Arne Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 (edited) Hello Murda, I have tried to install Belkin pci card with rt2500 chip (actually rt2560 chip in my case). I think the main reason for failing was 2 drivers present at the same time, ndiswrapper and the driver supplied in 2006 which I was not aware off at the time. Anyway I tried without ndiswrapper one time and the card was recognized but the light on the card never turned on. Therefore can you please tell me what commands you issued to get the light on = make the card work. Maybe something like modprobe rt2500 or iwconfig ra0 up or ......... I would be very grateful if you tell me. As of now I have gone back to win98SE to get wireless connection but I miss 2006. Edited March 14, 2006 by Arne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 afaik the rt2560 uses the rt2570 driver, but I may be wrong here. Here is a BIG FAT WARNING for everyone who uses these drivers, rt2500, rt2400 and rt2570. If you use a SMP kernel, (if you have hyperthreading, multiple cpus, or a dual core cpu) -- you can check if you are by running "uname -a" in a console, these drivers will result in a guaranteed lock up when you bring up your network interface as they do not work with the smp kernel. The solution is to install the plain kernel without smp support and use your wireless from within that, or use the smp with ndiswrapper. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Hello iphitus, Sorry fro late answer. Thanks for your reply. afaik the rt2560 uses the rt2570 driver, but I may be wrong here. You maybe right but according to my info rt2570 is the usb driver. The win-driver following my card Bus is rt2500 driver. When I issue the 'uname -a' get: [root@TOT arne]# uname -aLinux TOT.co.th 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1.70GHz unknown GNU/Linux So, is this a plain or SMP kernel?????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 That's a plain kernel. This is an SMP kernel: Linux laptop.mdk 2.6.12-13mdksmp #1 SMP Mon Nov 21 18:11:31 CET 2005 i686 Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.66GHz unknown GNU/Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Thank's for reply Steve Scrimpshire, That's clarify and explain how to determine SMP kernels. I am tempted to try 2006 again. If the original 2006 driver dont work I can try the latest beta3 driver from Serialmonkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 the one from serialmonkey has been around for a while, chances are this is what mdk2006 includes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 iphitus, The original rt2500 in 2006.0 is dated 09-sept-2005. The latest Serialmonkey beta 3 was released 18-dec-2005. Thanks for your reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 (edited) That third beta release is not rt2500. It is rt2x00, which is the new driver, written entirely from scratch to replace that whole rt2xx0 series of wireless devices. rt2x00 is currently in a barely usable state, it uses large amounts of CPU, has very slow performance, and tends to drop packets. That's if you were lucky enough to get it running. It is in early stages of development, so this is to be expected. It should become a very good driver eventually. Edited March 16, 2006 by iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murda Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 I didn't have to do anything, just configured a static ip, the gateway address and set DNS servers. It works perfectly now. Only problem is that the network hangs sometimes when I use terminal (for SSH connection) and Firefox at the same time. I mean, it just stops sending and receiving packets. It isn't a big problem though, because it happens so rarely, and when it happens, I just use: service network restart And everything is up and running again. It may have something to do with my temperature problems (laptop gets so hot that it almost burns my hand when I touch the bottom of the computer), but that's an another story. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted March 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Hello iphitus, You are right. I downloaded the rt2500-1.1.0-b3.tar.gz and the release date is 31-jul-2005. So, do you think this is the driver included in 2006.0?????? Hello Murda, The configuration you did, you did it in 'ifcfg-ra0' ...or Thank's both of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Arne: I'd be dissapointed in mandriva if they didnt include that one, but I wouldnt put it past them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted March 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Thank' for reply Thinking about the hell I have been trough with 3 cards and 2 access points and no luck and I didn't know that it was a driver for this card native in 2006.0 and nobody replying to my posts did know either. Why don't mandriva make such information more easily available for users? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mcollister Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 i've the same problem here, card shows up but no link light and no network connect. have you had any progress? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 I've split this from the original post as it's changing the topic a bit - should get more attention without the solved tag too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cebo Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Don't know if this helps, but I have a card using Rt2500 chip. With 2.6.12 kernel it caused no end of problems, but for completely other reasons I got the 2.6.14 kernel from cooker, and it's sorted it right out. I used mandriva 2006 supplied driver both times. Maybe someone else can say whether it's advisible to use try cooker kernel though. Previously I would get card not working, lock-ups after about 2 hours, and drakroam always said the signal was crap - all of these are now fixed, no more ndiswrapper for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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