On 09/01/2011 10:10 PM, Barry Brimer 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? > > What is the output of iwconfig? > > What is the output of ifconfig -a > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > [root at sbbusx ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. ppp0 no wireless extensions. [root at sbbusx ~]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:33:11:80 inet addr:192.168.6.99 Bcast:192.168.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:618 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:61246 (59.8 KiB) TX bytes:149248 (145.7 KiB) Interrupt:177 Memory:feae0000-feb00000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:33:11:81 inet addr:172.19.255.254 Bcast:172.19.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:169 Memory:febe0000-fec00000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:297812 (290.8 KiB) TX bytes:297812 (290.8 KiB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:xxx.yyy.z.qq P-t-P:xx.y.z.qqq Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:28657 (27.9 KiB) TX bytes:21865 (21.3 KiB) Also, in the syslog I see this when I run modprobe rt2x00pci.ko: Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Sep 2 09:25:08 bus kernel: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm) Now I am thinking that perhaps the driver doesn't see the new hardware. I'll try it with the adapter removed. Emmett