RaLink RT2600 on Hardy Not Working

[Schiz0]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, "Terrell Prudé Jr."
>  <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  As nutty as this sounds, try replacing "wlan0" with "eth0".  My wireless
>  > interfaces always show up as either eth0 or eth1, depending on the box.
>  >
>  >  Also, do a "cat /proc/net/dev" and see if wlanX or ethX is in there.
>  >
>  >  --TP
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Schiz0 wrote:
>  >  I have a PCI wireless network card. It worked perfectly fine in Gusty.
>  > I got a new HDD recently and installed Hardy from scratch, and now the
>  > wireless card isn't working. Whenever I try to bring up the interface,
>  > I get the error "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory".
>  >
>  > Here's the output from multiple commands:
>  >
>  > sudo lscpi:
>  > 03:02.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO
>  >
>  > sudo lshw -C network:
>  >  *-network DISABLED
>  >  description: Wireless interface
>  >  product: RT2600 802.11 MIMO
>  >  vendor: RaLink
>  >  physical id: 2
>  >  bus info: pci at 0000:03:02.0
>  >  logical name: wmaster0
>  >  version: 00
>  >  serial: 00:50:18:4e:7b:29
>  >  width: 32 bits
>  >  clock: 33MHz
>  >  capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
>  >  configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci ip=192.168.1.234
>  > latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
>  >
>  > sudo lsmod | grep rt:
>  > parport_pc 41128 0
>  > parport 44300 2 parport_pc,lp
>  > rt61pci 27648 0
>  > rt2x00pci 12800 1 rt61pci
>  > rt2x00lib 25344 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
>  > rfkill 10128 1 rt2x00lib
>  > input_polldev 6928 1 rt2x00lib
>  > crc_itu_t 3584 1 rt2x00lib
>  > mac80211 192532 3 rt61pci,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
>  > iTCO_vendor_support 5764 1 iTCO_wdt
>  > eeprom_93cx6 3840 1 rt61pci
>  >
>  > cat /etc/network/interfaces:
>  > iface wlan0 inet static
>  >  address 192.168.1.243
>  >  netmask 255.255.255.0
>  >  gateway 192.168.1.1
>  >  wireless-key s:InsertASCIIPassHere
>  >  wireless-essid InsertSSIDHere
>  > auto wlan0
>  >
>  > sudo iwconfig:
>  > lo no wireless extensions.
>  > wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
>  > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
>  >  Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
>  >  Tx-Power=0 dBm
>  >  Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
>  >  Encryption key:off
>  >  Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
>  >  Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>  >  Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>  >
>  > sudo ifconfig wlan0 up:
>  > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>  >
>
>  Oddly enough, I just noticed that Ubuntu isn't detecting my wired
>  ethernet port either. It's integrated into my Intel motherboard. It is
>  enabled in my bios. And it was detected on Gusty perfectly fine too. I
>  was trying to route my connection wired through my windows laptop
>  (which connects wirelessly just fine), but I realized that the ubuntu
>  box doesn't even have a eth0 for the wired connection :-\
>
>  cat /proc/net/dev shows that I have lo, wmaster0, and wlan0.
>

Just to let everyone know, I solved this problem. When installing
Hardy, I selected the "linux-image-x.x.x" kernel, instead of
"linux-generic". This caused the installer to NOT install the
restricted modules, etc, which is why it didn't detect my interface.