Getting ralink driver working?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.

I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is:

$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]

The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is supported by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver says to install wireless-tools and firmware-ralink. I did this. But wireless still doesn't show up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that any wireless thing exists. If i try to load module directly:

$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

even though firmware-ralink is installed.

Is there something i need to do to activeate this card?

Thank you and sorry for newbish question!

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

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Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

$ apt-file find rt2860sta
linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko

[...]

I guess I downgrade is in order?

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Best regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis
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[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Post by Panayiotis Karabassis

Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

$ apt-file find rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt2860sta.ko
[...]
I guess I downgrade is in order?

Is there any way i can just downgrade the kernel and leave the rest of the
system? Im running wheezy because in the past Ive never
had a problem running testing versions, and i might as well stay up to date.
There's nothing specific i need in the testing kernel.

But it would be a pain to wipe everything and reinstall.

Thanks!

Jen

[Panayiotis Karabassis]

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Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Is there any way i can just downgrade the kernel and leave the rest of the
system? Im running wheezy because in the past Ive never
had a problem running testing versions, and i might as well stay up to date.
There's nothing specific i need in the testing kernel.
But it would be a pain to wipe everything and reinstall.
Thanks!
Jen

Of course, it is possible, no reinstall is required. Please consult
apt_preferences on "pinning" the kernel to a specified version. Post
back if you need guidance.

If the downgrade solves your problem, I would also suggest opening a bug
report.

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Best regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis
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[Sven Joachim]

Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.
$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]
The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is
supported by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver
says to install wireless-tools and firmware-ralink.

It seems the wiki is somewhat outdated, since the rt2860sta module is no
longer built in the wheezy kernel. Instead, your card is supposed to be
supported by the rt2800pci driver.

Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I did this. But
wireless still doesn't show up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that
any wireless thing exists.

Is the rt2800pci module loaded? And if so, what does "ifconfig -a"
print?

Sven

[Wayne Topa]

Post by Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.
$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]
$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.
even though firmware-ralink is installed.
Is there something i need to do to activeate this card?
Thank you and sorry for newbish question!

Look here

/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/modules.order:kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running

2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.

$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n

2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]

The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is supported

by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver says to install
wireless-tools and firmware-ralink. I did this. But wireless still doesn't show
up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that any wireless thing exists. If i try

$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.
even though firmware-ralink is installed.
Is there something i need to do to activeate this card?
Thank you and sorry for newbish question!

Look here
/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/modules.order:kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
o

Thanks to both people who pointed this out. This module wasnt loaded by default
but it worked with modprobe, so i put it into
/etc/modules and its working now.

The one problem is that i dont see any sign of my 802.11n network. Its only
seeing the 2.4GHz G network. A Ubuntu machine with an Intel 5100

AGN card does see the 5GHz network. But this is probably a different problem so
i will play with it for a bit an ask again in the right thread.


Thanks!

Jen.