[Bug 212207] New: rt2500 card dosn't work
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 Summary: rt2500 card dosn't work Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Alpha 5 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bodo.bauer@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de While YaST detects my RT2500 wlan card and lets me configure it, it doesn't get a connection to the AP. Checking the device with iwconfig, it seems taht neiterh SSID, nor WEP keys are set, which may be the reason why there is a problem... (BTW, on a Ubuntu 6.06 system, this card works without any problem) -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 aj@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |jg@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED ------- Comment #1 from jg@novell.com 2006-10-13 04:11 MST ------- Ubuntu 6.06 probably comes with the old driver. OpenSUSE has already the successor of that driver, but it's unfortunately not complete yet. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
uname -a Linux ferrari 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:57:42 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux bb@ferrari:~ [506] modinfo rt2500 filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-amd64-k8/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2500/rt2500.ko
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 ------- Comment #2 from bodo.bauer@novell.com 2006-10-13 04:33 MST ------- You're probably right. This is from the Ubuntu system: bb@ferrari:~ [505] license: GPL description: Ralink RT2500 802.11g WLAN driver 1.1.0 CVS 2005/07/10 author: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com srcversion: 87483C74300BD5B978A24E4 alias: pci:v00001814d00000201sv*sd*bc*sc*i* depends: vermagic: 2.6.15-27-amd64-k8 SMP preempt gcc-4.0 parm: debug:Enable level: accepted values: 1 to switch debug on, 0 to switch debug off. (int) parm: ifname:Network device name (default ra%d) (charp) But it works very well, which is what counts, right... -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 ------- Comment #3 from jg@novell.com 2006-10-13 04:58 MST ------- It's even the legacy version of the driver. "It works well" is probably a matter of opinion. These legacy Ralink drivers are not SMP safe, you may encounter system lockups. Besides that, they don't work with wpa_supplicant, that means no WPA support with ifup and no NetworkManager support at all. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 alberto.passalacqua@tin.it changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Alpha 5 |Beta 1 ------- Comment #4 from alberto.passalacqua@tin.it 2006-10-27 01:58 MST ------- I have problems too to connect to the access point. Setting the card to be activated using ifup at boot time, I get this error message: Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done eth0 device: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) No configuration found for eth0 unused wlan0 wlan0 configuration: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 command 'iwconfig wlan0 nick dimension4400' returned Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. wlan0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. waiting wmaster0 wmaster0 configuration: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 wmaster0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. waiting Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .done No IP is assigned to the card, which seems to appear both with the name of wmaster0 and wlan0. The ESSID seems properly assigned to wlan0, but it doesn't work. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 ------- Comment #5 from alberto.passalacqua@tin.it 2006-11-11 13:14 MST ------- The same problem is present in beta 2. The card is now seen as a wireless card in NM too, but it's unable to get an IP. The card works properly using ndiswrapper. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |matthias.andree@gmx.de ------- Comment #6 from jg@novell.com 2007-02-16 09:57 MST ------- *** Bug 230971 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 matthias.andree@gmx.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Normal |Critical Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Version|Beta 1 |Final Found By|Other |Customer ------- Comment #7 from matthias.andree@gmx.de 2007-02-16 10:11 MST ------- Regarding Comment #3: 1. SMP - well, my RT2500 card is in a UP machine, so I don't know. 2. WPA support is built into the driver and isn't difficult to set up. YaST never bothered to actually do that. (The whole YaST-and-ifup scripting is arcane, long-winding, insufficiently documented and fragile, and the YaST setup screens are counterintuitive, which probably warrants a separate bug.) At any rate, not providing any working drivers for this card is even less a solution than providing non-SMP drivers. Escalating to critical. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 jg@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Critical |Major ------- Comment #8 from jg@novell.com 2007-02-16 10:29 MST ------- WPA is built into the driver, but in a non-standard way. Implementing special support for a de-facto obsolete driver does not really make it on top of my to-do list. And if the "whole YaST-and-ifup scripting" is that broken for you, here is good news: there is NetworkManager, you can use this instead. I admit that the situation for Ralink users is not nice. But shipping a driver that is hard to maintain and may even lead to hard lockups is no solution either. For the brave ones there are drivers available in the build service as far as I know, although I never tried them. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 ------- Comment #9 from matthias.andree@gmx.de 2007-02-16 12:40 MST ------- I know upstream is in a state of transition between practically orphaned 1.1.0beta4 or CVS (there have been post-beta 4 fixes in CVS) and the not-yet-read 2.X stuff. I'm happy also with coercing the traditional driver to do WPA without YaST support for that matter (that's in fact what I did on the two 10.0 machines), but the bug at hand is a genuine regression from 10.0, where the obsolete lock-up-SMP class driver used to work nicely on a 10.0 UP machine. Oh, and incidentally, the driver has been working without a single hiccup in FreeBSD 6.1 out of the box. Perhaps Novell could evaluate if donating manpower, money or what else the RT2x00 developers need to get this damn thing working - at the end of the day, RaLink Tech in Taiwan are among the very few WLAN manufacturers to have provided sufficient documentation for a full open sourced driver... no NDA, no binary user-space junk as intel did, no binary modules as with so many other vendors, just docs... -- 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, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212207 ------- Comment #10 from jg@novell.com 2007-02-19 08:50 MST ------- The regression issue is a bit annoying, but as said we decided to not ship it (anymore) due to maintance reasons. FreeBSD has quite good wireless support, I also heard that. Although the situation in Linux is a little dull, there are efforts to improve the situation. I expect things to get noticeably better as soon as the d80211 stack (which is also used by the rt2x00 driver) made its way into the mainstream kernel. And I agree that Ralink is a good comunity player and I really regret we not capable of support Ralink products at the moment, but I'm confident that this is subject to change in the near 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, or are watching someone who is.
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