Ok, I have been on rt2570 producer website (serialmonkey), I have
downloaded the source code, compiled it, installed and modprobed. I have
rebooted the machine and now iwconfig show:
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
rausb0 RT2500USB WLAN ESSID:"SNROUTNG01"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:5361-6C61-7474-694E-4554-0000-00 Security
mode:open
Link Quality=88/100 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-201 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
After "ifconfig rausb0 up", ifconfig show:
base sale # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:02:0A:F5
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:44ff:fe02:af5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:735 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:823 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:454222 (443.5 Kb) TX bytes:127911 (124.9 Kb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:F2:7C:07:6F
inet6 addr: fe80::215:f2ff:fe7c:76f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7277 (7.1 Kb) TX bytes:1918 (1.8 Kb)
The problem is that I can't get the USB dongle connected... I have tried
with the commands on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500, but I can't
get it working...
Daniele
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