Wireless driver initialized with NetworkManager, but not ifup

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I’m running openSuse 11.3 64-bit on an HP Pavillion p6510f. It has an
onboard RaLink wireless N (RT3090). NetworkManager is able to configure and
use the wireless device. Ifup is unable to initialize the driver (rt2860). I
would rather use ifup so that the network will up without user action.

Why is this happening and how can I fix it?

I have included the relevant section of hwinfo below:

37: PCI 200.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: y9sn.24hml8FOBj8
Parent ID: CvwD.3XFj+Q3bL9C
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:02:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: “RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe”
Vendor: pci 0x1814 “RaLink”
Device: pci 0x3090 “RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe”
SubVendor: pci 0x11ad “Lite-On Communications Inc”
SubDevice: pci 0x6632
Driver: “rt2860”
Driver Modules: “rt2860sta”
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfe9f0000-0xfe9fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 17 (76048 events)
HW Address: 70:f1:a1:a7:0d:95
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447
2.452 2.457 2.462
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: “pci:v00001814d00003090sv000011ADsd00006632bc02sc80i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt2860sta is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe rt2860sta”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)

Thanks,

Andrew

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What messages do you get following the ifup command?

There is a bug in /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-wireless that will select
the wrong driver interface for wpa_supplicant. To test for this, find the
section of that file that looks like


if need_wpa_supplicant ; then
info_mesg "configuration requires wpa_supplicant"
if  "$WPA_DRIVER" = "unsupported" ]; then
message "`printf "    %-9s warning: WPA configured but may be
unsupported" $INTERFACE`"
message "`printf "    %-9s warning: by this device" $INTERFACE`"
info_mesg "using WPA driver 'nl80211' for interface $INTERFACE
with driver $DRIVER"
info_mesg "when you notice problems with this new driver, set " \
"WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER='wext' and file a bug report"
WPA_DRIVER=nl80211
fi
start_wpa_supplicant

Find the 3rd line from the bottom of this snippet and (as root) change to
‘WPA_DRIVER=wext’. Does that help? If so, this has been reported as a bug and
the fix is in the pipeline.

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That was it! Thanks.