RT2800 Wireless b/g/n PCI adapter setup
Posted: 2011/02/18 15:48:15
Hi, thank you for having me on the forums.
Can anyone help me configure the RT2800 Wireless b/g/n PCI adapter that I've just bought? I tried to follow the readme in the drivers provided by the manufacturer (Edimax), compiled the drivers (rt2860sta.ko) and the device actually comes up as "ra0", but when I try to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ra0, I get a bunch of errors saying it cannot set the essid, channel and basically everything else...
I am using Centos 5.5 x86-64, kernel version 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5, on a fresh install - no current wireless drivers installed. I had to change my system drive anyway and I wanted to do this on a clean slate. The device itself is the last one in the output below.
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# lspci -m
00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Intel Corporation" "4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller" -r03 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:02.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Intel Corporation" "4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" -r03 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1b.0 "Audio device" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1c.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1" -r01 "" ""
00:1c.1 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2" -r01 "" ""
00:1d.0 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.1 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.2 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.3 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.7 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller" -r01 -p20 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1e.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801 PCI Bridge" -re1 -p01 "" ""
00:1f.0 "ISA bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.1 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller" -r01 -p8a "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.2 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller" -r01 -p8f "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.3 "SMBus" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Atheros Communications" "Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" -rc0 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
03:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." "RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet" -r10 "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." "RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet"
03:01.0 "Network controller" "RaLink" "RT2800 802.11n PCI" "Edimax Computer Co." "Unknown device 7728"
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[url=http://pastebin.centos.org/36853]Full system details.[/url]
I wonder if I should have posted under "Hardware" instead...
Thank you for your valuable time.
Can anyone help me configure the RT2800 Wireless b/g/n PCI adapter that I've just bought? I tried to follow the readme in the drivers provided by the manufacturer (Edimax), compiled the drivers (rt2860sta.ko) and the device actually comes up as "ra0", but when I try to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ra0, I get a bunch of errors saying it cannot set the essid, channel and basically everything else...
I am using Centos 5.5 x86-64, kernel version 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5, on a fresh install - no current wireless drivers installed. I had to change my system drive anyway and I wanted to do this on a clean slate. The device itself is the last one in the output below.
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# lspci -m
00:00.0 "Host bridge" "Intel Corporation" "4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller" -r03 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:02.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Intel Corporation" "4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" -r03 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1b.0 "Audio device" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1c.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1" -r01 "" ""
00:1c.1 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2" -r01 "" ""
00:1d.0 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.1 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.2 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.3 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1d.7 "USB Controller" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller" -r01 -p20 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1e.0 "PCI bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801 PCI Bridge" -re1 -p01 "" ""
00:1f.0 "ISA bridge" "Intel Corporation" "82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.1 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller" -r01 -p8a "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.2 "IDE interface" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller" -r01 -p8f "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
00:1f.3 "SMBus" "Intel Corporation" "N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller" -r01 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Atheros Communications" "Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" -rc0 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." "Unknown device 7592"
03:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." "RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet" -r10 "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." "RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet"
03:01.0 "Network controller" "RaLink" "RT2800 802.11n PCI" "Edimax Computer Co." "Unknown device 7728"
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[url=http://pastebin.centos.org/36853]Full system details.[/url]
I wonder if I should have posted under "Hardware" instead...
Thank you for your valuable time.