Network Manager and Ralink

[Mick M.]

Hi;
  I just bought an older Vaio PCG-FXA47 laptop.
It does not have wireless.
My main box does and it uses a Ralink PCI card.

I have a two PCMCIA cards and a USB adapter for the Vaio.

Only one of the PCMCIA cards will connect.
The other one and the USB give me the dreaded "secets required by wireless network", message.

I did a "lsmod | grep rt" on each.

Here is a breakdown:

-------------------------------------------------------------
working: PCI from main box

rt61pci                20736  0
rt2x00pci               9728  1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib              33280  2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
rfkill                 11288  2 rt2x00lib
mac80211              181480  2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
cfg80211               24968  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
crc_itu_t               5760  2 rt61pci,firewire_core
eeprom_93cx6            5888  1 rt61pci

-------------------------------------------------------------
working: laptop
PCMCIA  Linksys WPC11 rev 4

rtl8180                29696  0
mac80211              181480  1 rtl8180
eeprom_93cx6            5888  1 rtl8180
cfg80211               24968  2 rtl8180,mac80211

-------------------------------------------------------------
Broken: laptop/Working:main box WITH PCI (2 connections)

USB: "WiBEE Wlan 80211g USB adapter"

rtl8187                39808  0
rtl8180                29696  0
mac80211              181480  2 rtl8187,rtl8180
eeprom_93cx6            5888  2 rtl8187,rtl8180
cfg80211               24968  3 rtl8187,rtl8180,mac80211
-------------------------------------------------------------
broken:laptop
PCMCIA: "MSI CB54G2" CT-CB54G2

rtl8180                29696  0
mac80211              181480  1 rtl8180
eeprom_93cx6            5888  1 rtl8180
cfg80211               24968  2 rtl8180,mac80211
-------------------------------------------------------------

If I plug the USB into the main box it connects, then I have two connections to the same router.
I cannot test the PCMCIA cards without an adapter.

So there is some strange stuff with the RaLink drivers.

Mick M.