[dapper] problems with rt2500

[DXPUBLICA at telefonica.net]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:05 +0100, DXPUBLICA at telefonica.net wrote:
> 
Hi,
> 
> I have a pc with smc wireless home antenna. That is, really, 
rt2500
> wireless pci card. I have hoary installed in one partition. 
For that
> this card run I had to follow the Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo 
in the
> wiki.ubuntu.com (that now has dropped code) and all is great.
> 
> Now I want to test Dapper (Flight 2) that have support for this 
card.
> But I found a problem: in the network detection, dapper does 
not
> detect that I have ralink card and that I have connected via 
DHCP.
> 
> I suppose that it's because I have eth0, dapper only wants 
to detect
> configuration of eth0, forgetting to check other network 
devices, as
> wifi. So if I not connect any cable to eth0, dapper 
thinks that I have
> no network, but I have rt2500 enabled with g and 
DHCP

This sounds like a configuration problem that you might have 
introduced.
I have a PCI rt2500 card myself, and it worked out of the 
box with
breezy, and is still working with dapper without any 
reconfiguration. It
does, however, show up as ra0.

Likely, you need to 
get rid of your custom settings and let the
configuration tools do 
their work :)



Maybe I did not explain well the problem: my pc have 
an eth0 and rt2500 pci card. I haven't (and I can't physically put) any 
cable in my eth0.So my only internet connection is avaliable via 
rt2500. I'm interested in enable internet connection in ubuntu-
installer because I want to upgrade my software and etc during 
installation. I supposed that dapper tries to configure network doing 
the following:

- try to make DHCP in eth0 (this obviously fails)
- 
when it fails, try to make DHCP with any other devices (in my case 
rt2500)
- ask manually configuration (now only with eth0)

I suppose 
that I can run all the installtion without internet connection and then 
enable ra0 (that I suppose dapper autodetect), but I think that it 
should be in the network connection step.


Am I wrong?. Sorry if I 
misunderstand what you do.

Thanks,
Xan.