Re: rt3070sta not controllable with networkmanager

[Steev Klimaszewski <steev steev net>]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Dan O'Connor <beguiledfoil gmail com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have an rt3070sta based wifi usb adapter. I've actually got it working,
> but I have to manually connect it to the correct ap (using ifconfig,
> iwconfig, and dhcpcd) and cannot use NetworkManager. When starting
> NetworkManager --no-daemon I get the following output:
> NetworkManager: <info> starting...
> NetworkManager: <info> modem-manager is now available
>
> (NetworkManager:5268): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_error_free: assertion `error !=
> NULL' failed
> NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To
> report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
> NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state
> file
> NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state
> file
> NetworkManager: Ignoring insecure configuration file
> '/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/.keep_net-misc_networkmanager-0'
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169')
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): now managed
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): preparing device.
> NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
> NetworkManager: Added default wired connection 'Auto eth0' for
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.6/0000:08:00.0/net/eth0
> NetworkManager: <WARN> device_creator(): /sys/devices/virtual/net/ra0:
> couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
> * status: started
> NetworkManager: <WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error getting default
> adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
>
> The only important/unexpected line as far as I can tell is that it couldn't
> determine the device driver for ra0, my wifi device. It seems odd to me that
> this device is in a "virtual" device folder, is that part of the problem?
> I'm at a total loss as to how NetworkManager is expecting to relate the
> device to its driver.
>
> The distro I'm using is Gentoo, and I configured the kernel myself. I also
> compiled the wifi driver myself (even had to make some modifications to get
> it to compile.. nothing major, just update some function names and add a
> license tag).
> I'm not sure what other info would be helpful in solving this problem, I
> will try to be prompt with any requests for more information.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan O.
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>

You need to turn on Network Manager support in the config.mk file.
Out of curiosity, is rt2x00 not working for you, or is it just not
stable enough?