[CentOS] New wireless controller

Fri Sep 2 19:44:15 UTC 2011
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 02/09/11 18:33, Emmett Culley wrote:
> 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

Confirmed, it's kmod-rt2860sta you want.

$ grep -i 1814 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 0781
/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-238.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-274.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta
/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/modules.alias:alias 
pci:v00001814d00000781sv*sd*bc*sc*i* rt2860sta


Set up elrepo as described on the homepage here:

http://elrepo.org

then install the driver with:

yum install kmod-rt2860sta

yum will pull in the required firmware package as a dependency.

Hope that helps.