From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 09/27/2012 10:31 PM, Adam wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Yep, those are good questions.  The ones that I don't have an answer for   
   > yet, I need to look into.  "eris" has a wired card as part of the   
   > motherboard, and I've had no problems with that under any distro I've   
   > tried it with.  Its PCI wireless card is a Ralink which uses the   
   > rt2661.bin driver which I had to download from the Ralink web site, and   
   > that driver's loaded in the two distros which have a working wireless   
   > connection.   
   >   
   > Now the part where I need to find more answers.  (I'm using another   
   > distro to write and post this.)  The Ralink rt2661 driver is installed   
   > in Mageia but from looking at its /var/log/messages file, Mageia /may/   
   > be trying to use the rt61pci driver instead.  The most common relevant   
   > messages there seem to be "device is not ready" and "link beat not   
   > detected".  I'll reboot into Mageia and investigate some more.  I'm   
   > trying to connect first to my router, since all my 'net traffic passes   
   > through that.  All works fine with a wired connection, but so far a   
   > wireless connection can't even successfully ping the router.   
   >   
   I tried the proprietary driver with the device I couldn't get to work   
   with Mageia 2 with the drakx tools, and I couldn't get it to work,   
   either. Suggestion: if you haven't already, install the   
   kernal-firmware-nonfree package. It contains firmware not included on   
   the DVD because it's not open source. Some distros include the firmware,   
   some don't. Such firmware was needed by both of my devices before they   
   would function. Also, try removing the proprietary driver. Sometimes   
   they conflict with the open source one. Or so I've read.   
      
   Good thing this discussion is labelled OT. It belongs in a Mageia group.   
      
   TJ   
      
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