[Bug 483927] New: RT2860 wireless driver does not work on MEDION S2210
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User maiku.fabian@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c437959 Summary: RT2860 wireless driver does not work on MEDION S2210 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: maiku.fabian@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ja; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6 I am aware that bug#437959 claims that the rt2860 drivers should work on openSUSE 11.1. But it doesn’t work on my Medion Akoya notebook. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to configure wireless network on the MEDION S2210. It doesn’t matter whether one chooses "traditional method with ifup" in YaST2 and tries to setup the wireless network with YaST2 or wether one tries Networkmanager. Trying to manually setup the wireless network with "ifup", "ifconfig", "iwconfig", ... doesn’t work either. Actual Results: According to ifconfig the interface is up. If one tries to get an IP via DHCP, the interface does not get an IP. After setting a fixed IP manually, one can see that RX packets and TX packets count up in the output of ifconfig when one tries to use the interface. RX bytes also count up but TX bytes remains 0. iwconfig shows the ESSID always as the empty string. Setting it with iwconfig is not possible. Networkmanager/YaST2 apparently couldn’t set it either. iwconfig shows the bitrate as 1 Mb/s. This can be changed with iwconfig but it doesn’t help. Expected Results: Wireless network should have worked. I can confirm what is written at http://de.opensuse.org/Sparklan_wmir-215gn If I download the rt2860sta_EEEPC-1.7.1.rm.0.src.rpm from the forum mentioned, recompiled for my system and installed, wireless worked flawless. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Is there any hope to make this work out of the box for all machines with the Ralink rt2860?
Not sure. Drivers in staging are Greg's domain. Greg? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Axel Köllhofer
EEEPC-reduce-debug-output.patch
irrelevant.
I found this patch in a package for 1.7.0.0 (in a third paty Repo for Fedora IIRC), a comment about this patch stated, that otherwise driver ist very "noisy" writing lots of debug-messages into system log, but I don't really know, if it is also needed for Version 1.7.1.1.
rt2860sta_EEEPC-convert-devicename-to-wlanX.diff
As the name of this patch says, it only changes the device name from "ra0" to "wlan0". Not important. In fact I removed this patch from the
rpm Yes, that's the only purpose of this patch, the reason is simple. The "enhanced legacy"-drivers from the serialmonkey project for older ralnik-cards also changed interface names from "raX" to "wlanX" in their drivers some time ago to use "standard" names for WLAN devices. The second reason (although I am not 100% sure, if it was not a user's fault); in another thread (also a german forum) a user reported problems with YaST automatically creating a device-file "ifcfg-ra0" (he also stated, that Networkmanager didn't find the interface correctly). http://www.linuxforen.de/forums/showthread.php?t=256207&page=2 And as practically all WLAN-interfaces use the standard naming scheme (ethX or wlanX), I thought it might be a good idea anyway. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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As I am the person "guilty" for that package, I would like to add a few extra comments.
Heh, no problem. Can you verify that all of the changes you have made to the driver are now included in the upstream driver in the kernel.org tree? That way there aren't these kinds of problems in the future. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #13 from Axel Köllhofer
Therefore, the difference which makes it work must be in the tarball. Where does this tarball come from? From Ralink? I don't know.
To clear that up, there was never an official release of this version by Ralink on their DL-page here: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html In fact, I searched for quite some time for that 1.7.1.1-tarball and found it here: http://ftp.takhis.net/arch/rt2860/ The file rt-fix.patch.bz2 also contains the changes I put into the debug-output.patch. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #14 from Axel Köllhofer
The most interesting difference is the massive changes to include/firmware.h made for 1.7.1.1, but missing from 1.8.0.0. This likely means that both v1.7.0.0 and v1.8.0.0 may never have been truly designed for the eeepc's hardware.
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