[gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[Richard Watson]

Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC. 
I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot).

# lspci reports
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11

net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to 
/etc/portage/package.keywords

So I
# emerge ralink-rt61
# slocate rt61.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/net/rt61.ko
# modprobe rt61
FATAL: Module rt61 not found

What should I do next? Do I need to recompile my kernel and if so are there 
any options I need to ensure are selected (or not)?

Many thanks, Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:23, Richard Watson wrote:
> Hi - I'm trying to get a D-Link PCI network card running on my desktop PC.
> I've installed it and it runs under Windows XP (I dual boot).
>
> # lspci reports
> 0000:01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11
>
> net-wireless/ralink-rt61 was masked so I added to
> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> So I
> # emerge ralink-rt61
> # slocate rt61.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/net/rt61.ko
> # modprobe rt61
> FATAL: Module rt61 not found
>
> What should I do next? Do I need to recompile my kernel and if so are there
> any options I need to ensure are selected (or not)?
>
> Many thanks, Richard

Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds 
like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[Richard Watson]

>> # modprobe rt61
>> FATAL: Module rt61 not found
>>
> Is 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 the kernel you are currently running? It sounds 
> like /usr/src/linux is pointing to the wrong kernel source.

# ls -la /usr/src/linux
/usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8

Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Thursday 22 February 2007 02:53, Richard Watson wrote:

(I'm just going to assume you've got the right package / module; I don't 
know 
anything about it particular hardware and your choices seem appropriate.)

> So I
> # emerge ralink-rt61
> # slocate rt61.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.17-gentoo-r8/net/rt61.ko
> # modprobe rt61
> FATAL: Module rt61 not found
>
> What should I do next?

ls -l /usr/src/linux
uname -r

(I think it's likely you never fixed up your /usr/src/linux symlink and 
ralink-rt61 is being compiled against the wrong kernel.)

You might consider butting something like:
ln -snf linux-"$(uname -r)" /usr/src/linux
in local.start to fix up your kernel symlink on each boot.  (Though, I hate 
to 
think what that would do if /usr/src/linux was a directory rather than a 
symlink.)

> Do I need to recompile my kernel and if so are there 
> any options I need to ensure are selected (or not)?

Probably not, but if you are actually running 2.6.17-gentoo-r8, then I'll 
need 
to see the output of dmesg around the time you modprobed rt61.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless PCI Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11 - Driver Problem

[Richard Watson]

> Yes it's pointing to the correct kernel source - Thanks

I recompiled my kernel and modprobe rt61 worked. I now have an interface 
that come up called ra0.

The following worked for me:

Added rt61 to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

# ln -s net.lo net.ra0

I edited /etc/conf.d/net
modules= ( "iwconfig" )
config_rao=( "null" )

# rc-update add net.ra0 default

Set ra0 to "null" because ra0 won't come up as dhcpc until configured.

# /etc/init.d/net.rao start
# iwlist ra0 scanning
gave me channel and essid to use

I created a script /root/scripts/d_link_rt61_up.sh
iwlist ra0 scanning
iwconfig ra0 essid [essid]
iwconfig ra0 channel 11
dhcpcd ra0

Added /root/scripts/d_link_rt61_up.sh to /etc/conf.d/local.start

Everything comes up no on boot.

Thank you everybody 

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