlan0: associated
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE : wlan0:becomes ready
>
>
> Now going to try the unload and reload thing will post the outcome when
> Ive done it ,but please don’t hold your breath
> being something of a newbie I’m never sure how long it will
> take. Once again thanks for your interest.

This all looks normal. The inability to “go online” could be caused by
either routing or DNS problems. Are you using dynamic or static
address? If the latter, when you configured the interface using YaST,
did you fill in those pages?

Please post the output of the following 4 statements:

cat /etc/resolv.conf
/sbin/route -n
/usr/sbin/iwconfig
/sbin/ifconfig

5

Hi,
Info as requested----

cat/etc/resolv.conf
no such file or directory

/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef UseIface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0lo

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

wmaster no wireless extensions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID “Talktalkecc65”
mode managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point:00:21:63:2e:2e:73:AF
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=8dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption Key Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah -AF
security mode open
power management :off
Link quality=72/100 signal level -46 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc :0 missed beacon:0

/sbin/ifconfig

lo Link encap: local loopback
inet addr : 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
inet 6 addr: ::1/128 Scope host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Rx packets :84 errors:0dropped:0overruns:0 carrier:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0(o.ob) TXbytes :0 ( 0.0)

wlan0 Link encap :Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:EE:00:D6:22
inet6 addr: fe80::21a:eeff:fe00:d622/64 Scope link
UP Broadcast RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors;0 dropped:0 overruns :0 frame:0
TX packets:240 errors :0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier :0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0(0.0) TX bytes:84816 (82.8kb)

wmaster0 Link encap: Unspec
HWaddr 00-1A-EE-00-D6-22-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors;O dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors :0 dropped :0 overruns :0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes :0 (0.0b) TX bytes(0.0)

Although I dont understand much of the above it is starting to look like I have failed to set something up correctly.
Been using the Auto DHCP facility so no I didnt fill in all those
pages just my ESSID and wep key.

Cheers:O

6

Hi
Sorry that didn’t quite come out as I typed it the lines
seemed to have gotten compressed,also not sure where the smilies
came from ,must have caught the mouse with my elbow.

Cheers

7

Claviceps wrote:
> Hi,
> Info as requested----
>
> cat/etc/resolv.conf
> no such file or directory

There should be a space after cat.

> /sbin/route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetricRef UseIface
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0lo

You have no default route set up. The network software does not know
how to get out of your box.

>
> lo no wireless extensions
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions
>
> wmaster no wireless extensions
>
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID “Talktalkecc65”
> mode managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access
> Point:00:21:63:2e:2e:73:AF
> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=8dBm
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
> Encryption Key Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah -AF
> security mode open
> power management :off
> Link quality=72/100 signal level -46 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc :0 missed beacon:0
>
>
> /sbin/ifconfig
>
> lo Link encap: local loopback
> inet addr : 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
> inet 6 addr: ::1/128 Scope host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> Rx packets :84 errors:0dropped:0overruns:0 carrier:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0(o.ob) TXbytes :0 ( 0.0)
>
> wlan0 Link encap :Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:EE:00:D6:22
> inet6 addr: fe80::21a:eeff:fe00:d622/64 Scope link
> UP Broadcast RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors;0 dropped:0 overruns :0 frame:0
> TX packets:240 errors :0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier :0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0(0.0) TX bytes:84816 (82.8kb)

You do not have an IP address here.

> Although I dont understand much of the above it is starting to look
> like I have failed to set something up correctly.
> Been using the Auto DHCP facility so no I didnt fill in all those
> pages just my ESSID and wep key.

DHCP has not worked for some reason. Did you use NetworkManager? If
so, look at the file /var/log/NetworkManager to see if there are any
clues there. Your latest run will be at the bottom - do not post very
much of that file. It can be extremely large. If you are using the
ifup method, then post the contents of
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0. Your WEP key will be in there -
obscure it.

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Hi,
Thanks once more for your help on this - here’s some more
info.

cat /etc/resolv.conf

/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!

#Before you change this manually, consider to define the
#static DNS configuration using the following variables in the
#/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEVERS

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:

NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=’’

#See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation

#Note: Manual change of this file disables net configtoo,
#but may get lost when this file contains comments or
#empty lines only,the netconfig settings are same with
#settings in this file and in case of a "netconfig update

-f"call.

Please romove at least this line when you modify

the file!

/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0

bash: /etc sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lan0:Permission denied

Wasn’t sure what the cat term did but tried it anyway

cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0

BOOTPROTO=‘dhcp’
BROADCAST=’’
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=’’
IPADDR=’’
MTU=’’
NAME=‘RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI’
NETMASK=’’
NETWORK=’’
REMOTE_IPADDR=’’
STARTMODE=‘auto’
USERCONTROL=‘yes’
WIRELESS_AP=’’
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE=‘open’
WIRELESS_BITRATE=auto’
WIRELESS_CA_CERT=’’
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY=’’
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD=’’
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY=‘0’
WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH=’’
WIRELESS_EAP_MODE=’’
WIRELESS_ESSID=‘TALKTALKecc65’
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=’’
WIRELESS_KEY=’’
WIRELESS_KEY0=‘h: BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH ’
WIRELESS_KEY_1=’’
WIRELESS_KEY_2=’’
WIRELESS_KEY_3=’’
WIRELESS_KEY_4=’’
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH=‘128’
WIRELESS_MODE=‘Managed’
WIRELESS_NICK=’’
WIRELESS_NWID=’’
WIRELESS_PEEP_VERSION=’’
WIRELESS_POWER=‘yes’
WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID=’’
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY=’’
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=’’
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=’’

Hope this helps