Install problem WLAN with Ralink rt2500 chipset

From: Oliver Cromwell (cromwell.nospam_at_arcor.de)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:31:06 +0100

Hi NG!

I am trying to install a PCI WLAN card (Conceptronic C54Ri) to my PC. Th
card has the Ralink rt2500 chipset which is supposed to work with Linux.

My Linux box works with the commercial SuSE 10.0, most updated.

When I first installed the card, YaST did not recognize it. I tried to make
it work with the ndiswrapper. That worked neither (it might be that I did
something wrong?!) I would want this anyways since there are obviously good
linux drivers for this card.

(Proof of that might be, that the live-version of Ubuntu 5.10, which I
brought with me from the Linuxworld fair here in Frankfurt, detected it
right away as ra0, let me configure it and it worked).

I suppose there are some traces left in the system by the ndiswrapper,
because the output of iwconfig is:

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-120 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth1 no wireless extensions.

cipsec0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

dsl0 no wireless extensions.

I tried to configure the card according to
http://wiki.unixboard.de/index.php/Hardware:RaLink_RT2500/Einrichten_unter_SuSE_Linux_9.x
but I simply don't have a ra0 device.

Right now I am online with the onboard ethernet device. ifconfig's output
is:

dsl0 Protokoll:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung
          inet Adresse:84.58.186.162 P-z-P:84.58.128.1
Maske:255.255.255.255
          UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
          RX packets:31316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:38280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:3
          RX bytes:10636253 (10.1 Mb) TX bytes:27974736 (26.6 Mb)

eth1 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:0B:6A:6E:11:7C
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.0.0.255 Maske:255.255.255.0
          inet6 Adresse: fe80::20b:6aff:fe6e:117c/64
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:31403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:38370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:359 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
          RX bytes:11330496 (10.8 Mb) TX bytes:28819832 (27.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:209 Basisadresse:0xbc00

lo Protokoll:Lokale Schleife
          inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 Maske:255.0.0.0
          inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:1104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
          RX bytes:362944 (354.4 Kb) TX bytes:362944 (354.4 Kb)

Does anybody have an idea, what's wrong?

How do delete all the trace of ndiswrapper (I already have
deleted/uninstalled the profiles and the program itself.)?

Who is using this card as well and it works?

Thanks in advance for any answer that might help :-)

Oliver

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