ifconfig ra0 up freeze

acetylcholine · 2006-02-08 02:23:14

my wireless card wont start

when i go

ifconfig ra0 up
the whole system freezes. i have to reboot. ugly business. I installed the latest driver (rt2500 beta3 from serialmonkey with make; make install)

lshwd gives: 01:04.0 Network controller: RaLink|Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rt2500)

Any exp? Should I just install an older version?

edit: of course lsmod gives rt2500 i modprobe it first

iphitus · 2006-02-08 03:37:06

rt2500 does not work with the ArchCK or Arch packages as it does not support SMP, which both of these kernels are compiled for.

You can try passing the option nosmp to your kernel at boot, via lilo or grub, but I am not sure how well this will work.

iphitus

brain0 · 2006-02-08 10:13:51

iphitus wrote:

You can try passing the option nosmp to your kernel at boot, via lilo or grub, but I am not sure how well this will work.

I talked to some guy at IRC who had the same problem, he said that nosmp didn't help. I've been using rt2500 on 2 machines for some time now with custom non-smp kernels which works quite well.

Note that there are plans for a new driver, but afaik it won't be finished anytime soon and it has been started from scratch for the third time now. Anyway, once this driver is finished, it will have full smp support.

brain0 · 2006-02-09 01:38:55

firefox wrote:

CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y

I don't think HAMRADIO is related to this, but it shouldn't hurt either.

iphitus · 2006-02-09 06:20:36

Its the smp option, the hamradio one is completely irrelevant.

iphitus

acetylcholine · 2006-02-09 19:05:58

thankfully, i only have one processor. This means I'll have to recompile my kernel... every time oh well

why would SMP have something to do with my wireless card?

brain0 · 2006-02-09 19:32:35

acetylcholine wrote:

why would SMP have something to do with my wireless card?

It's not the card, it's the driver. The card works well with smp (I think there were some success stories with smp kernels and the experimental new driver, though only in RFMON mode).

acetylcholine · 2006-07-16 07:49:37

does anybody have an update on this? recompiling without smp fixed the problem before 2.17 but with 2.17 the drivers dont compile. ndiswrapper doesnt respond to iwscan and all the other iw commands also rt2x00 doesnt work.

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