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[Maribeth Seagers]

Ibought a new PC with the AsRock Z77 Extreme 4m motherboard, since this has no WLAN, I extracted the WLAN card from my old PC, a Ralink RT 2571 WF, an connected it to the new board. I downloaded the driver from _support/support.php?sn=500 (the RT257x USB one) and installed it. In the device manager, an unknown device shows up, but if I tell it to search its driver, it does not find it (searching in the whole C partition).

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I'm running arch on an eee pc 901, and everything was working great until I updated to the 2.6.33 kernel today. I found that upon rebooting my wireless was no longer working. I'm not quite sure why, but the device wlan0 is present in iwconfig but not ifconfig. running 'ifconfig wlan0 up' results in SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory. I saw another thread in which a similar issue was discussed but for a broadcom driver; however it seemed that the issue was fairly specific to that driver. Below I have posted some messages that i get:

This happened to me as well with my eeepc 1000H. I incidentally had kernel-netbook from AUR compiled, which is also 2.6.33 but it works there. I guess that just means that our module is selected in kernel-netbook by default but didn't get enabled in this run of 2.6.33-ARCH.

I have no experience with your hardware, but it seems to me that you have two drivers loaded for one device - rt2860sta, from the kernel's staging area, and rt2800pci, from the mainline rt2x00 driver series. That is never good. Blacklist the one you don't want, and try again - or blacklist each in turn, and see which gives the best results.

Also, rt2800pci is looking for a specific firmware file - rt2860.bin - which doesn't seem to be provided by any Arch package. I'm sure the devs will remedy that, but in the meantime you can get the firmware here.

Thankyou for your help. I do not have a firmware file at the location mentioned. However, I followed tomk's advice. Whilst running, I unloaded the rt2x00* and rt2800* modules and then reloaded the rt2860 module... success! However I am unable to prevent the rt2x00 and rt2800 related modules loading at boot. I put the names of all of them in the modules=() in rc.conf, preceeded with ! to no avail. Any ideas, the guys on irc reckon it might be related to udev...

No idea why rc.conf blacklisting didn't work for you - it works fine here, although for other unrelated modules. Any chance you're loading them in your initramfs image? You shouldn't be, but it might be worth checking.

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The rt2860sta driver does work, but only at G speed not N. I also tried the ralink 2.3.0.0 driver, but it is even slower than the kernel driver. With 2.6.32 kernel, I was able to get N speed from their 2.1.2.0 driver, but that one won't compile anymore. I've had nothing but trouble with this card for the last year.

Had a same problem since 2.36.32 and this thread finally helped me.

I disabled both rt2800pci and rt2x00pci in rc.conf. After reboot no luck. Than i noticed that card name is change from ra0 to wlan0 so i had to change that in wicd and it works!

I guess that that network interface name should be changed even in rc.conf

thanx!

General impression seems to be 2860sta is the better choice for now. It would probably be helpful, though, if people tested the rt2x00 as well, see how it progresses. I remember similar situations with earlier rt2x00 drivers e.g. rt73 etc.

i have a usb wireless made by compusa. chipset ralink rt2571 . i installed the driver from ratlink website, it work fine . the problem is everytime after i restart the computer they dont detect the device i have to unplug and put it right backin, it work again. anyone know how to fix this problem ? please help me . thank you very much and have great day.

Search the forum for Ralink Replug....Worked for me.....the more complex alternative that worked for me is Deleting the kext cache files in "/System/Library" before reboot. This enables all devices to be redetected on startup including your USB WiFi adapter.

When using rt2800pci driver, the connection intermittently disconnects and fails to reconnect until one toggles the wireless via the hardware key (f12) off and then back on. After that it will connect but only for a little while before once again dropping the connection. Connection to some routers is more prone to disconnection than others. I tried changing channels, encryption protocol (wpa//wpa2), even a/b/g/n with no consistent results.

However, if I type "sudo ifconfig ra0 up" the device does come up in "iwconfig" and "ifconfig", the LED on the keyboard turns on, and I can even scan for wireless networks via "iwlist scan" but the network-manager does not recognize existence of wireless. I also tried restarting network-manager and rebooting the machine and that had no effect.

Could this be because the wireless device is using ra0 as opposed to wlan0 (as was the case with the old wireless card) or is there something else causing problems? If so, how could one change this? Any suggestions regarding this would be most appreciated.

I have the same problem, only mine only does it on start-up and shutdown. Brand new dv7 3174 right out of the box and it's got deffects. Does HP not turn these on and test them before putting them on shelves??? This is ridiculous it's gone on this long and HP has offered no solution. Also i spoke to HP on the phone today and they state that there is no record of this being an issue.......... yet all one has to do is google the issue to find out that most if not all of there customers are experiencing these same issues. I personally would not buy HP again after this, the sales guy tried to talk me into buying a different name brand at the store and I didn't listen cause I liked the DV7, so maybe I brought this on myself. SHAME ON HP FOR THERE TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT ALONG WITH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

I purchased dv7-3188cl at Sam's club. The speakers popped when I turned computer on and turned it off. The one on floor did not pop. I bought a replacement ( the same model). The speakers on it also pops. Has HP provided a real solution. I hate to keep a $ 900 computer that has problems out of the box! It other wise seems ok.

Hi andmail. You are certainly right. I have the same bug in my Slimline s5330la with Win7. It started as soon as I took it out of the box. Any media file sounds distorted with a very annoying intermitent "buzz". Updating the BIOS (to V5.07) and reinstalling the Realtek HD Audio driver didn't help.

I agree with you that this doesn't seems as a "sound" problem since when a song is being played with the HP MediaSmart program and the title of the song appears on the screen, the name of the song "jumps" and "freezes" at the same time as the distortion appears as if the machine got some kind of interference (like the one you get when a cellphone is near a speaker).

I thought I had a sound problem but after following your advice and checking the latency of my PC (brand new slimline s5330la) I realized that the problem was not the sound driver but the wireless driver.

Disabiling the 802.11n Wireless PCI Express Card Lan Adapter "corrects" the problem. This is not a solution given what without that driver you are off-line! However, at least it is more clear what the problem is.

It didn't solve my problem. This stupid crackling and popping then stuttering just started happening last week.. wtf causes this? Sometimes it happens randomly other times it will never happen. However I can make it happen just by turning on DrJava which is a required program for one of my college courses.

It's not an HP problem, it appears to be an issue with WIndows 7. Both my Toshiba laptop and my HP desktop (not as bad though) has this issue (and they have different versions of the Realtek audio chip.) I have noticed that this tends to happen when there is considerable hard drive read/write activity.

UPDATE: I've been doing some research on the issue and apparently built-in pci-e WiFi cards can cause spikes. I disabled my onboard wireless card (through device manager) and according to the DPC latency checker the spikes have disappeared.

I dunno but I just bought for 1 a MicraDigital/Belkin 802.11g Wireless USB Adapter last week from a dude on my local market. I haven't installed it as I have no need for it but it looks quite cool. There is a driver for 98/ME on the CD and it's called O4501U9X.sys. There are also PCI cards but I am thinking that perhaps a USB one is more flexible. I haven't checked but I think it's the kind of stuff that can be found easily for dirt cheap on eBay.

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