Making the Switch to Linux

[CrazyLazy]

Okay I am currently trying to reinstall the wireless drivers. The new problem is my ethernet, which I need to download the drivers, doesn't work. I think the issue is I just have an IPv6, but no IPv4. If that is the problem how can I make it recognize the IPv4 too?

 

[Nothinman]

It should get an IPv4 address via DHCP just fine, I can't remember the last time I saw an ethernet card that didn't work with Linux.

 

[CrazyLazy]

It was working briefly, but now it is just seeing IPv6 again. In the brief time it was working I managed to download the wireless driver from this tutorial: http://forums.msiwind.net/debi...ralink-card-t5864.html. When I tried to install it told me "Error: A later version is already installed". I appreciate the help thus far.

 

[Nothinman]

If you run 'dpkg -l 'rt2860*' what shows up?

If you run 'modprobe rt2860' and then 'iwconfig' does it show a wireless interface?

 

[CrazyLazy]

for dpkg I get,

\Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii rt2860-source 1.8.0.0-3 source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel mo



modprobe rt2860 tells me the module is not found. iwconfig finds no wireless extensions.

 

[Nothinman]

I'm thinking there might be a step missing in those instructions, because you have the source for the module installed and it says to install dkms but it doesn't have a step where you tell dkms to build the module but that might be an automatic thing.

Did you install the rt2860 package before or after dkms?

 

[CrazyLazy]

I installed the rt2860 package before. Right now I'm trying to reinstall the driver and start over. I can't do that right now though because my ethernet isn't seeing the IPv4 again. It's totally possible I messed something up with that trying to make the wireless work, is there any way to reset all that to defaults?

 

[Nothinman]

If you type 'ifdown eth0;ifup eth0' what happens? That should take down and bring up the interface.

 

[CrazyLazy]

ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
ifup: failed to open statefile var/run/network/ifstate: Permission denied

 

[CrazyLazy]

I finally got the driver installed and the wireless is working. Thank you everyone for the invaluable assistance.

 

[Nothinman]

Sorry, guess I shoulda mentioned that you need to run those ifup/ifdown commands through sudo.