WL-227N_ABAND Hardware & Driver Reference
DRIvER INSTALLATION
9. Setup and bootstrap WL-227N_ABAND NIC:
a. Setup WL-227N_ABAND NIC:
insmod /etc/Wireless/RT2880/module/rt2880_iNIC.ko mode=sta
• If it shows “
ra0:Ralink iNIC at 0xe0cc0000
(hardware address),
00:43:0c:00:00:00
(MAC address),
IRQ169
(IRQ address)”, the NIC is
boot strap successfully.
b. Bootstrap NIC parameters:
• IP address:
ifconfig ra0 inet 192.168.0.11 up
• If it shows the message as below, it is bootstrap successfully:
Send STARTUP to RT2880
close Firmware file
RACFG_CMD_BOOT_STARTUP
Update MAC(0)=00:11:22:33:44:55
Or, type [ifconfig ra0] configuration. If it shows the message as below,
it is bootstrap successfully, too:
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
inet addr:192.168.0.122 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:22ff:fe33:4455/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2235102 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2236428 (2.1 MiB)
Interrupt:169
c. Setup NIC connect function:
Setup NIC frequency band: iwpriv ra0 set WirelessMode=9
Setup NIC connect target of AP: iwpriv ra0 set SSID=dlink
type [iwconfig ra0] configuration. If it shows the message as below,
it is connect successfully:
ra0 RT2880 iNIC STA ESSID:”dlink”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:C6:69:BE:95
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=91/100 Signal level:-72 dBm Noise level:-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
