I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
Emmett
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09-02-2011, 05:10 AM
Barry Brimer
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> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
>
> Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
>
> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
>
> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
What is the output of iwconfig?
What is the output of ifconfig -a
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09-02-2011, 04:45 PM
Emmett Culley
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On 09/01/2011 10:10 PM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>
>> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
>>
>> Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
>>
>> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
>>
>> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
>
> What is the output of iwconfig?
>
> What is the output of ifconfig -a
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[root@sbbusx ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
Now I am thinking that perhaps the driver doesn't see the new hardware. I'll try it with the adapter removed.
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09-02-2011, 04:46 PM
Ned Slider
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On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote:
> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
>
> Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
>
> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
>
> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
>
> Emmett
Hi Emmett,
Are you sure that's the right driver?
My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680
chipset. See here:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta
Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following
command (all one line):
for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }');
do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done
Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with
support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the
NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services)
and let NetworkManager control the device.
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09-02-2011, 05:15 PM
Robert Heller
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At Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:46:24 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote:
> > I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
> >
> > Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
> >
> > I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
> >
> > Emmett
>
> Hi Emmett,
>
> Are you sure that's the right driver?
>
> My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680
> chipset. See here:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta
>
> Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following
> command (all one line):
>
> for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }');
> do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done
>
> Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with
> support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the
> NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services)
> and let NetworkManager control the device.
Another thing to check: *Most* wireless cards also need firmware, which
is not always included with the drivers, due to various copyright / IP
issues. Without the firmware, the driver won't fully initialize and not
create the device.
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09-02-2011, 05:33 PM
Emmett Culley
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On 09/02/2011 09:46 AM, Ned Slider wrote:
> On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
>>
>> Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
>>
>> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
>>
>> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?
>>
>> Emmett
>
> Hi Emmett,
>
> Are you sure that's the right driver?
>
> My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680
> chipset. See here:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta
>
> Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following
> command (all one line):
>
> for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }');
> do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done
>
> Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with
> support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the
> NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services)
> and let NetworkManager control the device.
>
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Yup, looks like I am trying to load the wrong driver. I assumed that if the driver loaded it found the hardware.
Also, this is a specialized server, so network manager is not an option. Plus, the wireless card will be configured as an access point and I don't believe NM will allow me ot configure it that way.
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09-02-2011, 07:44 PM
Ned Slider
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On 02/09/11 18:33, Emmett Culley wrote:
> Yup, looks like I am trying to load the wrong driver. I assumed that if the driver loaded it found the hardware.
>
> [root@bus ~]# for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done
> 01:00.0 "Network controller" "RaLink" "RT2860" "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Device 130f"
> 01:00.0 0280: 1814:0781
> 02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82574L Gigabit Network Connection" "Super Micro Computer Inc" "Device 10d3"
> 02:00.0 0200: 8086:10d3
> 03:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82574L Gigabit Network Connection" "Super Micro Computer Inc" "Device 10d3"
> 03:00.0 0200: 8086:10d3
>
> I'll get the correct driver.
>
> Also, this is a specialized server, so network manager is not an option. Plus, the wireless card will be configured as an access point and I don't believe NM will allow me ot configure it that way.
>
> Emmett
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