On 09/02/2011 09:46 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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. >> >> I created an ifcfg-wlan0 file, but of course ifup wlan0 always returns device not found. >> >> Can somebody tell me where to start on getting the wlan0 device created? >> >> Emmett > > Hi Emmett, > > Are you sure that's the right driver? > > My guess is you might want the Ralink rt2860sta driver if it's a 2680 > chipset. See here: > > http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta > > Anyway, to know for sure, please post the output from the following > command (all one line): > > for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); > do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done > > Also, those Ralink wireless network drivers tend to be built with > support for NetworkManager so you should generally enable the > NetworkManager service (and disable network and wpa_supplicant services) > and let NetworkManager control the device. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Yup, looks like I am trying to load the wrong driver. I assumed that if the driver loaded it found the hardware. [root at bus ~]# for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done 01:00.0 "Network controller" "RaLink" "RT2860" "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." "Device 130f" 01:00.0 0280: 1814:0781 02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82574L Gigabit Network Connection" "Super Micro Computer Inc" "Device 10d3" 02:00.0 0200: 8086:10d3 03:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82574L Gigabit Network Connection" "Super Micro Computer Inc" "Device 10d3" 03:00.0 0200: 8086:10d3 I'll get the correct driver. Also, this is a specialized server, so network manager is not an option. Plus, the wireless card will be configured as an access point and I don't believe NM will allow me ot configure it that way. Emmett