[SATLUG] wireless question

[Glenn F. Boswell]

tom weeks wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 08:40, Glenn F. Boswell wrote:
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>> Awesome. I ordered two more usb devices, with ralinks chipsets from
>> another vendor to see if it is the version I have. I tried it on my new
>> Dell also and with similar results. It could be I'm fighting the
>> "Managed" part of ACCD_Unsecured_Guest that is windows centric. One
>> thing does bother me is I get this in /var/log/messages. I had over
>> 200000 lines of this when I left it on for an 30 minute period. This is
>> just about couple seconds:
>> At least now I know I'm on the right track. Just seems that with a
>> supported chipset it would go better. This has been an
>> education................got to love Linux for that.
>>     
>
> The lines here:
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>>> Mar 27 14:01:14 localhost kernel: **RT2573**<7>--> NICLoadFirmware
>>> Mar 27 14:01:14 localhost kernel: **RT2573**<7>--> Error 2 opening
>>> /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73.bin
>>> Mar 27 14:01:14 localhost kernel: **RT2573**<7>NICLoadFirmware failed,
>>> used local Firmware(v 1.7) instead
>>>       
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> Seems to be a problem.  What distro are you running?  In Fedora.. my WNIC's
> firmware file is expected to be in /lib/firmware.  Mine is:
> # ls -al /lib/firmware/rt73.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Nov 23 01:02 /lib/firmware/rt73.bin
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> It looks like your kernel module was looking in /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73.bin
> instead.  If you do not have the firmware file, then you will need to
> download it and place it there.  First check to see if you have the file
> somewhere on the hard drive with "locate rt73.bin".  If not, then you can
> download firmware images from here:
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads
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> Tweeks
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*Wow you are good. Solved my problem, just wish I'd looked at the messages closer and saw what you did.  I also did the change to Managed from Ad-Hoc. This will make for good foder for my class. Thanks again for the help. 
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