rt2500 network no start

[Cyril]

In french.

I use Kubuntu Gutsy with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
My network card is a RaLink RT2500 802.11g

network not start.

My dmesg :

  43.293997] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_unregister
[ 43.294100] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_put
[ 43.294180] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_get
[ 43.294314] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_register
[ 43.341956] wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'

[ 44.749121] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
[ 44.749132] wlan0: authenticate with AP 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d
[ 44.754842] wlan0: RX authentication from 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
[ 44.754847] wlan0: authenticated
[ 44.754853] wlan0: associate with AP 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d
[ 44.764602] wlan0: authentication frame received from 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d, but not in authenticate state - ignored
[ 44.952945] wlan0: associate with AP 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d
[ 45.152865] wlan0: associate with AP 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d
[ 45.352755] wlan0: association with AP 2a:dc:e6:8e:b7:2d timed out

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

I had a similar problem here, using the default rt2500pci driver. I found that my Belkin RT2500-based PCI card would not see or connect to any wireless points unless I pulled out my wired Ethernet card (leaving the wireless as the only network interface). After this, NetworkManager would be able to see and connect to networks, but I could not successfully configure a wireless network manually. The solution is to configure /etc/network/interfaces with the following:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        pre-up ifconfig wlan0 down
        wpa-driver wext
        wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
        wpa-proto WPA
        wpa-ssid <ssid>
        wpa-psk <passphrase>
        pre-up sleep 20
        pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up

Note that the passphrase is stored in clear text, which is a potential security problem. Also, moving between a NetworkManager-managed connection to a manually-defined one requires a reboot.

[BigBoy_PDB (bigboy-pdb)]

Sridhar Dhanapalan, I'm guessing that you got that solution from my post on Ubuntu Forums. It has been edited to explain how you can avoid the issue where group and other users can read the password. You may want to post something there if you have an Ubuntu Forums account:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587727

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

BigBoy_PDB, I got the /etc/network/interfaces entry from your post. Sorry for not crediting you, as I consulted many sources and lost track of where each piece of information was from.

Other than that, the rest was ascertained from my own experimentations. The most important thing for me was to pull out all other network cards, otherwise the rt2500 would not see any wireless networks.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

Also, I am aware that I can chmod /etc/network/interfaces, but I haven't done so for fear of breaking other things which might need to read it.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan (sridhar)]

"The most important thing for me was to pull out all other network cards, otherwise the rt2500 would not see any wireless networks."

BTW, I've tested this on two different machines, with identical results. It appears that the RT2500 doesn't tolerate additional network interfaces for some reason.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Can you guys try this for me:

wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_2.6.22-14.40UNRELEASED_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_2.6.22-14.40UNRELEASED_i386.deb
sudo reboot

[Allard Hoeve (allard)]

Tim,

Thanks! This at least solved the module loading problem for me.

> Oct 24 21:40:53 allard kernel: [ 447.067046] usb 8-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
> Oct 24 21:40:53 allard kernel: [ 447.358079] usb 8-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Oct 24 21:40:53 allard kernel: [ 447.398117] idVendor = 0xb05, idProduct = 0x1706
> Oct 24 21:40:53 allard kernel: [ 447.398449] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2570

Configuring the network remains a problem, but at least nog I don't have kernel error messages anymore :)

Regards,

Allard

[John McCain (mccainj)]

Just stopping in to report the same problem. Tim Gardner's update worked for me.

Thanks.

[Rafael Muñoz Rodríguez (rmunozrodriguez)]

It doesn't worked for me using a Conceptronic C54RU USB Wireless Adapter :(

[perriman (chuchiperriman)]

The Tim update works for me!! Thanks a lot.

I have a pci card with ralink rt2561/rt61.

[perriman (chuchiperriman)]

Ops, a new problem... Now the pci card detects my network like 802.11b instead of 802.11g.

I have tested with a laptop (with another chipset) and it detects 802.11g correctly.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Fixed MODULE_ALIAS in iwlwifi.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Gutsy lum 14.38 is in -proposed.

[Marty (marty-supine)]

> Tim Gardner wrote on 2007-10-25:
>
> wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_2.6.22-14.40UNRELEASED_i386.deb

for those using other cpu architectures have a look in https://launchpad.net/~superm1/+archive

[Aapo Rantalainen (aapo-rantalainen)]

http://people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_2.6.22-14.40UNRELEASED_i386.deb
saved my day. Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.1g

[AmilaSK (amila-sk)]

http://people.ubuntu.com/~rtg/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-14-generic_2.6.22-14.40UNRELEASED_i386.deb

Worked for me. Network adapter ASUS WL-167G
Earlier I've tried other ways & ndiswrapper didn't work after update it's simply worked detecting as rausb0
Thanks!

[zacman (jzacman)]

for Wireles-G adapter
v4
Wusb54g blue dongle with antena
rt2500
rt2500usb

stops working after few seconds
then I found this solution and here are the drivers for windowsx64 that you might need

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bXHu5erHAb7OTZO3Qf0TD65uO6wOxhjB/view?usp=sharing

and tutorial

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=564419