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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:34 pm    Post subject: Wireless with rt2400 driver [Solved] Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to a wireless access point with WEP encryption. My wireless card is CNWL-311, which I believe should use the RaLink rt2400 driver. I downloaded the driver from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and installed it. Now i run
Code:
# modprobe rt2400
# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rt2400                 79040  0

# iwconfig ra0 essid "My.essid"
# iwconfig ra0 key "my-WEP-key"
# ifconfig ra0 up
# iwconfig ra0

ra0       RT2400PCI  ESSID:"essid" 
          Mode:Managed  Channel=1  Bit Rate:11 Mb/s   
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx   Security mode:restricted
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2156 (2.1 Kb)  TX bytes:2156 (2.1 Kb)

ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:A1:69:68:AD 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000


However, I can't seem to find the access point no matter what I do. Is there some configuration I'm missing? Running
Code:
# dhcpcd ra0

just results in a timeout. iwlist ra0 scan just reports the interface doesn't support scanning. I've tried different channels too, without any success.

Thanks in advance.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure WHICH ralink chipset you have. You might need the rt2500 instead of rt2400.
Code:
lspci | grep Network

If you don't have lspci, it's inluded in the ebuild "pciutils"

Some known issues. Make sure none apply to you:
- SMP kernels and processors not supported
- 4k kernel stacks not supported - use 8k kernel stacks
- I've heard that amd64 had problems in the past. Don't know if it's still an issue.

You may try scanning "iwlist ra0 scan" BEFORE setting anything with iwconfig or iwpriv.

Any of that info help?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the reply overkll.

My friend managed to set up my wireless connection.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're welcome! Lucky you!

Make sure to add [solved] to the subject line of this thread (edit first post).
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