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w1av - 27.03.2006, 23:10 Uhr
Titel: Help with Wireless card

Hello....I have a HAWKING technology Hi-speed Wireless G card for my laptop. It was working fine in Kanotix 2005-3. When I installed 2005-4 I now seem to have trouble getting it going. Here is a print out of what I did:

IWCONFIG RESULTS:

lo no wireless extensions.

lan0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Tx-Power=-1
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-120 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
LSPCI RESULTS:

root@KanotixBox:/home/bob# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1
0000:02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IFCONFIG ETH1 UP......nothing happens.

It seems to be there, as I high lighted in RED above. When I used thecard in Kanotix 2005-3, the card was recognized as "ra0"......now it is "eth1".....
The card uses a "ralink RT2500 chip".

Even if there is a weak or no signal, usually I get a light on the card...I can't even get the light to come on....Is there some other steps I can try? w1av Traurig

Kano - 27.03.2006, 23:20 Uhr
Titel: Help with Wireless card

ifconfig eth1 up
iwlist s

gtpeacock - 19.05.2006, 02:48 Uhr
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I have the identical problem. When I enter iwlist s, I get

wireless0 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable

Has anyone figured out this RT2500 issue? If not, how do I dump this driver so that I can configure ndiswrapper?

gtpeacock - 01.06.2006, 03:38 Uhr
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I gave up on 2005-4 and reinstalled 2005-3. Now I have my RT2500 wireless working again. If I dist-upgrade will it break, or am I safe as long as I don't upgrade the kernel?

jiro - 01.06.2006, 04:00 Uhr
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I have a different wireless chip but have learned the hard way that any kernel newer than 2.6.15.6-kanotix-1 will kill my wireless. so I leave that kernel installed but dist-upgrade everything else and have no problems.

gtpeacock - 12.06.2006, 02:48 Uhr
Titel: Help with Wireless card

Well, I have gone the full circle with this one. After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade, my 2005.3 no longer connects. Now it acts like all the newer versions I have tried (3005.4, CeBIT, and EASTER). Basically, it installs the RT2500 driver without complaint, but will not get an IP lease from my router. The output below is similar when trying all these versions:

root@Frankenputer:/home/gtp# ifdown ra0
ifdown: interface ra0 not configured

root@Frankenputer:/home/gtp# ifup ra0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/ra0/00:16:b6:56:a0:9c
Sending on LPF/ra0/00:16:b6:56:a0:9c
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
receive_packet failed on ra0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database.

Exiting.

Failed to bring up ra0.

root@Frankenputer:/home/gtp# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"PEACOCK"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=82/100 Signal level:-201 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

sit0 no wireless extensions.

root@Frankenputer:/home/gtp# iwlist s
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

ra0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:0F:66:AA:41:FB
Mode:Managed
ESSID:"PEACOCK"
Encryption key:off
Channel:8
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-213 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm

sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

This is my etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo ra0
iface lo inet loopback

iface ra0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid PEACOCK

This all works great in 2005.3, but broke after I dist-upgraded. I did not upgrade the kernel, so suspect it has to do with the DHCP client. Any ideas? The machine works fine with Win98 and also Ubuntu.

jiro - 12.06.2006, 14:12 Uhr
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maybe try netcardconfig

gtpeacock - 13.06.2006, 03:19 Uhr
Titel: Help with Wireless card

No joy. Netcardconfig does not recognize an available interface to configure. I get the same failure posted above when I 'ifup ra0'.

scweej - 13.06.2006, 08:32 Uhr
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jiro hat folgendes geschrieben::

i'm on 2.6.16.5-kanotix-2 and get wlan on my laptop after a little fiddling around . My wlan chip is the Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG. i'm connecting to a dhcp server on my router.

jiro - 13.06.2006, 14:45 Uhr
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Is your wireless built-in or separate? my wlan is built-in, an atheros chip I think. I had no wireless problems starting from my original install 2005-03; upgrading kernel several times successfully. but I can't use any kernel newer than 2.6.15.6-kanotix-1.

Interesting that my wireless works fine with the latest liveCD, but dies once I install it.

gtpeacock - 14.06.2006, 04:01 Uhr
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Funny, I can't even dist-upgrade from 2005-3 without losing my connection. I re-installed 2005-3 tonight and then upgraded only the packages need for xorg (which is still a lot). Rebooted and dhcp failed, similar to what I get with the newer releases. Anyone have any ideas? I can't live with the old release and no updating!

scweej - 16.06.2006, 01:26 Uhr
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jiro hat folgendes geschrieben::

my chip is built-in.