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thelee
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 Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: wifi problems |
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So I recently just finished building my own linux box, loading it with gentoo, of course.
For the most part, set up was fine, but the real stickler is wireless.
My wifi is built into my mobo (ASUS P5K-E Wifi/AP-Solo), but from my research it's a Realtek 8187 chipset.
I'm using the in-kernel drivers (compiled as module), and trying to do this setup with wpa_supplicant.
The problem is, when I run | Code: | | wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -d |
everything appears to be going peachy (no discernable error messages), and I even get a "CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED" and dmesg ends up showing "wlan0: associated", but ifconfig is showing that wlan0 doesn't have an ip address, and checking my router's list of dhcp clients doesn't show my cpu. I'm very very very confused as to what exactly is failing (silently, apparently) after dmesg's "associated" or "State: GROUP_HANDSHAKE -> COMPLETED"/"CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to MACADDRESS completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]"
There are some extra lines after that in the wpa_supplicant debug output, but nothing stands out as being indicative of an error.
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jpl888
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Location: Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland.
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Hi I used an RTL8187 some months ago and found the driver to be very bad ended up replacing it with an Atheros chipset.
You might be able to find more information by going into wpa_cli and monitoring any messages that come up.
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thelee
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well, after reading lots of log files and doing alot of research, i finally solved it
...by getting an atheros-chipset wifi PCI card.
I guess, especially the realtek chipset on my asus mobo, has some minor proprietary changes that breaks it from every piece of open-source solution out there (i even started brute forcing different svn revisions of rtl-wifi to see if i could get it to work). Then I tossed my hands up, bought a cheap D-LINK atheros chipset, and had it up and running within 20 minutes. *sigh* |
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