[CentOS] New wireless controller

Fri Sep 2 05:10:20 UTC 2011
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems.  It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko.  I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with mac80211 and other dependencies.
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> Now I need to know how to create the wlan0 device.  I can find nothing via Google searches on how to create that device.  I assumed the driver would do that upon loading, but now I expect some ioctl to the driver command may be required.
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> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found.
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> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created?

What is the output of iwconfig?

What is the output of ifconfig -a