RaLink rt3090 support

[Colin Brace]

Hi all,

I installed F12 on a Eee PC 1001HA. Everything workes fine except the
wireless chipset, RaLink RT3090

Google turned up various leads, such as this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236729

One  poster writes:

"Kernel-2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13 includes a module for the rt3090 chip in
the staging directory."

Another writes:

"Fedora's kernel package contains some of the staging modules. I don't know
what criteria they have for choosing what staging modules get into the
Fedora package. Most likely the rt3090 got in the 2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13
package by accident. You can file a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com and ask them
to reinclude it.

Meanwhile rpmfusion offers a kmod-staging package that you can try, which
covers (most of) those staging modules that don't come with Fedora's
kernel."

Someone filed a bug against this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548805

One of the followups indicates:

Staging: remove no longer needed rt3090 driver
rt2860 handles now all rt2860/rt3090 chipsets.

Now I am thoroughly confused. :)
> From Fusion, I installed kmod-staging:

kmod-staging-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.10.i686
staging-kmod-addons-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.noarch
kmod-staging-2.6.31.5-2.fc12.10.i686

as well as the rt2860 driver:

kmod-rt2860-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686-2.1.2.0-3.fc12.12.i686
rt2860-2.1.2.0-2.fc12.noarch

However, when I rebooted the Eee, the wireless card still isn't recognized.

What are my options at this point?

Wait for 2.6.32 kernel? Will it make it into F12 or not until F13?

Try to install via kmod-staging? Not sure how, can't find any man page or
docs anyway.

Compile the driver myself? Version dd 27 january, source:
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

Install rawhide? Not crazy about that idea.

Thanks.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam
  http://lim.nl

[Joel Gomberg]

On 01/30/2010 06:09 AM, Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed F12 on a Eee PC 1001HA. Everything workes fine except the
> wireless chipset, RaLink RT3090
>
> Google turned up various leads, such as this thread:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=236729
>
> One  poster writes:
>
> "Kernel-2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13 includes a module for the rt3090 chip in
> the staging directory."
> Someone filed a bug against this:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548805
>
> One of the followups indicates:
>
> Staging: remove no longer needed rt3090 driver
> rt2860 handles now all rt2860/rt3090 chipsets.
>
> Now I am thoroughly confused. :)

Since I'm the one who wrote the post and filed the bug, let me confuse you a bit 
more.  Starting with the 2.6.33 kernel, support for the rt3090 is supposed to be 
included in the rt2800pci module.  I've tried the 2.6.33 kernels in rawhide, but 
they don't work.  The kernel tries to load the module, calls for the rt2860 
firmware file, and then gives up.  Ralink updated its rt3090 driver this week. 
I'm hopeful it includes a fix, which will soon be incorporated into the kernel:

http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

In the meantime, I'm still using the 2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2.fc13 kernel.  I'm not 
running rawhide, just using the kernel with f12.  You can still find the kernel 
through koji.  Please add your information to the bug.  It may help to speed up 
resolution of this issue.

[Colin Brace]

Hi again everyone,

I ended up downloading the source from here:
http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

I then compiled it (you need kernel-devel installed)

then:

# cd os/linux
# insmod rt3090sta.ko
# ifconfig ra0 up
# ifconfig ra0
ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00  
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:d3ff:fe53:94b2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:32264 (31.5 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:17

For some reason, it isn't getting a DHCP lease... still working on that.

-----
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam
  http://lim.nl

[Joel Gomberg]

On 01/31/2010 04:59 AM, Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi again everyone,
>
> I ended up downloading the source from here:
> http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
>
> I then compiled it (you need kernel-devel installed)
>
> then:
>
> # cd os/linux
> # insmod rt3090sta.ko
> # ifconfig ra0 up
> # ifconfig ra0
> ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00
>            inet6 addr: fe80::225:d3ff:fe53:94b2/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:96 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:32264 (31.5 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>            Interrupt:17
>
> For some reason, it isn't getting a DHCP lease... still working on that.

There is an updated [2.3.1.3] driver from Ralink that fixes this issue.  The 
driver now not only compiles -- it actually works.

[Colin Brace]

Hi all,

As I indicated above, I got the driver working from the vendor's website.

There remains a small hurdle: I can't get the wireless interface to come up
automatically.

In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, I created the file "ifcfg-ra0" with the
following contents:

# Network Interface
DEVICE=ra0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NAME="wireless"
ONBOOT=yes
MODE=Managed
ESSID=venus
TYPE=Wireless
DEFROUTE=yes
UUID=48a80359-5bb1-ccfe-d847-4b84b5dbea95
HWADDR=00:25:D3:53:94:B2
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no

Any thoughts on why it is not loading automatically so that NetworkManager
will see it?

-----
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam
  http://lim.nl

[Joel Gomberg]

On 02/09/2010 01:01 PM, Colin Brace wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I indicated above, I got the driver working from the vendor's website.

Are you using the latest Ralink driver?  It's 2.3.1.3.

For me, NetworkManager connects without any manual scripts.