Dear: Fellow users;
Normally I would not cross post to two debian lists, but since it
involves the kernels I thought it was appropriate for this situation.
As the title states, I am having problems wth my ralink rt61 driver,
which was compiled from source. The source was downloaded from ralink
website and I followed the directions, as the readme stated.
These gentleman also have some valid information about the rt61 driver
and how it works in Debian. The first link is more about the rt2500
driver, but since the rt61 driver is so close to the rt2500 driver it
applies especially to the modules part.
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Debian_rt2500_Howto
http://elonen.iki.fi/code/misc-notes/debian-rt61/
I do have the card working with the rt61 driver, but it does not work
with wep. Or at least with my router and does not want to get a dhcp
lease. Also the only way I can get wireless networking working is if I
manually start it as root.
Example:
1. Reboot system
2. Everything is listed, even have rt61 driver showup in lsmod.
3. ifconfig ra0 up
4. iwconfig ra0
5. dhclient ra0
Now everything works, if my router wep is turned off, if I have wep on
and use iwconfig ra0 key restricted xxxxxxxxx, then do a dhclient ra0
it times out looking for my router to get a dhcp connection. Even if I
set a static ip address, with ifconfig rao inet xxxxxx up it will not
give me internet access. Ping will not be ab le to ping other computers
on the network, or even the router.
Now if I try to automate with this in my /etc/network/interfaces file I
will get the following errors in dmesg, and kern.log. This is as
far as the kernel gets, and I have to hard reboot into another kernel
and remove the lines inorder to finish the boot. Also if I use
the rt61 dat file it still will not boot like it should. I know that is
is somewhat closed driver, and I might be out of luck, as most articles
I have found about the rt61 driver don't mention wep or security.
# Wireless network interface
# auto ra0
# iface ra0 inet dhcp
# wireless-essid *********
# wireless-key ***********
/
uname -a using debian etch source, with kernel headers installed.
Linux Minni-Orff 2.6.15-1-k7 #2 Thu Feb 2 18:48:35 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: CPU: 0
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: EIP:
0060:[pg0+545523658/1070257152] Tainted:
P VLI
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.15-1-k7)
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: EIP is at StateMachinePerformAction+0x1c/0x22 [rt61]
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx:
00000000 ecx: df76297c edx: df761fac
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: esi: de499e74 edi:
de499ead ebp: de499f38 esp: de499e60
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: Process iwconfig (pid: 5914, threadinfo=de498000 task=df155050)
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: Stack: df760000 e0b8eaba df760000 df76297c df76297c df76297c df760000 de4f8e6d
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff
kernel: e0ba3862 df760000
df760000 00000005 00000509 00000024 de499e9c 0000000d
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff
kernel: 6c6c6143 7269575f
73656c65 deb14073 c13d6280 00000003 c02aa270 de499f40
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: Call Trace:
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [pg0+545512122/1070257152] MlmeHandler+0x8f/0xc8 [rt61]
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [pg0+545597538/1070257152] rt_ioctl_siwessid+0xcc/0xdb [rt61]
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [wireless_process_ioctl+742/1493] wireless_process_ioctl+0x2e6/0x5d5
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [pg0+545597334/1070257152] rt_ioctl_siwessid+0x00xdb [rt61]
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [dev_ioctl+864/928] dev_ioctl+0x360/0x3a0
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [do_ioctl+33/86] do_ioctl+0x21/0x56
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [vfs_ioctl+348/363] vfs_ioctl+0x15c/0x16b
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [sys_ioctl+70/99] sys_ioctl+0x46/0x63
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: Code: 8d 0c 02 8b 53 10 8b 44
24 14 89 04 8a 5b c3 53 8b 54 24 0c 8b 4c 24 10 8b 42 08 8b 5a
10 0f af 42 0c 03 41 04 2b 02 89 4c 24 0c <8b> 0c 83 5b ff e1 c3 8b 44 24 08 ba 01 00 00 00 85 c0 0f 45 d0
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: <6>ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Feb 9 23:50:11 Minni-Orff kernel: ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
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I am glad this card works as is, but it would be nice to get wep
working. It's not a deal breaker as I also have essid hiding on, and
have mac address allow on for the network cards I need. Since my router
does not do wpa, and only 802.11b this is a home setting I am willing
to deal with this.
Gnu_Raiz
