Ralink wireless card does not work [SOLVED]

[powery]

It works after reboot, thanks for help

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

You're most welcome

[xurdefdez]

Hi,
 I follow the steps to upgrade linux kernel and copy firmware. At first it works but after reboot it fails. I cant get wlan0 up

xurde@worky:~$ iwlist scanning
eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     Failed to read scan data : Network is down

xurde@worky:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Error de entrada/salida

Anyone can help me? Thx

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Which driver did you install ?

What is the output from:

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sudo lshw -C network

and

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iwconfig

and

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rfkill list

[xurdefdez]

I installed the kernel 3.7.2 and copy the rt3290.bin firmaware to /lib/firmware

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xurde@worky:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network DESACTIVADO   
       descripción: Interfaz inalámbrica
       producto: Ralink corp.
       fabricante: Ralink corp.
       id físico: 0
       información del bus: pci@0000:01:00.0
       nombre lógico: wlan0
       versión: 00
       serie: a4:17:31:08:24:4b
       anchura: 32 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuración: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       recursos: irq:16 memoria:c2510000-c251ffff
  *-network
       descripción: Ethernet interface
       producto: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       fabricante: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       id físico: 0
       información del bus: pci@0000:02:00.0
       nombre lógico: eth0
       versión: 05
       serie: 84:34:97:7a:29:12
       tamaño: 100Mbit/s
       capacidad: 100Mbit/s
       anchura: 64 bits
       reloj: 33MHz
       capacidades: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuración: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.33 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       recursos: irq:42 ioport:3000(size=256) memoria:c2404000-c2404fff memoria:c2400000-c2403fff

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xurde@worky:~$ iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        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

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xurde@worky:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Sometimes after reboot it works but normally not.

[xurdefdez]

Ok, I have a clue. If I reboot the wifi doesn't work, buy if I shutdown and then boot, the wifi works fine.

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Is this a laptop ?

If so, what is the make/model ?

What's the output from:

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lsmod | grep rt

and

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lspci -vnn | grep -i net

[xurdefdez]

Yes, it is a Laptop, Sleekbook HP Pavilion 14-b000ss http://h20386.www2.hp.com/SpainStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=C0T87EA&opt=ABE&sel=PCNB

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xurde@worky:~$ lsmod | grep rt
parport_pc             32866  0 
rt2800pci              18754  0 
rt2800lib              67481  1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt              12707  1 rt2800lib
rt2x00pci              14578  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib              55503  3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
mac80211              626881  3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
rtsx_pci_ms            13180  0 
cfg80211              525244  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
memstick               16605  1 rtsx_pci_ms
eeprom_93cx6           13344  1 rt2800pci
parport                46562  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
rtsx_pci_sdmmc         17800  0 
rtsx_pci               28709  2 rtsx_pci_ms,rtsx_pci_sdmmc

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xurde@worky:~$ lspci -vnn | grep -i net
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3290]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

That's a weird problem .. are you 100% sure it ALWAYS works if you shut down rather than reboot ?

[xurdefdez]

Yes, paying attention at rebooting I've seen a message about disconnect IRQ16, I think it is any kind of hardware problem. Shutdown instead of reboot isn't critic, i think I'll leave it

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

The exact message may help .. but if you're happy to just shut down instead.

I wonder if disabling APIC would help ?

[xurdefdez]

The error in reboot was

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[    3.474662] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[    3.474705] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.8.6-030806-generic #201304051406
[    3.474706] Call Trace:
[    3.474708]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810f0d5d>] __report_bad_irq+0x3d/0xe0
[    3.474720]  [<ffffffff810f1185>] note_interrupt+0x135/0x190
[    3.474724]  [<ffffffff810ee999>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0xa9/0x210
[    3.474727]  [<ffffffff810eeb4e>] handle_irq_event+0x4e/0x80
[    3.474730]  [<ffffffff810f1d64>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x64/0x120
[    3.474735]  [<ffffffff81016702>] handle_irq+0x22/0x40
[    3.474739]  [<ffffffff816f78ea>] do_IRQ+0x5a/0xe0
[    3.474743]  [<ffffffff816ed36d>] common_interrupt+0x6d/0x6d
[    3.474744]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff81585ad3>] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x53/0xa0
[    3.474752]  [<ffffffff81585ac9>] ? cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x49/0xa0
[    3.474755]  [<ffffffff81585b30>] cpuidle_enter_tk+0x10/0x20
[    3.474758]  [<ffffffff815856ef>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xaf/0x2b0
[    3.474763]  [<ffffffff8101daef>] cpu_idle+0xcf/0x120
[    3.474767]  [<ffffffff816cac69>] start_secondary+0xc3/0xc5
[    3.474769] handlers:
[    3.474786] [<ffffffff81508a30>] usb_hcd_irq
[    3.474813] Disabling IRQ #16

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

do you know how to add

irqpoll

as a kernel boot parameter ?

If that doesn't work, try

pci=routeirq

instead.

If neither help .. what's the output from:

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cat /proc/interrupts

?