activating wlan0

[naz37]

hi im relativly new to fedora, iv installed FC4 on my toshiba staellite a20 labtop (dualbooting with windoze xp), iv been trying to get my netopia 3D reach pcmcia wireless g card running. i downloaded, compiled and installed the rt2500.ko beta driver for it and acually got it working yesterday.
But when i tried to activate it this today in System Settings > network it through the following error;
"rt2500 device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."

when i do "iwconfig" in the terminal it prints;
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

and for "iwconfig wlan0" in the terminal it prints;
[root@localhost Module]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 No such device

iv no idea whats up with it any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks

[scoon]

Hey there,

You need to do the following as root:
1) modprobe -v rt2500
2) ifconfig ra0

I think it will be ra0, if you do a quick dmesg after you load the module, you will see what that device is called.

regards,
scoon

[naz37]

thanks for the info;
i did "modprobe -v rt2500", but im not to sure what im looking for in dmesg heres the output

[root@localhost Module]# dmesg

usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: f7f00000-fdffffff
PREFETCH window: 14000000-140fffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:11.0
IO window: 00001000-00001fff
IO window: 00002000-00002fff
PREFETCH window: 10000000-11ffffff
MEM window: 12000000-13ffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:11.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7c set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1134381718.100:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 54AD4C348BA3456
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (28 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Unsupported ALi chipset (device id: 1672)
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:09.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKI] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKI] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ttyS9 at I/O 0x3428 (irq = 11) is a 8250
ttyS12 at I/O 0x3440 (irq = 11) is a 8250
ttyS14 at I/O 0x3450 (irq = 11) is a 8250
ttyS16 at I/O 0x3460 (irq = 11) is a 8250
ttyS18 at I/O 0x3470 (irq = 11) is a 8250
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:04.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A]: no GSI
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xeff0-0xeff7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xeff8-0xefff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST960821A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2412, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 229376 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
USB1 USB3 VIY0 LAN AMDM PWRB LID
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: PS/2 Mouse on isa0060/serio1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint on isa0060/serio1
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 876 types, 101 bools
security: 55 classes, 230370 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev dm-0, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xed00, 00:00:39:24:ab:f6, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
ali mixer 1 creating error.
ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:08.0: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or u se force_addr=0xaddr
ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:08.0: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted.
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.2[C] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: irq 11, io mem 0x14104200
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: park 0
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: irq 11, io mem 0xf7efe000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.1 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.1[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: irq 11, io mem 0x14102000
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:11.0 [1179:0001]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0475600(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.18
toshiba_acpi: HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: yes post: no)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
cdrom: open failed.
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda6, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 458744k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack




so do u think it is ra0? (eth0 is my ethernet), thanks again

[naz37]

i tryed both "ifconfig ra0" and "ifconfig wlan0" commands and on both cases i got the this as output;

ra0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

so its still not finding it?

[naz37]

iv tryed the command;
[root@localhost Module]# /sbin/cardctl status
Socket 0:
3.3V CardBus card
function 0: [ready]

so does this mean its detecting the card after all?? this is realy confusing

[naz37]

Iv solved the problem;
1)in start/desktop menu go to System Settings > Network
2)log in as root
3)in devices select wireless connection and click edit
4)tick the box for "activate divice when computer starts"
5)exit and save changes
6)reboot
7)enjoy wireless computing ;)

[scoon]

Hey there,

How about the output of just ifconfig ?

Also peek at the man pages for ifconfig and iwconfig for some more help.

regards,
scoon

[scoon]

good good....

[naz37]

thanks for the advice again scoon, it got me thinking (im posting this with wireless, yey!!)

[naz37]

ok, my early conclusion that my wireless card was working has turned out to of been a bit premature.
when i boot my laptop the wireless card does not activate. to get it working again i have to go through the steps i outlined above;

1)in start/desktop menu go to System Settings > Network
2)log in as root
3)in devices select wireless connection and click edit
4)tick the box for "activate divice when computer starts"
5)exit and save changes
6)reboot

after restarting, the wireless card works fine (im using it right now) . . . utill the next time i boot that is.
i think the problem has something to do with the rt2500 driver i compiled
heres the output of "iwconfig";

[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 18
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
Some things may be broken...

wlan0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"********************" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:CC:23:B6:B0
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:*************************************** Security mode:*********
Link Quality=94/100 Signal level=-28 dBm Noise level:-193 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.

so does anyone have any idea how to fix this and in the warning message in the output above what program is it actualy refering to when it says "while this program supports up to version 17"???

if you can give me any advice at all, ill be very greatfull.

[naz37]

if there is such a thing as a working wireless in linux then i have it working . . . .
i added the following lines to the "rc.local" file;

/sbin/wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
p2CnfPortType = 1

iv shutdown and booted twice and the card has started both times;
if anyone is experiancing similar problems follow the link below and check out post #9;

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=910600

[scoon]

Hey there,

I get that message as well. It is not a problem. Has something to do w/ the kernel's radio code. I read that someone changed the necessary line somewhere and the msg goes away.

regards,
scoon