I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies. Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required. I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found. Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created? Emmett
> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies. > > Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required. > > I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found. > > Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?What is the output of iwconfig? What is the output of ifconfig -a
On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote:> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies. > > Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device. I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device. I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required. > > I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found. > > Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created? > > EmmettHi Emmett, Are you sure that's the right driver? My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680 chipset. See here: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following command (all one line): for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services) and let NetworkManager control the device.