I've never installed a wireless adapter on Linux.
The Linksys Wireless-G adapter talks to my router with Windows XP, so the hardware works and is plugged in.
lspci -v tells me I have a
00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
iwconfig tells me
00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 20
Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
[root@localhost [1] feri]# lsmod | grep rt
rt61pci 24513 0
rt2x00pci 11201 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 21057 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
Fedora 8 installed a recent version: 2.0.12
I've tried turning on NetworkManager, but that didn't work. I also tried ifup wlan0. I currently have the router set with no security. Ultimately, I would like to run WEP with a 64 bit hex key.
If I ifup
ifup wlan0
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
At the end of my dmesg, I have many lines that look like this:
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
In /var/log/messages
Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Dec 30 23:37:06 localhost dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
A little guidance would be really appreciated.
Frank
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