RaLink RT2600 on Hardy Not Working

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As nutty as this sounds, try replacing "wlan0" with "eth0".  My wireless
interfaces always show up as either eth0 or eth1, depending on the box.

Also, do a "cat /proc/net/dev" and see if wlanX or ethX is in there.

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Schiz0 wrote:
> I have a PCI wireless network card. It worked perfectly fine in Gusty.
> I got a new HDD recently and installed Hardy from scratch, and now the
> wireless card isn't working. Whenever I try to bring up the interface,
> I get the error "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory".
>
> Here's the output from multiple commands:
>
> sudo lscpi:
> 03:02.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO
>
> sudo lshw -C network:
>   *-network DISABLED
>        description: Wireless interface
>        product: RT2600 802.11 MIMO
>        vendor: RaLink
>        physical id: 2
>        bus info: pci at 0000:03:02.0
>        logical name: wmaster0
>        version: 00
>        serial: 00:50:18:4e:7b:29
>        width: 32 bits
>        clock: 33MHz
>        capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
>        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci ip=192.168.1.234
> latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
>
> sudo lsmod | grep rt:
> parport_pc             41128  0
> parport                44300  2 parport_pc,lp
> rt61pci                27648  0
> rt2x00pci              12800  1 rt61pci
> rt2x00lib              25344  2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
> rfkill                 10128  1 rt2x00lib
> input_polldev           6928  1 rt2x00lib
> crc_itu_t               3584  1 rt2x00lib
> mac80211              192532  3 rt61pci,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
> iTCO_vendor_support     5764  1 iTCO_wdt
> eeprom_93cx6            3840  1 rt61pci
>
> cat /etc/network/interfaces:
> iface wlan0 inet static
> 	address 192.168.1.243
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> 	gateway 192.168.1.1
> 	wireless-key s:InsertASCIIPassHere
> 	wireless-essid InsertSSIDHere
> auto wlan0
>
> sudo iwconfig:
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> wmaster0  no wireless extensions.
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:""
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:0  Access Point: Not-Associated
>           Tx-Power=0 dBm
>           Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> sudo ifconfig wlan0 up:
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
>   
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