[mdlug] [Tech Support] wifi USB CWD-854 RaLink rt2570 SuSE-10.0

[Jeff Hanson]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Robert Meier
<list1c30fe42 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Wifi users,
>
> Is anyone using the CNet CWD-854 USB Wifi adapter?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> rpm -qa suse-release: suse-release-10.0-7
> vendor:               CNet
> model:                Wireless-G USB Dongle
> model number:         CWD-854
> chipset:              RaLink rt2570
> interface:            USB
>
>
>
> Discoveries:
> 1. rt2570 driver reports no error when loading,
>   but rausb0 network interface fails to appear.
>    bash> od -v -t x1z -A x /lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/extra/rt2570.ko |
>          grep rausb
> 0293f0 6c 65 64 0a 00 72 61 75 73 62 25 64 00 3c 37 3e  >led..rausb%d.<7><
>    bash> sudo modprobe -a rt2570
> (reports no errors)
>    bash> sudo /sbin/lsmod | grep rt
> rt2570                239040  0
> usbcore               112640  4 rt2570,uhci_hcd,usblp
>    bash> sudo /sbin/ifconfig rausb0
> rausb0: unknown interface: No such device
>
> 2. Physically plugging in the device,
>   reports FATAL Error:
> Oct 14 02:07:50 * udevd-event[11757]:
> run_program:
> '/sbin/hwup' (stderr)
> 'FATAL: Module usb:v148Fp2573d0001dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFF not found.'

Searching for the USB id turned up this:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=349428