rt2x00 driver

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 16:44 +0200, KH KH wrote:
> 2007/4/9, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>:
> > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:58 +0200, KH KH wrote:
> > > 2007/4/9, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>:
> > > > I am having problems with the rt2x00 driver present in the kernel
> > > > 3045. I have an usb device (Belink f5d7050, fcc id: k7s-f5d7050b).
> > > >
> > > > When I plug the device the driver loads correctly:
> > > >
> > > > usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
> > > > usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > > > Loading module: rt2x00lib - CVS (N/A) by http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com.
> > > > Loading module: rt73usb - CVS (N/A) by http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com.
> > > > usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
> > > > Loading module: rt2500usb - CVS (N/A) by http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com.
> > > > usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
> > > > wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
> > > Ralink usb devices can use rt2500usb or rt73usb (you "may" need to
> > > uses rt71w-firmware currently in review with the second case!). The
> > > first step should be to blacklist one or the other doing: echo
> > > "blacklist rt2500usb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
> > > > iwlist works despite the warning:
> > > >
> > > > iwlist wlan0 scan
> > > Same result with my rt2500pci, the problem is association is failling.
> > > Sometime you can have better result using rausb0 or ra0 aliases...
> > > (this has been rapported sometime - not my own experience...)
> > > > Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 22
> > > > of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 20.
> > > > Some things may be broken...
> > > Same warning! But since this may prevent to associate correctly with
> > > Ralink's devices we should consider this as a bug!
> > > > I have the latest wireless-tools installed. Should I recompile it?
> > > The Wireless-tools from devel is tha same version as Fedora Core 6,
> > > this is a problem because this site:
> > > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#latest
> > > do not mention WE-22 but beta WE-21, and i down't know where can i
> > > find tools that supports WE-22 (any link or references?)
> > > > The problem starts when running wpa_suppilcant:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -D wext -c /et plicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Device or resource busy
> > > > Could not configure driver to use managed mode
> > > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> > > > WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not support
> > > >
> > > > Does someone knows what is wrong? What version of rt2x00 is included
> > > > in the kernel? Do think I should compile a new version? Should I add
> > > > the dscape patch to wpa_supplicant? According to the rt2x00 site newer
> > > > versions should work with the wext driver...
> > > This implies that wpa-supplicant may be updated, i'm only working on
> > > hostapd for now and i  didn't received answears for this bug,
> > > requesting it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230857
> >
> > Updated.  We shouldn't be adding new drivers to wpa_supplicant, but
> > fixing the kernel drivers to correctly implement WEXT.
> >
> > mac80211 doesn't work well enough with WEXT yet, but work is ongoing in
> > that area.  mac80211 is still an experimental stack and in no way
> > 'stable'.  You may experience problems while using it with tools other
> > than 'iwconfig', or even with 'iwconfig'.
> >
> > Dan
> Thx for this tips Dan i will work this way with hostapd next week...
> but now how WE-22 can be implemented if wireless-tools isn't rebuilt for fc7?
> ftp://*/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/wireless-tools-28-1.fc6.i386.rpm
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/234725 ?

The version of WE doesn't matter as long as it's > 19.

dan

> I suppose the same problem will occurs as Fedora Core 5 had when WE
> were updated inside the kernel. it was so difficult to update
> Wireless-tools because it was required by
> most of the packages involved in wireless (NetworkManager and so many others...)
> 
> Why wireless-tools cannot be build against new kernel (and WE-22 ?)
> 
> Nicolas (kwizart)
> 
> > > This was before the 80211 stack named change (from d80211 to mac80211 ).
> > > But since i didn't recevied any answear may we consider this package
> > > as orphaned ?!
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Rafael
> > >
> > > Rafael if you could test hostapd it would help, but for now the
> > > package isn't ready for inclusion in my view (mostly because of
> > > headers not in kernel)...
> > > I will try to work on wpa_supplicant update unless someone take it...
> > >
> > > Also i've read some link from ivd the main dev for rt2x00 who said
> > > that rt2x00 do not seems to be ready for 2.6.21. But solving all
> > > theses issues may help to have working wireless mac80211 devices "out
> > > of the box" (dreams)
> > >
> > > Nicolas (kwizart)
> > > http://kwizart.free.fr/blog
> > >
> > > Some references :
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230731
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230449
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/230164
> > >
> > > I was working on legacies version for some time now but they are going
> > > more bad each day...The paradox is that thoses devices are privilegied
> > > by FSF because of legal conformity with GPL...
> > >
> >
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