Newbie question about setting up a wireless USB device as a router.

Hi. I have this Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, which used to be very useful for getting my DS and Wii online (I don't have a wireless router.)
By using some modified drivers from Buffalo I think, I eventually manage to install it as an ordinary wireless device and later set it up as an all-purpose wi-fi router device. I want to do exactly this in Arch if possible.
As far as I know, there are no real drivers for this device, but I tried some, and got stuck later on.
I basically want to simply be able to use my laptop, PS3, Wii and DS on it. Nothing fancy, and no encryption, as I only use it when necessary.
After plugging the device in the USB, I ran
$ hwdetect --show-net
NET : forcedeth ppp_generic slhc mac80211 rfkill rt2500usb rt2x00lib rt2x00usb cfg80211
I looked like it's was quite ordinary actually. So I tried modprobing rt2500usb (should I modprobe the 2 others too?).
Surprise, surprise! I haven't edited my /etc/rc.conf at all yet.
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Link Quality:0 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
Well, at least it detected my wlan. I haven't been able to test if I can actually get online with this thing as there is no network to try on around here.
So, where do I go from here? The KISS way, if you know what I mean, hehehe
- Thanks in advance.
This is my ifconfig -a if useful:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:60:87:18:D5
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:60ff:fe87:18d5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2272 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2401773 (2.2 Mb) TX bytes:450333 (439.7 Kb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:280 (280.0 b) TX bytes:280 (280.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:0B:C3:18:F2
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-0D-0B-C3-18-F2-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Checked around, and I need master mode to be able to do this, however, the drivers I have don't support it :\ Any way to get better drivers somehow?:p
Last edited by Themaister (2008-08-08 06:41:30)

Thank you. Got a bit further, but probably not in the right direction  : [
Figured out that the WFC uses the rt2570 chipset (according to wikipedia), which I downloaded from the link you gave. Installed it, and had to blacklist the other ralink-modules that were present for it to work.
Now, my iwconfig looks like this:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
rausb0 RT2500USB WLAN ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Monitor Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-120 dBm Noise level:-82 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Well, it apperaently did something.
By looking at the lsmod it only shows up the rt2570.
Well, sudo iwconfig rausb0 mode master returns the same error I had ... :[
Does this mean I'm screwed? xD
EDIT: The forums on that site suggested that the master mode was disabled in the legacy drivers (and the other drivers for that matter) :[
Well, dual boot here we go
Last edited by Themaister (2008-08-10 19:48:36)

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