Arne

Hello Guys, I have put the Belkin card "on ice". I have bought a linksys PCI bus card and a linksys Access point. Which I believe I have more luck with. Since I still have some issues I wonder if it is better to start a new post instead of continue her. What do the moderator say about that????

Ok ian, I think I need to clean up first. Delete in mcc ra0 delete alias wlan0 rt2500 delete ifcfg-ra0 What more do I need to clean??

Ian, I bought another card 'Linksys Wireless G model WPC54G' This on the compatible mdv 2006 list I start to doubt we will get the belkin to work. I think you use Linksys, right? I will not try this card before we have given up on the belkin. Ian, "I presume the lsmod, still shows rt2550 as loaded." yes the rt2500 is still loaded in lsmod.

This is the content of modprobe.preload: ndsiwrapper nvram sonypi Ian, I bought another card 'Linksys Wireless G model WPC54G' This on the compatible mdv 2006 list I start to doubt we will get the belkin to work. I think you use Linksys, right? I will not try this card before we have given up on the belkin.

After reboot the ra0 is back, Dam it. any more idees??

This is the output from 'syslog' after insert the card before I reboot It's a timeout here and then switching back to the ra0 thing.

This is the Cli output before I reboot. The question 'remove the regular file "ifcfg-ra0"' confuse me. Is there unregural file with the same name or is it part of linux safety that this file is important and you should know what you are doing. I reboot now with the card inserted.

Thank's Ian, In modprobe.conf I have only 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' NO 'alias ra0 rt2500' I will delete 'ifcfg-ra0' and then boot. I will keep you posted.

Qchem, I can only find that some parameters can be set in configure module for the Ralink. I did not see a general way to turn off all hardware detection. maybe somebody else have a tip

Yes, you right It doesn't survive a boot.

How about delete ra0 in mcc?????

When I reinsert the card the rt2500 come back. [root@ast2 arne]# lsmod Module Size Used by rt2500 156672 0 md5 3552 1 ipv6 222304 8 af_packet 15848 3 floppy 53620 0 pcmcia 19752 4 yenta_socket 18952 3 rsrc_nonstatic 10400 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 40964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic video 14020 0 thermal 10760 0 tc1100_wmi 5092 0 processor 17844 1 thermal ibm_acpi 23968 0 fan 3172 0 container 3008 0 button 4848 0 battery 7460 0 ac 3268 0 ide_cd 35812 0 loop 13544 0 nvram 7080 0 ndiswrapper 169460 0 tsdev 5856 0 uhci_hcd 27792 0 usbcore 100572 3 ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd evdev 7296 0 ext3 115016 2 jbd 44760 1 ext3 sd_mod 15120 0 ahci 8292 0 ata_piix 6820 0 libata 38980 2 ahci,ata_piix scsi_mod 115336 3 sd_mod,ahci,libata

Sorry Ian, the card was not inserted, [root@ast2 etc]# lsmod Module Size Used by rt2500 156672 0 md5 3552 1 ipv6 222304 8 af_packet 15848 3 floppy 53620 0 pcmcia 19752 4 yenta_socket 18952 3 rsrc_nonstatic 10400 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 40964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic video 14020 0 thermal 10760 0 tc1100_wmi 5092 0 processor 17844 1 thermal ibm_acpi 23968 0 fan 3172 0 container 3008 0 button 4848 0 battery 7460 0 ac 3268 0 ide_cd 35812 0 loop 13544 0 nvram 7080 0 ndiswrapper 169460 0 tsdev 5856 0 uhci_hcd 27792 0 usbcore 100572 3 ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd evdev 7296 0 ext3 115016 2 jbd 44760 1 ext3 sd_mod 15120 0 ahci 8292 0 ata_piix 6820 0 libata 38980 2 ahci,ata_piix scsi_mod 115336 3 sd_mod,ahci,libata

[root@ast2 etc]# lsmod Module Size Used by pcnet_cs 15860 1 8390 7840 1 pcnet_cs md5 3552 1 ipv6 222304 8 af_packet 15848 0 floppy 53620 0 pcmcia 19752 5 pcnet_cs yenta_socket 18952 3 rsrc_nonstatic 10400 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 40964 4 pcnet_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic video 14020 0 thermal 10760 0 tc1100_wmi 5092 0 processor 17844 1 thermal ibm_acpi 23968 0 fan 3172 0 container 3008 0 button 4848 0 battery 7460 0 ac 3268 0 ide_cd 35812 0 loop 13544 0 nvram 7080 0 ndiswrapper 169460 0 tsdev 5856 0 uhci_hcd 27792 0 usbcore 100572 3 ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd evdev 7296 0 ext3 115016 2 jbd 44760 1 ext3 sd_mod 15120 0 ahci 8292 0 ata_piix 6820 0 libata 38980 2 ahci,ata_piix scsi_mod 115336 3 sd_mod,ahci,libata Sorry not good

There has been a change to 'ifconfig'. ra0 is the pcmcia card in the notebook which have IP 10.0.0.4 not 10.0.0.6. Could it be that this IP 10.0.0.6 is the static address to the Access Point or....???? Otherwise it indicates that card is recognized and Ok. The have only 2 lights Lan and Radio. Could it be that this lights do not reflect if the card is recognized by the notebook???? lsmod still include 'rt2500' /etc/modprobe.preload includes this: ndiswrapper nvram sonypi . This output was taken after booting Notebook with the card inserted. Still no light on the card. I start to wonder about the AP I have. It's a Belkin Travel router with 3 functions: router, adapter and Access Point trough a switch for the tree functions. It's not a dedicated AP. Any idee/comment on this????? Lastly, here is dmesg for insert the card on a running notebook: I must say I am confused about this 'ra0' versus 'wlan0' and the eventual conflict. Any new idee's from the forum. I am in, all over my head.

Ian, It's night here. Can we contiue tomorrow

before I do iwconfig and before I do alias wlan0 ndiswrapper I hav e alias ra0 ndiswrapper in modprobe.conf. Should I remove alias ra0 ndiswrapper first????

rt2500 is not listed in /etc/modprobe.preload ndiswrapper is listed

here is the whole lsmod [root@ast2 arne]# lsmod Module Size Used by md5 3552 1 ipv6 222304 8 af_packet 15848 3 floppy 53620 0 rt2500 156672 0 pcmcia 19752 4 yenta_socket 18952 3 rsrc_nonstatic 10400 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 40964 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic video 14020 0 thermal 10760 0 tc1100_wmi 5092 0 processor 17844 1 thermal ibm_acpi 23968 0 fan 3172 0 container 3008 0 button 4848 0 battery 7460 0 ac 3268 0 ide_cd 35812 0 loop 13544 0 ndiswrapper 169460 0 nvram 7080 0 tsdev 5856 0 uhci_hcd 27792 0 usbcore 100572 3 ndiswrapper,uhci_hcd evdev 7296 0 ext3 115016 2 jbd 44760 1 ext3 sd_mod 15120 0 ahci 8292 0 ata_piix 6820 0 libata 38980 2 ahci,ata_piix scsi_mod 115336 3 sd_mod,ahci,libata

When I first got this card I do as usual just put the card in because often it just work. The reason I am saying that is the 'ra0' just turned up. After I start working on this ndiswrapper ting it keept on with the ra0. perhaps it should actually be 'wlan0' Just a tought.

Ian, As far as I understand the following is the proof that my card and driver is OK: My monitor (lover right screen) show ra0 connected. I think we are very close I don't know what to put in the mcc for which now show up in internet setup

a section of 'dmesg' look like this: ndiswrapper: driver rt2500 (Ralink Technology, Inc.,06/10/2004, 2.02.06.0000) loaded PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 ndiswrapper: using irq 9 wlan0: vendor: 'IEEE 802.11g Wireless Card.' wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:50:90:f7:05 using driver rt2500, 1814:0201.5.conf wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x130-0x137 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.

No light on the card after reboot. I have not set IP address for the access point yet but even without the light on the card should be there....right.

No light on card after reboot The end of syslog look like this Feb 16 17:00:22 ast2 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 in terval 7 Feb 16 17:00:29 ast2 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 in terval 8 Feb 16 17:00:37 ast2 dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Feb 16 17:00:37 ast2 ifplugd(ra0)[2682]: client: Determining IP information for ra0... failed. Feb 16 17:00:37 ast2 ifplugd(ra0)[2682]: Program execution failed, return value is 1. Feb 16 17:00:37 ast2 ifplugd(ra0)[2682]: Exiting. Feb 16 17:01:00 ast2 CROND[4029]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts --report /etc /cron.hourly) I will add 'ndiswrapper' to /etc/modprobe.preload and boot again.

What should I change it to?????