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#1 2006-06-06 06:44:37

deficite
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From: Augusta, GA
Registered: 2005-06-02
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rt2x00, am I doing this right?

I'm using a Belkin USB 54g. I followed the instructions listed in the wiki and rt2x00's message board and I don't know if it's connecting or not. I tried the package in [unstable] and I took the PKGBUILD and made my own package using the latest CVS snapshot and they do the same thing. Here's what I do:

modprobe rt2500usb
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid taylor-home
iwconfig wlan0 ap <bssid>
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.101

For the bssid I tried the address given to me in iwlist and the adress given in ifconfig. iwlist does work correctly, and it picks up my router. Whenever I try to ping my router it acts like it's going to ping, but each pong response returns that the address isn't accessible. I know rt2x00 works with this device because it works fine in Kubuntu, which uses rt2x00.

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#2 2006-06-06 09:38:48

iphitus
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-10-09
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Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

do you normally use static IP on your home network?

also, it's important you modprobe the three modules in order:

modprobe 80211
modprobe rate_control
modprobe $driver

and finally, dont worry about using a newer version than what the package is, I update the package every two or three days.

James

edit: i dont know whether it'll work for you, but seeing as you have an rt2500, there's a somewhat more SMP friendly rt2500 in [unstable] too. It'll still lock up if you try to scan, but it works perfectly otherwise for me.

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#3 2006-06-06 18:28:43

deficite
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From: Augusta, GA
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Posts: 693

Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

I use rt2500usb, not rt2500. The rt2500 is just for pci, isn't it? I usually use static IP. I have Windows XP set up this way and all my past installations of Arch I did the same thing. I've tried using rt2x00 with Arch several times and usually gave up and recompiled the kernel and used rt2570 instead. But, nevertheless, I actually tried dhcpcd first and to no success. I tried modprobing them all separately as well, and it didn't fix it.

Should I use the ap from ifconfig or iwlist? I think I'm supposed to use ifconfig's because it's the MAC of the actual adapter, but I'm not 100%. rt2570 and ndiswrapper always did that automatically for me.

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#4 2006-06-06 22:02:24

brain0
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From: Aachen - Germany
Registered: 2005-01-03
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Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

It doesn't look like there is much progress with the rt2x00 project. The drivers for pci sometimes work and sometimes don't. The usb drivers are even worse. I thought with this being the third rewrite of rt2x00, we would have a working driver before the end of the world.

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#5 2006-06-08 23:26:46

deficite
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From: Augusta, GA
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Posts: 693

Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

Yeah, it really is taking them forever. The main thing holding me off from using Arch exclusively is wireless support. Yeah, I can use ndiswrapper, but I really hate ndiswrapper. Also, I lose ehci by going ndiswrapper, so I'm cut down to 11mbps and my flash drives crawl.

I do know I can recompile the kernel and just run rt2570. That's how I used to run Arch. Problem is, for some reason I've been having a lot of problems compiling kernels recently with Arch. I don't know why, but I get random errors in compiling, the kernels don't work right, and a bunch of other problems. I might try Xubuntu out. I really like the Dapper Drake releases of Ubuntu, but I've gotten tired of GNOME and KDE.

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#6 2006-06-09 09:49:17

iphitus
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Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

Should I use the ap from ifconfig or iwlist? I think I'm supposed to use ifconfig's because it's the MAC of the actual adapter, but I'm not 100%. rt2570 and ndiswrapper always did that automatically for me.

no, you use the one of the access point, not your adaptor.

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#7 2006-06-09 20:34:34

deficite
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Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

I'm posting this right now from an SMP kernel and rt2570 from CVS. It's working beautifully. If you're curious I'm using the CVS from 2006060913. The person that maintains the rt2500 driver can make a package for rt2570 if they wish, or I can submit the PKGBUILD to the AUR. The build process is the same, so all I'd do is change the source. I haven't looked at rt2500's PKGBUILD, but it's probably the same way: for some reason the crappy install process that rt2570 uses install the module to /lib/modules/extra instead of inside /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
Move the directory into the correct place and give a good depmod and you're good to go.

PS: I'm using 2.6.16-beyond

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#8 2006-06-09 23:48:31

iphitus
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Re: rt2x00, am I doing this right?

deficite wrote:

I'm posting this right now from an SMP kernel and rt2570 from CVS. It's working beautifully. If you're curious I'm using the CVS from 2006060913. The person that maintains the rt2500 driver can make a package for rt2570 if they wish, or I can submit the PKGBUILD to the AUR. The build process is the same, so all I'd do is change the source. I haven't looked at rt2500's PKGBUILD, but it's probably the same way: for some reason the crappy install process that rt2570 uses install the module to /lib/modules/extra instead of inside /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
Move the directory into the correct place and give a good depmod and you're good to go.

PS: I'm using 2.6.16-beyond

sure, I'll build a package now, and update rt2500.

edit: might do it after the testing move to make things a bit easier.

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