[SOLVED] WiFi will not connect

[adriano]

Hi,

I have read a lot of glowing reports about Mageia and decided to try it. I have successfully installed it on a 16 GB memory stick and it runs happily (as far as I can tell) on it. However I have been unable to get my WiFi card to work. With Ubuntu I had to use NDISGTK and assumed that I would have to use NDWRAPPER here as well. I opened a terminal and typed ndiswrapper -i path-to-the-driver.inf and got a message saying that it was already installed. I then clicked on the network icon and selected "Configure Network" and went through each step for wlan0 but at the end there was a message saying "Unable to find ndiswrapper interface". I assume (rightly or wrongly?) that the 'ndiswrapper interface' is the WiFi card (or isn't it?)

Typing lspci gives: 04:02.0 Network controller : RaLink Device 3060. If that is the 'ndiswrapper interface' why can't the system find it and how can I make it find it? In Network Center there is only eth1 displayed

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[isadora]

Very welcome to the Mageia-forum adriano!!!

As for many other people before you, problems with Wifi are not unfamiliar.
Give you the following links, hoping it will bring you closer to a solution:

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=419&p=3593&hilit=wifi#p3593
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=126&p=2730&hilit=wifi#p2730
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=593&p=3808&hilit=wireless#p3808

[doktor5000]

Could you please post the exact lspci output? That is no valid pci id.

Don't know about Ralink 3060 driver support, but:
If you really want to use ndiswrapper, have you run ndiswrapper -m to create a modprobe alias
for your wlan interface so the driver gets loaded automatically on bootup? Did you load ndiswrapper
with modprobe ndiswrapper? The network configuration has issues for quite some time with loading ndiswrapper.
If that doesn't work, then please show the output of ndiswrapper -l

[adriano]

hello isadora and doktor5000,

Thanks for your replies. Yes, doktor5000 I did do ndiswrapper -m but it hasn't worked.

Here is the output from lspci and ndiswrapper -l :_

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
04:02.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 3060
[root@localhost chris]# ndiswrapper -l
rt2860 : invalid driver!

I do not know why it is saying "invalid driver" because that is the correct driver for the card. It works correctly in Windows and also in Ubuntu. You say "if you really want to use ndiswrapper...."; is there an alternative to it. It had to be used in Ubuntu and I believe it has to be used with Fedora

[doktor5000]

Well, i'm not into Ralink, but at least they offer a driver for linux: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
It's the seventh from the beginning. But still i've not enough information about the device itself. Could you please
show the output of

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lspci -nnk

BTW: Would be nice if you would use Code-Tags for terminal output and stuff like that.
When you paste the output, mark it, and press the Code-Button, directly over the forum editor.

[doktor5000]

Is it possible that you have a D-Link DWA-525 wifi dongle?
And regarding to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi ... and_rt2870
the driver should be in-kernel since quite some time. This proves it:

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modinfo rt2860sta
[...]
description:    RT2860/RT3090 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
[...]

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modinfo rt2870sta
[...]
description:    RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
[...]

So there is support for Ralink 3070 and 3090, but not for 3060.
The Ralink driver compiles fine, so you might try that one.

Uncompress it, follow the readme and as far as you have installed the according
kernel-devel package to your running kernel and make/gcc, it should compiled.
Tested it and it went up to the installation.

[doktor5000]

But what is also baffling me is this: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci#supported
So please post the

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lspci -nnk

output first.

[adriano]

Hello again doktor5000,
Here is the output from lspci nnk

[root@localhost chris]# lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub [8086:2770] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port [8086:2771] (rev 02)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915, intelfb
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2776] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev e1)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:27de] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
Kernel modules: snd-intel8x0
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
Kernel modules: leds-ss4200, iTCO_wdt, intel-rng
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller [8086:27df] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: piix, ata_piix
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell OptiPlex GX620 [1028:01ad]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
04:02.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink Device [1814:3060]
Subsystem: Edimax Computer Co. Device [1432:7711]
[root@localhost chris]#

The WiFi card is a PCI card, not a dongle and as you can see it is an Edimax card not a D-Link

[adriano]

Hello yet again doktor5000,
I have just done that 'modinfo' command and here is the output:-

[root@localhost chris]# modinfo rt2860sta
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop586-1.mga/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko.gz
version: 2.1.0.0
alias: rt3090sta
license: GPL
description: RT2860/RT3090 Wireless Lan Linux Driver
author: Jett Chen <jett_chen@ralinktech.com>
firmware: rt3090.bin
firmware: rt2860.bin
srcversion: C22EE7282F9A519D7E9A764
alias: pci:v00001814d00003092sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00003091sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00003090sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007768sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007748sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007738sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007727sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007758sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007728sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001432d00007708sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001A3Bd00001059sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00000701sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00000681sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias: pci:v00001814d00000601sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends: crc-ccitt
staging: Y
vermagic: 2.6.38.7-desktop586-1.mga SMP mod_unload modversions 586
parm: mac:rt28xx: wireless mac addr (charp)

It is strange that it is there but won't work

[doktor5000]

Please open up 2 terminals, in the first, run the following as root:

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tailf /var/log/messages

In the second, while the first is running, load the following module:

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modprobe rt2800pci

Post the output of both here.

[adriano]

hello doktor5000,

Sorry this is a bit late; I had to go out last night' Here is the output from the two commands:

[root@localhost chris]# tailf /var/log/messages
Jul 5 10:26:28 localhost mgaapplet[1312]: running: urpmi.update --update
Jul 5 10:27:33 localhost mgaapplet[1312]: Packages are up to date
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Jul 5 10:35:03 localhost kernel: cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

and here is the output from the modprobe command:

[root@localhost chris]# modprobe rt2800pci
[root@localhost chris]#

There isn't any output; is that what you expected? And should it have been rt 2860 rather than rt 2800?

[doktor5000]

Well, no message is good message, as one of my linux teachers used to say
Please read again: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci#supported
So could you please show me the output of ifconfig and iwconfig, after you loaded the rt2800pci driver?

[adriano]

hello doktor5000,

I have fallen at the first hurdle in that I cant find sources.list in order to add

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

to it.

On top of that, I am not able to use the ethernet cable for the next 24 hours as its owner wants to use it himself and the router only has one ethernet port. So I won't be able to do any more about the WiFi until tomorrow afternoon.

I am just writing this to let you know I haven't given up, in case you were wondering why I haven't replied.

[doktor5000]

hello doktor5000,

I have fallen at the first hurdle in that I cant find sources.list in order to add

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

Sorry. I only linked there so you could see that your chipset should in general
be supported by that driver. Maybe you don't know, but Debian is another, different linux
distribution with different package management and everything. Maybe the only bigger similarity
between Debain and Mageia is that both are community-based.

So try this, like i posted earlier:

So could you please show me the output of ifconfig and iwconfig, after you loaded the rt2800pci driver?

So essentially you do this as root:

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modprobe rt2800pci
ifconfig
iwconfig

If you see a wireless interface like wlan0, you can try to configure your network interface through MCC.
(MCC meaning Mageia Control Center )

[adriano]

Hello doktor5000,

Here are the results (or,rather, non-results) of the commands:-
[quote]
[chris@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost chris]# modprobe rt2800pci
[root@localhost chris]# ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:57:20:AD
inet addr:192.168.1.42 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:fe57:20ad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:470 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:56
TX packets:459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:498634 (486.9 KiB) TX bytes:56795 (55.4 KiB)
Interrupt:16

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@localhost chris]#
[root@localhost chris]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.
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[doktor5000]

Well, maybe then you really need the driver from Ralink directly,
so as i posted already: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
The 7th driver would be for your device.

Then you need to install task-c++-devel and kernel-desktop-devel-latest to have all the needed packages
for compiling the driver. Then read the README_STA_pci that comes with the driver.
Should be as easy as running make and let it compile.

[adriano]

I tried installing those packages but in both cases got the message "No package named kernel-desktop-devel-latest" and the same message with the task-c++-devel.
After today, I won't have internet access for a few days, so you won't be hearing from me unless I can get the WiFi working

[doktor5000]

Ah, well, my fault. You need software repositories already setup and internet access.
Or you should be able to install them if you installed from the DVD, they should be on it.

[adriano]

Hello doktor5000,

I have installed those two sets of software but running 'make' has produced an error message near the end (I think) of its job . I am using a different computer to write this because the ethernet connection has stopped working on the one with Mageia.

It gets to the point where it says

make -c /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop586-1.mga/build/SUBDIRS=/home/chris/DPO_RT3562_3592_3962_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217/os/linux modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga/build: No such file or directory. Stop
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

As I said earlier, I will not have internet access for the next few days during which I shall "play" with this. I hope it will be OK to contact you again when it all ends in tears next week?

[doktor5000]

Yes, no problem, that's what we're here for.
Could you please show me the output of

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rpm -qa |grep kernel

Either i did this with kernel-source already installed, because that is, what it's searching for,
or you're still missing some packages.

[adriano]

Hi,

rpm -qa grep | kernel produces this output:

kernel-firmware-extra-20110517-1.mga1
kernel-firmware-20110314-2.mga1
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1
kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.7.-1.mga-1-1.mga1
kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.7-1.mga-1-1.mga1

Is it missing anything?

[Ken-Bergen]

Hi,

rpm -qa grep | kernel produces this output:

kernel-firmware-extra-20110517-1.mga1
kernel-firmware-20110314-2.mga1
kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1
kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.7.-1.mga-1-1.mga1
kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.7-1.mga-1-1.mga1

Is it missing anything?

You have a mismatch, either install kernel-desktop-latest or kernel-desktop586-devel-latest

[doktor5000]

Yeah, sorry my fault. Didn't pay attention that you had kernel-desktop586 installed.
Please remove kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.38.7-1.mga1 and kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.7.-1.mga-1-1.mga1 and install kernel-desktop586-devel-latest.

[adriano]

Hello Ken-Bergen,

Many thanks for your reply. I have done that and it all works now.