Will Briggs wrote: > > Daniele Salatti wrote: >> 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 >> > > G'day again Daniele, > > This is great - it looks like the module, on the face of it, is working > and it looks like you've probably got your SSID and encryption keys set > etc. A good place to look to check what you've done is > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup. > Personally I've gone with wpa_supplicant to handle my connection. > > I would hazard a guess that if you did "ifconfig rausb0 <ip address>" > you would almost be in business at this point. Ideally you would want > this to dhcp up. I do that with wpa_supplicant and ifplugd controlling > my network interfaces (including the wireless) which is nice for > laptops. ifplugd starts /etc/net.eth* when it detects a link is up in > which case it then looks to my /etc/conf.d/net which says (eth1 is my > wireless interface). > > config_eth1=( "dhcp" ) > modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) > wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext" > > W.
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