Comments on Chris Barker's Web Log: Ubuntu 10.04, Wireless chipsets, and WPA Security

I'm a bit new to linux. This fix worked for me...

2012-02-02T16:42:53.492-05:00

I'm a bit new to linux. This fix worked for me before, but it stopped working and I read somewhere that updating the kernel with re-break the driver.

What steps do I need to repeat to re-apply this fix to the new kernel? Do I need to re-compile the driver (all of step 5) or can I start with "sudo ifconfig wlan0 down" part of step 5?

Also, if anyone has some advice on how to automate the process or simplify it to one click that would be amazing.

Absolutely amazing! Followed instructions step-by-...

2011-12-01T05:28:10.409-05:00

Absolutely amazing!
Followed instructions step-by-step and now the built-in wifi card of my laptop is working.
Thank you very much for share this info!
(Laptop Medion MD96630; Wifi card chipset Ralink RT2860; Linux Mint 11).
P.S: I let the my laptop wifi button control blocked before erasing WinXP and installing Mint (due to this had 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill' at end of Step 7; Solution -> Installed 'rfkill' application to unblock it under Linux).

Chris, Just a BIG THANKS for that. Great job!!! ...

2011-09-30T07:55:27.296-04:00

Chris,

Just a BIG THANKS for that.

Great job!!!

Vincent.

simply thanks a lot for these instructions. Brun...

2011-08-26T14:41:16.198-04:00

simply thanks a lot for these instructions.

Bruno / Switzerland

I did get past those errors. Now this is happening...

2011-03-03T18:08:55.658-05:00

I did get past those errors. Now this is happening:

sudo rmmod rt2860sta

ERROR: Module rt2860sta does not exist in /proc/modules

Any help would be appreciated.

I really hate to post about the same problem, but ...

2011-03-03T17:50:10.706-05:00

I really hate to post about the same problem, but I did not find the answer. You have probably the only published help on getting RT2680 working with Ubuntu.

I am getting an error when trying to complete step 5: sudo make:

make[2]: *** [/home/cag-media/2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0/os/linux/../../common/cmm_wpa.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/cag-media/2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-27-generic'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

I even researched and found that I may need GCC installed. It is.

Please help! I'm stuck!

The instructions worked for me pretty well, i just...

2011-02-09T18:23:52.538-05:00

The instructions worked for me pretty well, i just had to replace rt2860sta with rt3090sta since i guess both those drivers compile from the same source code. just us 'lspci' to see the exact chipset your card uses

It's worth noting that even though the latest ...

2010-10-23T23:38:02.513-04:00

It's worth noting that even though the latest driver has the .bz2 extension, it's actually gzipped.

I executed

mv 2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2 2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.gz

Before unzipping using tar -zxvf mv 2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2

Hope that helps someone else.

Thank you so much, you rock!

2010-10-21T19:15:37.803-04:00

Thank you so much, you rock!

Chris, Thanks you very much. I was having a hard ...

2010-08-21T21:46:23.390-04:00

Chris,

Thanks you very much. I was having a hard time with WPA just like you. This was extremely helpful. Thanks again, much appreciated on the effort on this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! After much frus...

2010-08-13T06:17:18.631-04:00

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
After much frustration trying to get up and running in "n" after finding that the native driver in Lucid did not allow this and much frustration trying to understand the "read me" file, my laptop is now "n" capable and "smoking"

I got it. I figured out what I was doing wrong an...

2010-08-05T23:15:32.111-04:00

I got it. I figured out what I was doing wrong and completed the steps. My WPA connection is working fine now. Thanks again for this guide! It was very helpful. It's been a great learning experience for me.

Phillip

P.S. Your link to download the Ralink driver package didn't work for me. After entering my name and email address, It gave me an error page. I navigated through the site to get to the download. You might need to update the link.

Hi Chris, Thank you for this guide. I'm find...

2010-08-05T20:49:21.967-04:00

Hi Chris,

Thank you for this guide. I'm finding it helpful in learning to use command terminal. I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS a few days ago. This is my first time using Linux, so I'm just beginning to learn. On step 5, on the make command, I got the following warning several times:

warning: the frame size of * bytes is larger than 1024 bytes

I'm not sure what to do about this. I also got the following error messages:

CC [M] /home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../sta/wpa.o
CC [M] /home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.o
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c: In function ‘RtmpOSNetDevAttach’:
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1689: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1690: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1691: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1692: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘do_ioctl’
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1702: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1736: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘validate_addr’
make[2]: *** [/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/deli/Temp/RT2860/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic'
make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

I've spent a lot of of time researching and studying, seeking to figure this out. I appreiciate the challenge, but any help I can get on this would also be appreciated.

Hi again, I need more caffeine... So stupid.... F...

2010-08-05T15:26:19.672-04:00

Hi again,

I need more caffeine... So stupid.... File opened !

Thank you so much for the help !!!

jag

Hi again Chris, Sorry to post again, but still ha...

2010-08-05T15:23:33.888-04:00

Hi again Chris,

Sorry to post again, but still have the same problem when I download it: I get the error "bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.".

Am I doing something wrong???.

jag@Multivac:~/Descargas/kk$ bzip2 -d ./2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2
bzip2: ./2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
jag@Multivac:~/Descargas/kk$ bzip2 -t ./2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2
bzip2: ./2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2: bad magic number (file not created by bzip2)

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

jag@Multivac:~/Descargas/kk$ bzip2recover ./2010_07_16_RT2860_Linux_STA_v2.4.0.0.tar.bz2
bzip2recover 1.0.5: extracts blocks from damaged .bz2 files.
bzip2recover: searching for block boundaries ...
bzip2recover: sorry, I couldn't find any block boundaries.
jag@Multivac:~/Descargas/kk$

Thank you in advance for your help !

jag

Thank you for this Chris. Worked fine with the new...

2010-08-04T17:08:28.651-04:00

Thank you for this Chris. Worked fine with the new sauce location from the previous poster.

Leaves me scratching my head as to why RALink would disable the WPA cipher bits in the first place, and how it got through Canonical's QA process, but that's another topic.

Sorry for the bad embedding. The path to the drive...

2010-08-02T08:42:43.918-04:00

Sorry for the bad embedding. The path to the driver is here

An the link to the list of updated drivers is here

The download link has changed. The new link is he...

2010-08-02T08:37:24.645-04:00

The download link has changed. The new link is here

Or if you want a different version you can find it here

Hi Cris, I'm trying to follow your guide, but...

2010-07-29T20:02:14.580-04:00

Hi Cris,

I'm trying to follow your guide, but I failed at step 1. The downloaded file from Ralink web must be corrupted, as I get a "bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.". Would it be possible to sent the file to me ?. Thanks in advance !!!

Is it possible that this might also work for RT287...

2010-07-29T15:42:24.026-04:00

Is it possible that this might also work for RT2870 (with name substitution of course)?

The error "Invalid module format" occurs...

2010-07-28T18:45:57.402-04:00

The error "Invalid module format" occurs when the module has been built against a kernel that is not the currently running kernel.

Check the currently running kernel version with "uname -a" and if it is a .PAE kind, install the relevant kernel-devel with "yum -y install kernel-PAE-devel".

When i launch sudo make (step 5), I've got the...

2010-07-16T11:02:06.514-04:00

When i launch sudo make (step 5), I've got the following error :
ludi@ludi-laptop:~/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860$ sudo make
make -C tools
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/tools »
gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/tools »
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/tools/bin2h
cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-23-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux modules
make[1]: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-23-generic »
CC [M] /home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/rtmp_init.o
CC [M] /home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.o
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c: In function ‘RTMPIoctlGetSiteSurvey’:
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c:1922: error: ‘TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c:1922: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c:1922: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c:1922: error: implicit declaration of function ‘signal_pending’
/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.c:1922: error: implicit declaration of function ‘schedule_timeout’
make[2]: *** [/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux/../../common/cmm_info.o] Erreur 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ludi/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860/os/linux] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-23-generic »
make: *** [LINUX] Erreur 2
ludi@ludi-laptop:~/Téléchargements/modules/rt2860$

I need your help to correct this error.

Could you please send me your RT2860 driver source code because i'have error when i decompress the files ?
Thank you.

This worked for me with ubuntu netbook remix with ...

2010-07-14T15:47:47.750-04:00

This worked for me with ubuntu netbook remix with 2.6.32-21 and 2.6.32-22 kernels but when I updated to 32-23 kernel I cannot make it work anymore. Modprobe tells me it cannot add the driver because if invalid module format.
Any help? The newest kernel provided driver is better than the old ones but I am still having problems with certain WPA+WPA2 networks so I'd like to use this driver.
TIA for any advice.

Thank you for your very fine tutorial, I'm now...

2010-06-30T18:53:42.289-04:00

Thank you for your very fine tutorial, I'm now connected with my wind u100 netbook with the ralink2860 wlan-chipset and ubuntu 10.04 NRM! I've been followed your tut step by step, all the other tuts and scripts in the www had no effect. Greetings from Saxony/Germany, Chris

when I did this: cp RT2860STA.dat /etc/Wireless/R...

2010-06-30T16:22:20.307-04:00

when I did this:
cp RT2860STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat
speed increased from 54 to 300 Mb/s

when I compiled the driver (according to this instruction) my system became very unstable