I just upgraded to R5F27 and I can't get an rt2500 wireless adapter working. With R5D1, I just followed the the "Using WPA" steps (substituting "ra0" for "eth-wifi") at: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Debian_rt2500_Howto#Using_WPA

In R5F27, the adapter shows up as wlan0 instead of ra0 so I used that but when I got to the "iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK" step, it said "Invalid command : set". Since I couldn't run the iwpriv commands, I tried temporarily disabling encryption on the access point but it still didn't work. Does anyone know how to use the rt2500 with R5F27?

Instead of using wireless, I can actually recommend those powerline ethernet adapters.

I use a cheapie OEM pair and it is much easier than dealing with wireless.

Both of my kids KM frontends used to use Linksys wireless PCI cards under R5B7 (using the RT61 driver). I tried for a short while to get the driver working under R5F27, and didn't get anywhere. I figured that my time == money, so instead of continuing to try and get the RT61 driver working, I bought a Buffalo wireless gaming adapter - its basically a wireless bridge with a 4 port switch built in. Both of the kids KM boxes connect to it, and both can watch recorded shows / movies at the same time with no bandwidth issues.

Using hardwired network adapters certainly made the installation go much faster / smoother. I'm very happy I decided to give up on the RT61 driver.

Allan

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Running Knoppmyth R5F27 since 09/12/07

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I got my linksys wmp54g (which uses the rt2500 drivers) to work after reading these two posts:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13256.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10804

I changed my /etc/network/interfaces to the following and my wifi card comes up consistently when i reboot.



I don't know if this is the most elegant solution, but it works for me. Hope it helps.

Thanks for all the suggestions. This particular machine is a seldom used frontend so it's not a high priority and I don't want throw any money at it. I had been pleasantly surprised at how easy the wireless setup was when I first tried R5D1 and I was a little disappointed when it didn't work with R5F27. I'm going to try the changes to /etc/network/interfaces but it may be more than a week before I have a chance to do this. I'll report back to let others know how it goes.

I combined rusty-'s /etc/network/interfaces additions with the ones I had been using for WPA encryption in R5D1:

It's working perfectly. Thanks again for tip.

silentaccord,

I have tried to follow the instructions in this topic, but I can't get the wireless to work. I had the exact same problem as you did in the first post, I have downloaded the firmware for the card, but I still can't get it to recognise the interface ra0.

Any help would be appreciated

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Girkers

The lines I added to /etc/network/interfaces (see my previous post) were all that was required to get mine working. I didn't have to do anything with firmware. If you want to test it interactively first, you can try running the following commands:

These are for a WPA encrypted network on channel 6. You might have to adjust them to suit your needs.

Thanks I will let you know how it goes.

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Girkers

I tried it step by step and got the following error:



All previous commands work without any form of response.

For reference the card I am using is:



Do I need to D/L a newer driver or whatelse could anyone suggest.

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Girkers