Guest Nik Nixon Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Hallo all! I have some troubles with my wireless card on my laptop. The machine is quite old- 366 mhz pentium 2, 128 MB RAM, 6.5 GB HD, 4 MB video. On that hardware I have Mandriva 2009 installed, with GNOME, but I use IceWM and it works fine. I have Edimax Wireless USB adapter- recognized from the system as Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN /in MCC/Network connections/. I installed rt73-firmware from the mandriva mirrors. Everything seems ok - [root@localhost ~]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 and lsmod | grep usb rt73usb 25472 0 rt2500usb 23040 0 rt2x00usb 13056 2 rt73usb,rt2500usb rt2x00lib 29312 3 rt73usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb mac80211 157212 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib usbcore 138096 11 cdc_wdm,cdc_acm,usb_storage,rt73usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb,isp1760,uhci_hcd,ohci_hc d,ehci_hcd by the way now cdc_wdm and cdc_acm are presented, because Im now connected via my cellphone and had to remove the wireless adapter- the laptop has only one USB port. But it seems that the system is recognized the wireless properly. The problems start, when I start drakroam, and try to connect to some network- I get in list one-two unencripted. When I click Connect in drakroam window, in terminal /I typed drakroam in root terminal, to see the error/ I have that: [root@localhost ~]# drakroam Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DBus/Binding/Connection.pm line 257. SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported Failed to kill daemon. (No such file or directory) SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 506. Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 506. Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 506. Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 506. Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 506. SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported SIOCETHTOOL: Operation not supported Then I fed off and kill drakroam. Can anyone of you to help me have my wireless working? Thanks in advance. p.p. The kernel is Linux localhost 2.6.27.7-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Dec 11 16:45:35 EST 2008 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) GNU/Linux [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nik Nixon Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 OK, it seems noone can help.. In that case, can someone tell me a GUI program for using/managing wireless connections- in order to avoid using drakroam? For GPRS connection via cellular phone I use a progam called gprsec /GPRS Easy Connect/ and it works great. Does anyone knows a similar GUI program for using wireless adapter? Thanks btw KDE-programs are not good fo my old laptop, I have no KDE, only GNOME and IceWM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nik Nixon Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Solved, wifi-radar works fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Balpo Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Solved, wifi-radar works fine Great! How did you integrate it? Was it solved just by installing wifi-radar? Thanks in advance. Balpo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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