Two hopefully simple problems - An RT2500 card and a weird DVD-drive problem.

[Pinchie]

So I finally got around to getting myself a new fileserver/media box.. after some expected frustrations with the RT2500 wireless card I got it working... until I reboot. Then there's this wlan0.bak card with the correct settings and the card now called wlan0 has a few of the settings missing. Any idea how to stop this?

The second problem is strange - to me, at least. The DVD drive simply doesn't work under X. I can mount it fine in a terminal, and it auto-mounts fine on insertion but the CD/DVD drive icon in computer doesn't work under any circumstance and often even disappears. The automount opens up a window to the /media/cdrom directory instead of handling it as a drive like it normally would - this makes it a big problem when I want to watch DVDs.

Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted

[Pinchie]

Alrighty... fresh morning; fresh perspective.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the RT2500 card.. now it's not making a copy, but it's not retaining the correct settings. If I want it to get an IP I have to:

iwconfig wlan0 rate auto
iwconfig wlan0 key ABCDEABCDE restricted
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6

and then I can dhclient myself a nice IP address. (abcdeabcde isn't my key.. just a replacement)
iwconfig wlan0 commit gives me an error, and I've made sure that the ifcfg-wlan0 file matches the correct settings - it does. Any further ideas?

On the DVD problem, the only new light I can shed on it is that I get the following error if I don't have a disc in the drive when I boot.

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ]
Mounting local filesystems: [FAILED]

Also I can't right click on the drive icon in Computer and eject it. I receive the error "Unable to mount media. There is probably no media in the drive.". That's right... when I try to eject it. Weird.

I can do eject /dev/hdc fine though.




Any thoughts?

[Pinchie]

Added the lines

KEY="ABCDEABCDE"
SECURITYMODE=restricted

to the ifcfg-wlan0 file and now the network card's OK on boot. I'd disregarded this since system-config-network seemed to retain the key and the channel was also changing.. I assume now that the channel was reset because the nic failed to get an IP.

So that's half the problem solved.. now what's with this silly DVD drive?

[Pinchie]

The DVD drive is a hardware issue

I just popped in the Pioneer drive from my old fileserver (the one this new box will replace) and there's no such problem.

The DVD±RW model's an ASUS DRW-1612BL

Any ideas? I haven't heard of a DVD drive being incompatible with linux... Especially since it's the drive I installed FC6 on.