RaLink rt2500 wireless cards -- edgy regression?

[Sean Hammond]

Hmm... in lspci, where you have:

Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560

I have:

Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 107f

Our dmesg's differ slightly too, yours:

[   84.800002] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[   84.800015] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
[   84.854179] rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14  Channel
[   84.854196] rt2500 EEPROM:  4  4  4  4  4  7  7  7  7  7  7  7  8 8
 dBm Maximum

Mine:

[17179619.228000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
[17179619.228000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA]
-> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
[17179619.228000] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

AND I did not have any entry for ra0 in my /etc/network/interfaces. So
I added one:

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp

But this doesn't seem to have helped. If I go to
System-Administration-Networking now, my wireless card appears as 'not
configured.' If I click on Properties I see that 'Enable this
connection' is not checked. So I check it, set configuration to DHCP,
password type to Hexadecimal, leave everything else blank, I want it
to search for networks for me, press OK and nothing happens. The card
remains 'not configured.' There is no way to configure it via that
GUI, at least not using DHCP. Maybe this is a bug in the new GUI. On
Dapper, doing that would have caused the card to scan for networks,
then I could go to Properties again and choose a network from the
drop-down list (it was a bizarre GUI, but it worked).

Hmm... is my /etc/network/interfaces entry wrong? What should it say?
It could be that installing network manager on Dapper has messed it
up. NM is now uninstalled, but maybe it changed the config files.

Interestingly my interfaces file also contains a bunch of entries for
devices I don't have: eth1, eth2, ath0, wlan0, no idea where they came
from.


On 10/8/06, Jonathan Hudson <jh+ubuntu at daria.co.uk> wrote:
> Sean Hammond wrote:
> > Can you give me an lspci or something to compare with mine?
> >
> > I'd like to get to the bottom of this.
>
> As below. Settings are unchanged from dapper.
>
> -jh
>
> Edimax PCMCIA Card on PPC
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> lspci -vvvv
>
> 0001:11:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g
> Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)        Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort-
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 0
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 58
>         Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> dmesg
> [   84.800002] PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> [   84.800015] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
> [   84.854179] rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
> 14  Channel
> [   84.854196] rt2500 EEPROM:  4  4  4  4  4  7  7  7  7  7  7  7  8
> 8  dBm Maximum
>
> /etc/networks/interfaces
> auto ra0
> iface ra0 inet dhcp
>   pre-up ifconfig ra0 down
>   pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
>   pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid MYESSID
>   pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode Managed
>   pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
>   pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
>   pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=superdupersekreet
>
> Sweex card on (ancient) IA32
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> lspci
>
> 00:0b.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI
> (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: RaLink Unknown device 2560
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: Memory at e0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> dmesg
>
> [   88.596911] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0
> [   88.597276] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA4 2006/06/18
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
> [   89.460990] rt2500 EEPROM:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
> 14  Channel
> [   89.461030] rt2500 EEPROM: 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31
> 31  dBm Maximum
>
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