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HI

Iam a new user to mageia(though not new to linux and have used other distros on the same box) and i just installed it from the DVD-i586.Iam trying to configure the Wifi connection

I have a RALINK RT2561/RT 61 Rev B 802.11 g card and i manually installed the rt61-firmware-1.2-4.mga1.noarch.rpm from mageia package site.I tried to configure using MCC using DHCP as well as by specifying IP address.Whenever i use NDISWRAPPER the system says the network is up but i cannot ping to my gateway and no internet.I tried using native linux driver and conenctivity test failed and netwrok was not even up as this point.

Iam not sure whether my steps are correct and is there any way i can configure internet using the native linux drivers


Thanks in advance for your help/
Dharani

Hi,

I have found that sometimes RT2651 hardware causes the loading of multiple wireless kernel modules. You don't say whether your network interface is PCI or a USB dongle.

If this is the problem you are experiencing then it is a case of removing the erroneous kernel modules by blacklisting them.

Regards,
Neil Darlow

Thanks for your reply.

Solved.
I found an updated kernel in the dvd and installed it.Installed various DHCP packages.Configured Wifi with open wep from the network manager and had a proper wifi configured.I had problem pinging the gateway then used routeadd to add the gateway.Bingo! now i have a working wifi and an Happy mageia user.