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kernel 2.6.12.22 and belkin cardbus 2560 chip


Arne
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Hello Guys,

After I upgraded to kernel 2.6.12.22mdk. I am trying once again to get my Belkin 7010 with rt2560 chipset to work. The kernel have a rt2500 driver dated January 6 2006 and I hope this is a newer driver than the one in kernel 2.6.12-12.

 

Anyway when I insert the card and run dmesg I get:

rt2500: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.

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

 

What is the meaning of "unspecified taints kernel"??????

and what commands do I need to run to activate the card?????????????

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rt2500 is an open source, GPL'ed driver and shouldnt taint the kernel. that error shouldnt appear and is most likely a bug -- the module included with mandriva doesnt specify the license. this. That's fine, tainting the kernel doesnt change anything, it just sets a flag that a possibly non gpl module has been loaded -- no behaviour in the kernel is modified.

 

once you've loaded rt2500, you should be able to configure and connect to your wireless network with mandriva's built in tools.

 

James

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I try to get my card working without using ndiswrapper.

 

Some progress has been made:

"Network is up on interface ra0" and for the first time the light on the card turned on. There are 2 lights; one confirming the network is up and the second indicating wireless traffic (blinking continuesly).

But still cannot ping the router or the desktop. Can ping the card in the notebook.

 

I think it's something wrong with the setup. Here some info on it.

This the info on the card from MCC.

Vendor: RaLink

Description: Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card

Media class: NETWORK_OTHER

Module name: rt2500

Mac Address: 00:11:50:90:f7:05

Bus: PCI

Location on the bus: 5

[root@ast arne]# ifup ra0

Error for wireless request "Set NWID" (8B02) :

SET failed on device ra0 ; Operation not supported.

 

How to "set NWID" (8B02) even if set operation not supported it worked.

 

[root@ast arne]# iwlist ra0 scan

ra0 No scan results

[root@ast arne]# iwconfig ra0 essid 'linksys'

[root@ast arne]# iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

 

ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:off/any Nickname:"ast"

Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency=1 MHz Cell: 9E:55:3F:8D:D6:6D

Bit Rate=11 Mb/s

RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off

Encryption key:0860-7EE5-DB Security mode:open

Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0

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@ast arne]# ifconfig

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:90:F7:05

inet addr:10.0.0.5 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::211:50ff:fe90:f705/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:35 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:246 (246.0 B) TX bytes:3776 (3.6 KiB)

Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000

[root@ast network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-ra0

DEVICE=ra0

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=10.0.0.5 #Actually this should be 4 in the end but when I change it #trow back 10.0.0.0 and I think this is because the default #in route is occupied.

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

NETWORK=10.0.0.0 #I have set this to the correct 10.0.0.2 but it trows back 0

BROADCAST=10.0.0.255 #I have set this to 255.255.255.255 but it trows back this

ONBOOT=yes

HWADDR=00:11:50:90:f7:05

METRIC=10

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes #no

USERCTL=yes

WIRELESS_MODE=managed #Ad-hoc

WIRELESS_ESSID=linksys

WIRELESS_NWID=Ast

WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="open 08607ee5db" #Encryption is turned OFF on my AP

IPV6INIT=no

IPV6TO4INIT=no

PEERDNS=yes

 

Any advice on this??????

 

[root@ast network-scripts]# route

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 ra0

127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

default 10.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 ra0

 

This default is wrong I believe and I think this also prevent me from using 10.0.0.2 in my ifcfg-ra0.

 

Now I have alias ra0 rt2500 in modprobe.conf

Should I define an "alias ra0 wlan0" in modprobe.conf???????????

 

In modprobe.preload I have

nvram

sonypi

 

Any tip or advice will be highly appreciated.

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