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mcarni

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Registered: 2011-02-13

Posts: 19

load rt2800pci on startup fails

hi,

I have an edimax EW-7711In pci wireless dapater.

lspci -nn:

03:05.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3060 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R [1814:3060]

it used to work with the rt3562sta driver, after one of the recent updates it stopped working so I started looking into the archlinux forum and i found that now my card is supported by the rt2800pci module which is actually in teh kernel.

the problem is that if I run "modprobe rt2800pci" in a terminal I get the device to be recognised and I can connect (netcfg/networkmanager all work ok), but if I wait for udev to load the approrpiate module during boot i get no connection.
I tried to add "rt2800pci" to my modules in rc.conf:

MODULES=(fuse rt2800pci powernow-k8 cpufreq_ondemand lp parport parport_pc)

UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

USEDMRAID="no"

USEBTRFS="no"

USELVM="no"

but    still no luck

/var/log/errors.log gives me this line which i guess it could be of help:

[  852.880430] phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware

but when i tried googling it i could find anything that solved the issue.

can anybody tell a noob like me where i am getting it worng'

Thanks

m

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: load rt2800pci on startup fails

Try explicitly loading it through your initramfs. So add "rt2800pci" to the MODULES section in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and run "mkinitcpio -p linux" afterwards.

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mcarni

Member

Registered: 2011-02-13

Posts: 19

Re: load rt2800pci on startup fails

Thanks Gcool,

did what you suggested and rebooted and it worked!

didn't expect it to be so....easy....I am a bit confused now...
was I doing anything wrong with /etc/rc.conf?
is it better to load modules in mkinitcpio rather than rc.conf?
or is it just some strange quirk of the rt2800pci module?

thanks a lot

M

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: load rt2800pci on startup fails

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134012