Problems with RT73 drivers in Puppy 2.13
Problems with RT73 drivers in Puppy 2.13
After fiddling with the Puppy 2.13, I finally got my Averatec 2370 to talk to my wireless AP by loading RT73 drivers. This worked for a few days, but today, it faiiled and I couldn't get it working again.
I am going to spend some time tonight tracing down the problem, but does anyone know if the rt73 driver in 2.13 is stable?
I am going to spend some time tonight tracing down the problem, but does anyone know if the rt73 driver in 2.13 is stable?
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I have a machine which need the RT73 drivers.
I loaded them in the network wizard.
I looked if acces points were found and I found several of which mine was strongest.
I made a profile, got a device rausb0, but dhcp didn't work.
I could set a static ip, but ran into problems when I gave the gateway address.
Network wizard gave the message setup was unsuccessful.
My AP is a Philips ADSL modem multiservices.
There is a dhcp server built-in.
I loaded them in the network wizard.
I looked if acces points were found and I found several of which mine was strongest.
I made a profile, got a device rausb0, but dhcp didn't work.
I could set a static ip, but ran into problems when I gave the gateway address.
Network wizard gave the message setup was unsuccessful.
My AP is a Philips ADSL modem multiservices.
There is a dhcp server built-in.
please see:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15057
dhcpcd rausb0
It works here in the hotel, and as you use the same kernel-module as I do, my steps might be valid for your model, too
Mark
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15057
dhcpcd rausb0
It works here in the hotel, and as you use the same kernel-module as I do, my steps might be valid for your model, too
Mark
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Thanks Mark,
I did get a list of 6 cells and picked one which was unprotected.
the dhcpcd worked, but I didn't have a connection to the net.
In ifconfig I saw that rausb0 got an ip address tho.
In the list of cells I saw also my AP which is WEP protected.
I looked in the help of the iwconfig cmd, but didn't find what parm is needed to configure a WEP protected AP.
As my XP uses this AP I have the WEP key.
How do I reset rausb0 (ip address etc) in order to start all over?
I tried iwconfig rausb0 down, but the IP is still there.
I did get a list of 6 cells and picked one which was unprotected.
the dhcpcd worked, but I didn't have a connection to the net.
In ifconfig I saw that rausb0 got an ip address tho.
In the list of cells I saw also my AP which is WEP protected.
I looked in the help of the iwconfig cmd, but didn't find what parm is needed to configure a WEP protected AP.
As my XP uses this AP I have the WEP key.
How do I reset rausb0 (ip address etc) in order to start all over?
I tried iwconfig rausb0 down, but the IP is still there.
run the ethernet-wizard.
Choose to set a static IP.
This topic almost drove me mad here today, after playing around with the wizards, my dhcp did not work any more.
But I fixed it like this:
in windows, I looked at how I was connected to the network.
This is an option of my driver, but maybe with "ipconfig" in a dos-window you see the relevant informations, too.
It gave me these values:
Google told me, that the command
netstat -rn
should report a gateway.
My result was:
After running Puppys ethernet-wizard to set a static IP, I got:
I don't know, how this could be automated.
It would be nice to have a comand like "find-gateway rausb0".
Mark
Choose to set a static IP.
This topic almost drove me mad here today, after playing around with the wizards, my dhcp did not work any more.
But I fixed it like this:
in windows, I looked at how I was connected to the network.
This is an option of my driver, but maybe with "ipconfig" in a dos-window you see the relevant informations, too.
It gave me these values:
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Physikalische Adresse: 00-19-5B-3A-B7-96
IP-Adresse: 192.168.2.158
Subnetzmaske: 255.255.255.0
Standardgateway: 192.168.2.1
DHCP-Server: 192.168.2.1
Lease erhalten: 10.02.2007 00:06:35
Lease läuft ab: 19.01.2038 04:14:07
DNS-Server: 192.168.2.1
netstat -rn
should report a gateway.
My result was:
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sh-3.00# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
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sh-3.00# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 rausb0
It would be nice to have a comand like "find-gateway rausb0".
Mark
Netdiscover will scan the network for IP address. If you use the -f switch, it only scans 1, 100, and 254 ending ip address, so it's pretty quick that way and gateways are usually addresed that way.
PS - You've got to have a good connection for it to work.
PS - You've got to have a good connection for it to work.
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it looks like that for the encryption key, you must edit:
/etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73sta.dat
But I cannot test that here, so I can't tell you details.
Maybe google can give you some example configurations.
I've built a small wizard for rt73 without encryption.
You could edit
/usr/local/Muppy-rt73/resource/run-rt73
to add more parameters to iwconfig in line 35 and 53.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 6129#96129
iwconfig --help shows all options, or see:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/iwconfig.8.html
If someone can give a precise description of how to use wep, I can try to add it to my wizard.
Mark
/etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73sta.dat
But I cannot test that here, so I can't tell you details.
Maybe google can give you some example configurations.
I've built a small wizard for rt73 without encryption.
You could edit
/usr/local/Muppy-rt73/resource/run-rt73
to add more parameters to iwconfig in line 35 and 53.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 6129#96129
iwconfig --help shows all options, or see:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/iwconfig.8.html
If someone can give a precise description of how to use wep, I can try to add it to my wizard.
Mark
I compiled a new rt73 kernelmodule, it fixes the dhcp error
see:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15305
Mark
see:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15305
Mark
No, I've used it many times to find a gateway. You just have to be associated with the access point. Once associated:Kirk, netdiscover can not be used to find a gateway, as it requires the gateway to scan the network.
netdiscover -f rausb0
This will start scanning 192.168.0.0, and checks 1, 100, and 254 with the -f switch. It does this by sending ARP requests and sniffing for replies. You don't even need an IP address assigned to your interface. You do need a good signal.
Looks like you've been having driver problems. If your still having problems, I posted the source from Ralink (instead of serialmonkey) with the ID's for dlink added here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 31&t=12352
Might be worth a try.
Also If you have not been able to get rutilt working, it's worth the effort for someone using a laptop. The version in 2.13 is different than the one used in 2.12 and has some bugs fixed.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 31&t=12352
Might be worth a try.
Also If you have not been able to get rutilt working, it's worth the effort for someone using a laptop. The version in 2.13 is different than the one used in 2.12 and has some bugs fixed.