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I am trying to install a driver for my Encore ENLWI-N WiFi card (Ralink RT2860 chipset). The README that comes with it makes absolutely no sense and is definitely not ...
  1. 08-17-2009 #1
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    I am trying to install a driver for my Encore ENLWI-N WiFi card (Ralink RT2860 chipset).

    The README that comes with it makes absolutely no sense and is definitely not meant for Linux newbies to understand.

    I found these other 2 posts but they don't make much more sense to me either.

    [ubuntu] How to install wireless linux driver (ENLWI-N) - Ubuntu Forums

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    ralink is very good with linux--if you goto

    Ralink Technology: Linux

    you find a .tgz file

    2009_0521_RT2860_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.tgz

    that when unpacked compiles very nicely into a driver
    rt2860sta.ko that I am unable to test, having no such
    card.

    you will need kernel sources installed
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    What are kernel sources?
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    Tried it, it installed, but the wireless is still not listed in the connections.
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    What is the output of:
    Code:
    lspci
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    Code:
    $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 12)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 12)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 12)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 12)
00:14.3 PIC: Intel Corporation X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers (rev 12)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 3
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 4
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
01:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG Device 0720
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9800 GT (rev a2)
04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
08:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
    I see it says "RaLink RT2800" in there, I don't know where I saw that that card had a RaLink 2860.
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    Please also post the output of the following:

    lsmod
    uname -r

    Which distribution are you using?

    I haven't been able to find too much info, but it looks like the rt2870sta driver supports your card. This should be included by default in most recent releases, I think. At least, I've seen that Ubuntu 9.04 should have it.

    It's possible you need to install the compat-wireless group. Again, how to do this varies depending on your distro.

    TUTORIAL: Installing drivers RTL8187, r8187, RT2800usb on UBUNTU

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    I am using Fedora 11.

    Code:
    $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   10896  1 
fat                    48728  1 vfat
fuse                   57920  2 
ipt_MASQUERADE          3136  1 
iptable_nat             6352  1 
nf_nat                 18628  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
bridge                 51168  0 
stp                     2644  1 bridge
llc                     6128  2 bridge,stp
bnep                   14288  2 
sco                    11780  2 
l2cap                  22480  3 bnep
bluetooth              53300  5 bnep,sco,l2cap
sunrpc                185448  1 
ip6t_REJECT             4064  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      14632  2 
ip6table_filter         3936  1 
ip6_tables             18784  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  290112  52 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand        7696  8 
acpi_cpufreq            9832  0 
freq_table              4816  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
dm_multipath           16168  0 
kvm_intel              47768  0 
kvm                   152904  1 kvm_intel
uinput                  8704  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   265044  1 
snd_hda_intel          29000  2 
nvidia              10305592  38 
snd_hda_codec          65376  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
iTCO_wdt               13120  0 
snd_hwdep               8600  1 snd_hda_codec
firewire_ohci          22788  0 
usb_storage           101472  1 
i2c_i801               10064  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     3476  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_pcm                79960  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
firewire_core          44196  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               2000  1 firewire_core
nouveau               472656  0 
rt2860sta             524332  0 
snd_timer              22496  1 snd_pcm
pata_jmicron            3968  0 
r8169                  33780  0 
mii                     4944  1 r8169
pcspkr                  2848  0 
asus_atk0110            9920  0 
wmi                     7120  0 
snd                    65096  10 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7024  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9216  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
hwmon                   2904  1 asus_atk0110
ata_generic             5812  0 
pata_acpi               5040  0 
radeon                519608  0 
drm                   205980  2 nouveau,radeon
i2c_algo_bit            5972  2 nouveau,radeon
i2c_core               22240  6 nvidia,i2c_i801,nouveau,radeon,drm,i2c_algo_bit
    Code:
    $ uname -r
2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
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    Well rt2860sta is loading. I assume you aren't seeing your wireless network in the network manager?

    Can you give the output of

    iwconfig
    ifconfig
    dmesg | grep firmware
    dmesg | grep rt2860
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    When I click that little network icon on top of the screen (in GNOME), no wireless connections are listed. (Only the wired connection I am using now.)

    Code:
    $ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ra0       Ralink STA  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  
          Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-143 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

virbr0    no wireless extensions.
    Code:
    $ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:18:35:FD:9B  
          inet addr:192.168.1.74  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::226:18ff:fe35:fd9b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:272992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:145954 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:390189024 (372.1 MiB)  TX bytes:11012750 (10.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:55 Base address:0xa000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:9725 (9.4 KiB)  TX bytes:9725 (9.4 KiB)

virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 66:CC:FA:82:66:4B  
          inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::64cc:faff:fe82:664b/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:29 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:5269 (5.1 KiB)
    Code:
    $ dmesg | grep firmware
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-1a-05
    Code:
    $ dmesg | grep rt2860
rt2860 0000:08:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
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