RT2500STA.dat in the Modules/ directory of the source tarball is in DOS format. I reported my suspicions to Mark at serialmonkey and he confirmed it. Here's the thread - http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=96 . He's corrected the problem in CVS, but the beta tarballs still contain the DOS formated config file RT2500STA.dat. To correct the problem for the ebuild, RT2500STA.dat could be manually extracted from the CVS tarball and added the the rt2500 ebuilds' "files/" directory and have the ebuild copy the file from there upon installation. The new beta tarballs will contain the fix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge rt2500 2. Try to configure the module by manually editing RT2500STA.dat file 3. modprobe rt2500 4. config file isn't correctly parsed by system because it is a DOS format file. Actual Results: Config file isn't correctly parsed by system because it is a DOS format file. iwconfig shows: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. " RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"homenet Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Bit Rate:54 Mb/s RTS thr=2312 B Fragment thr=2312 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:60 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Notice the first line of the wireless section. Strange use of quotes and no ra0 interface. Expected Results: Passed the manually edited RT2500STA.dat config file thru "dos2unix" and voila it works: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"homenet" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bit Rate:54 Mb/s RTS thr=2312 B Fragment thr=2312 B Encryption key:off Link Quality=81/100 Signal level:-202 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
thanks, fixed
