[Bug 483927] New: RT2860 wireless driver does not work on MEDION S2210

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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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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#c1 --- Comment #1 from Mike FABIAN 2009-03-10 11:19:00 MST --- Created an attachment (id=278541) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=278541) rt2860sta_EEEPC-1.7.1.rm.0.src.rpm I attach the source rpm which can be downloaded from http://www.pc-forum24.de/suse-treiber/10335-geloest-ralink-rt2860-unter-open... here for convenience because to download it from this forum a registration is needed. -- 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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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#c2 --- Comment #2 from Mike FABIAN 2009-03-10 11:55:46 MST --- I also tried to compile the latest version of the driver downloadable from Ralink myself (2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0.tar.bz2), this did not help. Then I tried to compile an older version from Ralink (2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2), this did not help either. Only with the 1.7.1.1_EeePC version (2008_0925_RT2860_LinuxSTA_v1.7.1.1_EeePC.tar.bz2 from the attached rpm) my wireless network worked. The attached rpm also contains a few patches but they are all trivial. In my opinion they have nothing to do with making the driver work. The rpm contains the patches: EEEPC-reduce-debug-output.patch irrelevant. EEEPC-rt_main_dev-2.6.26.diff EEEPC-sta_ioctl-2.6.27.diff only needed to make it compile with newer kernels, I had to make the same patches when I tried to compile 1.7.0.0 myself. 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 and my wireless network worked nevertheless. Therefore, the difference which makes it work must be in the tarball. Where does this tarball come from? From Ralink? I don't know. -- 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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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#c3 --- Comment #3 from Mike FABIAN 2009-03-10 12:45:37 MST --- By the way the diff between the 1.7.0.0 and the 1.7.1.1_EEEPC tarball is rather small. I’ll have a close look whether I can see something obvious tomorrow. -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User hschaa@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c4 --- Comment #4 from Helmut Schaa 2009-03-11 05:23:14 MST --- Huh, the firmware image is different between 1.7.0.0 and 1.7.1.1_EEEPC. Not sure if these are just trivial changes and apply to all devices or if they are specific to the device built into the EEEPC. -- 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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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#c5 --- Comment #5 from Mike FABIAN 2009-03-11 06:45:58 MST --- I don’t have an EEEPC but a Medion Akoya S2210. I.e. there are other devices besides the EEEPC where the driver included in openSUSE 11.1 doesn’t work. Is there any hope to make this work out of the box for all machines with the Ralink rt2860? -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User hschaa@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c6 Helmut Schaa changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |gregkh@novell.com Info Provider| |gregkh@novell.com --- Comment #6 from Helmut Schaa 2009-03-11 07:17:54 MST --- (In reply to comment #5)

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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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User gregkh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c7 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|gregkh@novell.com | --- Comment #7 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2009-03-11 09:42:07 MST --- Yes, I have a change for this driver to incorporate the "1.7.1.1_EEEPC" version, which ralink did without telling anyone (you would think that the 1.8 version of the driver would have had these changes in it, but no...) I'll work on adding this to the opensuse kernel this week. -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |gregkh@novell.com |ovo.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.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c8 Axel Köllhofer changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |AxelKoellhofer@web.de --- Comment #8 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 13:55:56 MST --- (in reply to comment #2) As I am the person "guilty" for that package, I would like to add a few extra comments. This is the Bugreport from Ubuntu launchpad, which gave me the idea of building this special EEE-PC Package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/210725

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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.

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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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User gregkh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c9 --- Comment #9 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2009-03-11 14:20:58 MST --- (In reply to comment #8)

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(in reply to comment #2)

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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c10 --- Comment #10 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 15:20:38 MST --- The changes in: EEEPC-rt_main_dev-2.6.26.diff EEEPC-sta_ioctl-2.6.27.diff certainly must have gone upstream, because they are necessary for building on kernel 2.6.26/2.6.27 or higher. The changes in EEEPC-reduce-debug-output.patch have not gone upstream and I cannot evaluate, if they would make sense. diff -Nur rt2860/rt_linux.h rt2860.new/rt_linux.h --- rt2860/rt_linux.h 2009-03-11 20:40:21.000000000 +0000 +++ rt2860/rt_linux.h 2009-03-11 20:55:26.000000000 +0000 @@ -325,10 +325,6 @@ #define DBGPRINT_RAW(Level, Fmt) \ { \ - if (Level <= RTDebugLevel) \ - { \ - printk Fmt; \ - } \ } #define DBGPRINT(Level, Fmt) DBGPRINT_RAW(Level, Fmt) The "rename"-Patch was more of a personal idea (also considering the problems one of the users in a german forum reported with interface-recognition in yaST, however, that was the only report I am aware of) and I never considered it to be something worth proposing as a change to the official tree (although I now somebody, who recently held a talk a google, where he reported, that one of google's main contributors to the kernel sent in spelling fixes :-)). The changes would be: diff -Nur rt2860.git/rt_linux.c rt2860.git.new/rt_linux.c --- rt2860.git/rt_linux.c 2009-03-11 20:40:21.000000000 +0000 +++ rt2860.git.new/rt_linux.c 2009-03-11 21:06:08.000000000 +0000 @@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ if (pAddr) pBufPtr += sprintf(pBufPtr, "(RT2860) STA(%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x) ", PRINT_MAC(pAddr)); else if (BssIdx < MAX_MBSSID_NUM) - pBufPtr += sprintf(pBufPtr, "(RT2860) BSS(ra%d) ", BssIdx); + pBufPtr += sprintf(pBufPtr, "(RT2860) BSS(wlan%d) ", BssIdx); else pBufPtr += sprintf(pBufPtr, "(RT2860) "); diff -Nur rt2860.git/rt_main_dev.c rt2860.git.new/rt_main_dev.c --- rt2860.git/rt_main_dev.c 2009-03-11 20:40:21.000000000 +0000 +++ rt2860.git.new/rt_main_dev.c 2009-03-11 21:12:29.000000000 +0000 @@ -816,10 +816,10 @@ { #ifdef MULTIPLE_CARD_SUPPORT if (pAd->MC_RowID >= 0) - sprintf(slot_name, "ra%02d_%d", pAd->MC_RowID, i); + sprintf(slot_name, "wlan%02d_%d", pAd->MC_RowID, i); else #endif // MULTIPLE_CARD_SUPPORT // - sprintf(slot_name, "ra%d", i); + sprintf(slot_name, "wlan%d", i); #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,24) @@ -852,10 +852,10 @@ { #ifdef MULTIPLE_CARD_SUPPORT if (pAd->MC_RowID >= 0) - sprintf(dev->name, "ra%02d_%d", pAd->MC_RowID, i); + sprintf(dev->name, "wlan%02d_%d", pAd->MC_RowID, i); else #endif // MULTIPLE_CARD_SUPPORT // - sprintf(dev->name, "ra%d", i); + sprintf(dev->name, "wlan%d", i); Status = NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS; } diff -Nur rt2860.git/rt_profile.c rt2860.git.new/rt_profile.c --- rt2860.git/rt_profile.c 2009-03-11 20:40:21.000000000 +0000 +++ rt2860.git.new/rt_profile.c 2009-03-11 21:12:29.000000000 +0000 @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ CipherAlg = CIPHER_WEP128; pAd->SharedKey[i][idx].CipherAlg = CipherAlg; - DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_TRACE, ("I/F(ra%d) Key%dStr=%s and type=%s\n", i, idx+1, keybuff, (KeyType == 0) ? "Hex":"Ascii")); + DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_TRACE, ("I/F(wlan%d) Key%dStr=%s and type=%s\n", i, idx+1, keybuff, (KeyType == 0) ? "Hex":"Ascii")); return 1; } else @@ -733,12 +733,12 @@ CipherAlg = CIPHER_WEP128; pAd->SharedKey[i][idx].CipherAlg = CipherAlg; - DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_TRACE, ("I/F(ra%d) Key%dStr=%s and type=%s\n", i, idx+1, keybuff, (KeyType == 0) ? "Hex":"Ascii")); + DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_TRACE, ("I/F(wlan%d) Key%dStr=%s and type=%s\n", i, idx+1, keybuff, (KeyType == 0) ? "Hex":"Ascii")); return 1; } else {//Invalid key length - DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_ERROR, ("I/F(ra%d) Key%dStr is Invalid key length! KeyLen = %ld!\n", i, idx+1, KeyLen)); + DBGPRINT(RT_DEBUG_ERROR, ("I/F(wlan%d) Key%dStr is Invalid key length! KeyLen = %ld!\n", i, idx+1, KeyLen)); return 0; } I will also attach those two patches. -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c11 --- Comment #11 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 15:23:02 MST --- Created an attachment (id=278950) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=278950) EEE-reduce-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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c12 --- Comment #12 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 15:28:25 MST --- Created an attachment (id=278951) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=278951) Changes raX to wlanX -- 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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c13 --- Comment #13 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 15:45:59 MST --- (In reply to comment #2)

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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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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483927#c14 --- Comment #14 from Axel Köllhofer 2009-03-11 16:01:57 MST --- Some more stuff I found considering this problem. http://bugs.gentoo.org/246025 http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=409362 This thread also contains diffs between version 1.7.0.0, 1.7.1.1 and 1.8.0.0 (Vendor Release).

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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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