Re: v0.7.998: doesn't see ra0

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 06:49 +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 of March 2010 02:05:27 Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 15:59 -0700, Colin Brace wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > First, I'd like to report that NM works really well with my mobile
> > > broadband USB stick (a Huawei, from Vodafone).
> > > 
> > > Second, I have Fedora 12 installed on an Asus Eee PC 1101HA, with
> > > the Ralink RT3090 wireless chipset.
> > > 
> > > A driver for this chipset isn't in the kernel yet, so I downloaded
> > > the source from Ralink, compiled and installed it under kernel
> > > 2.6.32.9-70. It loads on boot time, works fine from the command
> > > line (ifconfig ra0... iwconfig... dhclient...).
> > > 
> > > However, I can't get NM to see it.
> > 
> > This is usually because the driver you've got has bugs or isn't
> > correctly implemented. 
> 
> Last time I had to use driver taken directly from Ralink site was about 
> 5 years ago, but IIRC it did not implement WEXT at all - full WPA was 
> done by driver internally and PSK had to be set using iwpriv. Of course 
> things could have changed in the mean time.

Yeah, they have; it's certainly not as good as an actual upstream driver
(though rt2x00 doesn't fully support these devices yet) but they at
least added some WEXT support for WPA.  It's still a rough ride though.

Dan