[rt2500] CNet CWP-854 network card not working in installer

[Tor Harald Thorland]

Tryed to install latest Dapper daily build on my home computer, but it fails to find ethernet card.

Wireless Card: CNet CWP-854 with RT2560F Chipset.

I have seen reported several places that this card works under linux. It might be that it is working on a already installed system, but not on a new install.

[Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen)]

So, the same computer is working with windows.
It is No encryption. Gateway has IP 192.168.132.20 Subnet 255.255.255.0
Access Point is named: Strigen Access Point

I tryed to install Dapper, even if it didn't find the network card, and guess what.. When I rebooted, the card did show up in the device manager.

I then tryed to configure it with static IP, and DHCP (I normally use dhcp), but none of them works.

Below is some various outputs.

tortho@hjemme1:~$ iwlist ra0 scanning
ra0 Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:0D:54:9B:BF:E3
                    Mode:Managed
                    ESSID:"3Com"
                    Encryption key:off
                    Channel:11
                    Quality:0/100 Signal level:-90 dBm Noise level:-196 dBm

tortho@hjemme1:~$ dmesg | grep rt
[4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000)
[4294671.058000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[4294671.863000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[4294671.866000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[4294672.241000] PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[4294672.242000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[4294672.242000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[4294672.242000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[4294672.253000] Using IPI Shortcut mode
[4294672.253000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
[4294673.560000] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
[4294676.448000] hda: cache flushes not supported
[4294676.878000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294676.979000] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294677.080000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[4294677.427000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[4294677.675000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4294683.760000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[4294683.793000] agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
[4294683.797000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
[4294684.461000] matrox_w1 0000:01:00.0: Matrox G400 GPIO transport layer for 1-wire.
[4294684.492000] rt2500 1.1.0 BETA3 2005/07/31 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
[4294685.127000] sda: unknown partition table
[4294685.193000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[4294685.200000] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device
[4294685.200000] ftdi_sio 1-2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[4294685.200000] usb 1-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[4294685.200000] drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: v1.4.3:USB FTDI Serial Converters Driver
[4294685.763000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
[4294685.763000] parport0: irq 7 detected
[4294685.846000] lp0: using parport0 (polling).
[4294688.240000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[4294699.238000] ra0 (WE) : Driver using old /proc/net/wireless support, please fix driver !
[4294701.211000] hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedComm...

[elhumano (cyberhumano)]

I have the same problem but my wireless card is a:
CNet CWP-854 with a RT2561T chip
Drivers from Ralinktech have been Updated 2006/04/25
maybe this new ver. works fine....
new ver. (1.0.4.0)
old ver .(1.0.3.0)

http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Tor:
Your issue appears to be that your card isn't bound to the right essid (in your output it says "Strigen Access Point" but your iwlist only shows "3Com". What is the essid of your access point and does it have broadcast beacons turned off?

[Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen)]

The issue is not the Access pont thing... The main problem, wich I reported here is that the installer does NOT find the card at all.... That it shows up afterwards, and that it might be possible in some way or another to get it installed is not really that interesting... The reason is that people with less experience, will not install at all if they encounter this "bug"..

But, thanks for the input, My access point essid is: Strigen Access Point
The broadcast is turned on, the linux computer connected to it is set up with DHCP ans so on... It is working on my other 2 computers, with Windows XP, and Dapper/win XP on the other.

[Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen)]

I have now solved this one.
I changed my access point from channel 12 and down to 6.
Then iwlist scan did show my access point, my computer connected, and did got an ip adr. through dhcp...

Then the big question is.. why doesn't this card work under ubuntu on channel 12. I have another laptop, wich worked fine with ubuntu on channel 12. The trouble machine does also work on channel 12 with windows....

[alpo (alpo)]

Ubuntu (or linux) not working with rtXXXX cards in some channels could be caused by incorrect locale settings. Channels allowed by the current locale settings of the card can be viewed with:

iwconfig <interface> freq

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has had no activity for a considerable period. This is a check to see if there is still interest in investigating this bug report.

[Tor Harald Thorland (linux-strigen)]

I don't have dapper anymore.... but this card works on xubuntu hardy alpha 6.... with kernel 2.6.24-12 generic... without any modifications..

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing: fixed on later releases.