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mna

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trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 22, 2010, 23:17

morning,

first of all, thanks for your work, you’ve done a great job.

i have install the 3Mx 4.0 on a little laptop, the installation was well done.
but i have a trouble with the wifi nic card : it’s still not work.

i have a strange message in dmesg :

usb.c : USB device number 5 default language ID 0X409
%anufacturer: Ralink
Product: 802.11 bg WLAN
usb.c unhandled interfaces on device
usb device 5 (vend/prod 0x148f/0×2573) is not claimed by any active driver.
…
[usb characteristics ...]

i have a look to the /lib/modules and i can’t find any kernel module named rt73 (i guess it is the correct drivers ?)

what is the solution ?

thank’s in advance.
mna.

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 23, 2010, 13:33

i have update the OS to 3MX-Ultra and still have the same behaviour regarding the wifi driver.

wicknix

Member
Posts: 28

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 23, 2010, 14:44

What’s the name of your machine? As Ralink is not the wifi chipset that these machines use. The alpha400/trendtac/elonex/cnmbook etc use a Zydas chipset. The only wireless driver the default kernel comes with is for Zydas. If you have some oddball machine you might have to compile your own kernel module for other wifi chipsets.

Cheers

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 23, 2010, 15:05

the machine name is SurfOne V70,
i can see INO-00892 model on Alpha400.

(i don’t know where does it come from … a friend child …)

i have a look to compile myself the kernel module, but developpement tools are not installed (no make, no kernel source, no cpp, …)

i can found the module source from the vendor http://www.ralinktech.com
(http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2 and i guess it is RT2501USB(RT73:RT2571W/RT2573/RT2671 )

is there any FAQ regarding the kernel compilation and associate tools ?

many thanks
mna.

wicknix

Member
Posts: 28

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 23, 2010, 15:17

Have a look here for kernel compiling:
http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/bin/view/Epc700/CompilingAKernel

Cheers

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 23, 2010, 23:22

i have try to compile the kernel source but it does not work for me,
am using

EPC700_GPL_Sources.7z & celinux-skytone-update-kernel-0902.tar.bz2 from http://www.trendtac.nl/
i can’t compile the kernel due to error confligting type for “devfs_make_root” …

i have try with those drivers code source :
- 2009_0713_RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.3.zip from ralink web site
- http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/rt73-source/download

no one has compiled.
lot of error in rtmp_main.o due to unknown variable…

seem to be quite difficult to compile this by myself.

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 24, 2010, 16:47

there are some progress …

i can compile the kernel source 2.4.20-celf3 and boot my netbook on it

it seem very sensitive to the gcc version, and i have some difficulties to find 3.3 (which seem outdate)
i have found this mirror :
ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/crossdev/i386-linux/mipsel-linux/
where there are lot of version.

my kernel compilation is ok with the gcc-mipsel-linux-3.3.6-1 & gcc-4.3.2 & gcc-cpp-4.3.2

the next step is to compile the rt73 module,

it’s not seem to compile out of the box … so i don’t know if i will succeded ..

i will give you back news if any

mna.

Big Rufus

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Posts: 1

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 25, 2010, 12:57

I’m having the same problem mna. My LLL is a skytex SX-E700 but it has the same Ralink card as yours. In searching the Ralink website I found this page:

http://eng.ralinktech.com.tw/support.php?s=2

That has both the driver and the firmware for it. From what I’ve read the firmware has to be installed also. Having no knowledge of Linux before getting this machine I have no idea how to proceed. But the page I gave will give you the correct driver and firmware to work from.

Edit:
Looking at the page you listed in an earlier post seems to be identical to the one I posted. Guess I wasn’t much help.

Made posts about this problem here:

http://linuxlaptopforum.ark2webdesign.co.uk/index.php/topic,813.0.html

and here:

http://linuxlaptopforum.ark2webdesign.co.uk/index.php/topic,816.0.html

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 27, 2010, 17:21

i have compiled one rt73.o module,
it load correctly in my module but it doesn’t seem to work … (not yet ) …
if you want to try it you can download it from (– http://dl.free.fr/pA1WKYKBA –)

let me know if it’s working.
mna.

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: January 31, 2010, 15:45

still does not work for me …
here is a RT73.o compiled with debug information http://dl.free.fr/ofk8l8hMk
and we can see in dmesg something like :
usb.c: registered new driver rt73
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 10 ret -32
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 4 ret -32
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 10 ret -32
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 4 ret -32
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 10 ret -32
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 4 ret -32

ihave “googled” with this behaviour and sometime it’s seem to come from the OHCI controler drivers, sometimes from the usb driver (mean rt73.0 in our case).

i don’t have any more idea to go ahead.
if somebody has an idear, a patch or a beer .. am interesting.

mna.

mna

Member
Posts: 8

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: February 20, 2010, 22:09

finally,

i guess it miss me some information to make the module rt73 working.
(seem to be needed to change 2 binary files named pp-wireless and wireless-lan)

you can find a solution here :
http://linuxlaptopforum.ark2webdesign.co.uk/index.php/topic,773.msg5775.html#msg5775

this solution work for me.
mna.

jxke

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Posts: 3

Re: trouble with wifi usb card
on: February 24, 2010, 00:49

ahhh yeahhh. worked great for me as well on the Skytex e700.

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