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System hangs when using a ralink based zaapa wireless card
Hi, I'm a complete profane to Linux, so please be patient I am using Knoppix v4 with an AMD 900 Mhz 512Mb computer. I've got a Zaapa WiFi card installed with Ralink chipset. It seems to be recognized but the first time I try to scan for networks, it won't see anything. If I try for second time, it just gets frozen.
Questions: Is this card supported? Where can I see if Knoppix is recognizing it? (something like system properties in windows) I have found drivers for the card in Internet, but must be compiled and although I have tried to do it, have no clue why it won't work. I'm a bit lost, as you can see...
Thanks a lot for your time.
Dån
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I have a similar problem when I boot with KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN.
The boot process stops at:
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP.
I have a ethernet card and a Foxconn Foxconn WLL-3350 PCI Wireless Adapter which
uses a Ralink chipset. It works just fine with Ubuntu 5.10.
I found that KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN does boot if I use the nodhcp cheat code:
boot: knoppix nodhcp
I can see the card in the Info Center.
KDE -> System -> KInfoCenter (Info Center)
then select PCI in the Index tab
reports the card as:
0000:00:0f.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
Subsystem: RaLink: Unknown device 2450
Flags: bus master, show devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at d9000000 (32-bin, non-prefetchable) [size=8k]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
I can get it up and runing with:
KDE -> KNOPPIX -> Network/Internet -> Network card configuration
In the Xdialog select "eth1 Netwerkkarte_1"
and Use DHCP broadcast? Yes
After that the nework is up and running as shown by ifconfig and a working Mozilla Firefox.
It looks like there is some silliness in the booting process that prevents the wireless card from working properly.
I also tried KNOPPIX 3.9 and 3.4 -- neither of them recognize the wireless card as a network interface.
George
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Same problem here when I boot with the KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-200509-23-EN.
I have a Ralink wireless card as well, on an Avertec 6100 series laptop.
The boot process stops at:
Network device eth0 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
Network device eth1 detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP. (Backgrounding)
I used the cheat-code as mentioned and it goes to the next line before hanging again (boot: knoppix nodhcp):
Skipping DHCP broadcast/network detection as requested . . .
Automounter started for: floppy cdrom.
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Any other options? Nevermind.
Looked into the tips and triks under the cheat-codes page and entered the usefull option for Laptops with the previous cheat-code and it worked!
boot: knoppix acpi=off pnpbios=off noapic noapm nodhcp
New problem!
Tried to get my wireless going as mentioned in the previous post:
In the KNOPPIX Menu -> Network/Internet -> Network card configuration
In the Xdialog select "eth1 Netwerkkarte_1"
and Use DHCP broadcast? Yes
and after that it says DHCP broadcast fails
So, I tried "eth0 Netwerkkarte_0" and then it just froze up, I thought Linux didn't freeze up completely?
Any solution for me to get my wireless card working?
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Yes solution is dont use linux at least knoppix or dont use rt2500 chip based card.
If you wanna use unix like system use PCBSD there my rt2500 (Asus wl-107g) card works.
And ubuntu or kubuntu (5.10) linux work well too with my card.
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