seeking opensuse 11.3 driver for rt2800 usb wifi stick

lukemersh · January 15, 2011, 6:41pm

i have been scouting the net for a driver for this wifi stick, sort of found one but no joy installing any ideas?

regards

lwfinger · January 15, 2011, 7:35pm

On 01/15/2011 12:06 PM, lukemersh wrote:
>
> i have been scouting the net for a driver for this wifi stick, sort of
> found one but no joy installing any ideas?

My crystal ball is out for repair, thus I have no idea what driver this one
might need. Please post the output of ‘lsusb’ If you get a “command not found”
message, then 'sudo zypper in usbutils".

DenverD · January 15, 2011, 7:36pm

lukemersh wrote:
> any ideas?

have you been through all three stickies at the top of this forum?
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

lukemersh · January 15, 2011, 8:16pm

yes. found a website and chacked the ralink website but found it difficult to configure and install

lukemersh · January 15, 2011, 8:27pm

i believe it to be a ralink driver.
but i am new at linux and still struggling to work with how to install software.

lukemersh · January 15, 2011, 9:25pm

ok heres some info

lsusb:
"Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 083a:b522 Accton Technology Corp. EZ Connect N Draft 11n Wireless USB2.0 Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
"

and here is the dmesg |tail
"
196.157093] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
196.172988] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
196.172994] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
196.172998] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
196.173002] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
196.173005] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
196.173009] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
196.173012] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
255.175027] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
255.202188] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'SMCWUSBS-N2 ', timestamp 2007/10/06 04:12 (1000)
"

lwfinger · January 15, 2011, 10:06pm

On 01/15/2011 02:36 PM, lukemersh wrote:
>
> ok heres some info
>
> lsusb:
> "Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 083a:b522 Accton Technology Corp. EZ Connect N
> Draft 11n Wireless USB2.0 Adapter

That device is covered by the driver named rt2870sta, it has been in the kernel
since December of 2009, and it is in the standard kernel for 11.3. There should
be no need for you to build your own driver.

> and here is the dmesg |tail
> "
> 196.157093] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory
> domain
> 196.172988] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
> 196.172994] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth),
> (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
> 196.172998] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi,
> 2000 mBm)
> 196.173002] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi,
> 2000 mBm)
> 196.173005] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi,
> 2000 mBm)
> 196.173009] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi,
> 2000 mBm)
> 196.173012] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi,
> 2000 mBm)
> 255.175027] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly
> mount
> 255.202188] UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'SMCWUSBS-N2 ',
> timestamp 2007/10/06 04:12 (1000)
> "

That got cut off too soon for me to see what might be wrong. All I know is that
some wireless device got running far enough to set up the regulatory info with
CRDA. You may have missing firmware. Please post the entire dmesg output at some
pastebin location and post the link here.

lukemersh · January 16, 2011, 10:24am

that is the entire dsmeg.
there was no other info

ah7013 · January 16, 2011, 10:36am

Try the dmesg command without the “| tail” part. That will give you the entire dmesg.

Akoellh · January 16, 2011, 9:01pm

Fun thing, I am pretty sure that the “problem” (if there is one at all) is not “no driver” but “too many drivers”.

AFAIK rt2870sta is not depending on cfg80211/mac80211, so the driver actually causing that CRDA-Call must be another one depending on cfg80211/mac80211 (rt2800usb comes to mind).

lukemersh · January 23, 2011, 3:00pm

when i return home i will try this again, and post the result if the messages here.

not sure how to get around it.

lukemersh · January 27, 2011, 4:26pm

ok heres the list of usb’s
"Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 083a:b522 Accton Technology Corp. EZ Connect N Draft 11n Wireless USB2.0 Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp.

the one in bold is the usb wifi stick

but for some reason the dmesg command doesnt work???
when i get a response i will post it

pistazienfresser · January 27, 2011, 6:41pm

a)
Would it make sense trying to load the according kernel module “rt2870sta” manually?

modprobe rt2870sta

?

Compare: rt2870sta - Debian Wiki

b)
Is the according firmware installed and loaded?

I would guess the original could be found via
Ralink corp.
-> go to link
Firmware RT28XX/RT30XX USB series (RT2870/RT2770/RT3572/RT3070)
so => the folder “RT2870_Firmware_V22” including “rt2870.bin” (Mon 28 Dec 2009 20:38:30 CET)

I do not know if the Firmware for the RaLink USB-Devices is also included in the actual 11.3 standard installation or maybe in the (update)
ralink-firmware
packet that could be found (in Version 1.2-1.1) there:
software.opensuse.org: Search Results for “ralink” in openSUSE 11.3 repositories
with

LICENSE.ralink-firmware.txt, Ralink/rt73.bin, rt2561.bin, rt2561s.bin, rt2661.bin, rt2860.bin, rt2870.bin, rt3070.bin, rt3071.bin, rt3090.bin
(which my File Roller said is a future build - from the 2011/09/30 )

See also
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=ralink-firmware&project=driver%3Awireless
with the according sources.

But I am just a bit guessing around.

Have a lot of luck
pistazienfresser

pistazienfresser · January 27, 2011, 6:52pm

From the
WLAN/Karten › Wiki › ubuntuusers.de
German language Ubuntu article with

SMC

Bezeichnung Typ Chipsatz/Treiber Verschlüsselung Kommentar
…]
WUSBS-N2 v2 USB Ralink RT2870 ID 083A:B522 WEP WPA WPA2 Draft-N. Modul rt2800usb muss gesperrt werden.

I would guess
blacklisting the rt2800usb
would be worth a try.

Have a lot of luck
pistazienfresser

lukemersh · January 27, 2011, 9:28pm

i got nothing from modprode rt2870sta

but i am trying to get the firmware or something???

lukemersh · January 27, 2011, 9:49pm

i was not able to configure the tr2870sta firmware couldnt configure it, to advance for me. going to have to try something different.

pistazienfresser · January 27, 2011, 10:20pm

Have you written modprobe or modprode?

And ‘nothing’ is mostly a good sign (in contrast to an error message).
If you want to know what modprobe is doing you have to use the command with the additional option “-v” or “–verbose”:

man modprobe:

…]
-v --verbose
Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually mod‐
probe only prints messages if something goes wrong.
          This  option  is  passed  through  install or remove commands to
          other modprobe  commands  in  the  MODPROBE_OPTIONS  environment
          variable.

But maybe someone else could tell you more -
especially a command that could tell you more about the active kernel modules-
I fond only

lsmod

Sorry for being a bit too ignorant to really help you.
pistazienfresser

lukemersh · January 27, 2011, 10:29pm

so modprobe rt2870sta -v ???

pistazienfresser · January 27, 2011, 10:42pm

If at all (do not know if you shall [risk to] load a kernel module a second time):

su -
modprobe -v rt2870sta

(I think also it is common that the option is added after the man command and before the object of the main command)

But maybe someone more experienced would give a better hint?

puzzled
pistazienfresser

lukemersh · January 27, 2011, 10:54pm

just got a new line with that command