Asus pce-n13, RaLink/RT2860 not active

[kc7rwx]

Just built a new computer and I think I somehow need to activate my wireless card to get it working.

The hardware seems to show up. I get "Wireless Networks" in my network manager but it is grayed out and says disconnected.

I think it is an easy fix I just cannot find it.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Here is some diagnostic.


~$ hwinfo --wlan
> hal.1: read hal dataprocess 2841: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 280.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
34: PCI 500.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
Unique ID: y9sn.1pkKwSYwma0
Parent ID: bSAa.q_6W8Iijw6D
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/0000:05:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:05:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "RaLink RT2860"
Vendor: pci 0x1814 "RaLink"
Device: pci 0x0781 "RT2860"
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x130f
Driver: "rt2800pci"
Driver Modules: "rt2800pci"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfe4f0000-0xfe4fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 47 (no events)
HW Address: 70:71:bc:df:df:2a
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v00001814d00000781sv00001043sd0000130Fbc02sc80 i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: rt2800pci is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt2800pci"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: rt2860sta is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe rt2860sta"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #7 (PCI bridge)



~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

usb0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off


$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:62:6d:59:6a:d3
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:81 Base address:0xa000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:62:6d:59:6a:d5
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:83 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2a:ad:c0:fb:b7:a4
inet addr:192.168.42.164 Bcast:192.168.42.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::28ad:c0ff:fefb:b7a4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15872 errors:5 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:5
TX packets:14017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10031617 (10.0 MB) TX bytes:3480538 (3.4 MB)

[kc7rwx]

Quick note:
This wireless card works right from boot with Knoppix.

[kc7rwx]

Still struggling with this.
I came up with some new info today.


~$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied


Don't have any idea what this means.


~$ iwlist wlan0 power
wlan0 Current mode:off

It is a pcie card it does not have a power switch.

Any thoughts?

[kc7rwx]

I meant to run it with sudo but still no good


~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

[kc7rwx]

Found my solution in this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/594866

added:
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, than reboot


Everything is working fine now.