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Thank you caf4926. You are awesome.
My wireless card is up and running.
I am able to send this post using my PC on opensuse 11.2 and that wireless network card.
A few things still puzzles me though.
Let me recap what happened.
I checked the link you gave me, and my wireless adapter is listed there. The chipset is rt2501. It says ‘ralink-firmware’ package required. I’ve installed the ralink-firmware package before, as mentioned in my first post.
I scrolled up the page and found the command
hwinfo --wlan
I ran that command and get this reply
19: USB 00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at usb.122]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_148f_2573_noserial_if0
Unique ID: ADDn.9pajj3PUrd8
Parent ID: k4bc.RJPqUTMMECB
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.3/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0
SysFS BusID: 1-1:1.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Ralink 54M.USB......."
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x148f "Ralink Technology, Corp."
Device: usb 0x2573 "54M.USB......."
Revision: "0.01"
Features: WLAN
Speed: 480 Mbps
Module Alias: "usb:v148Fp2573d0001dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt2500usb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt2500usb"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: rt73usb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt73usb"
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #12 (Hub)
It says “Driver status” is inactive for both rt2500usb and rt73usb.
So I did
modprobe rt2500usb
modprobe rt73usb
For both commands, I got a reply
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ralink, it will be ignored in a future release.
I was pretty sure there was something wrong. But when I checked the status on hwinfo --wlan again, both drivers are activated.
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt2500usb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt2500usb"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: rt73usb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt73usb"
I tried setting up the network with yast, and on Hardware tab, three modules appeared - rt73, rt73usb and rt2500usb. I chose rt73, and scanned for wireless network. I was surprised that it found my wireless network. I couldn’t even build the rt73 module. I went on with the configuration anyway.
When I clicked Accept, there is a popup saying that I need to install iw package. The installation failed since I needed to get online to download the package. The network configuration went on after I aborted the installation. Somehow, my network card managed to get activated.
So three things puzzled me - the WARNING after modprobe, how did the rt73 suddenly works and the “iw package”.
Still, caf4926, I can’t thank you enough.