Wireless No-Go

Weaseal · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 24

I have a RaLink 2561/RT61 wireless miniPCI device in my laptop. The drivers in portage wouldn't compile, so I got them from the manufacturer's website (they have open source linux ones available). The drivers compile (with many warnings but no errors), and I am able to insmod rt61.ko.

After this, I am able to iwlist ra0 scanning, and see all of the available networks.

However, I cannot connect to any of them... iwconfig ra0 essid "Wireless" (or any other available name) returns no error, but iwconfig shows that it is not associated. DHCP fails.

I have also tried with wifi-radar and wicd:

If I reboot into Windows, everything works peachy.

See scrots:
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Should I try ndis with the Windows driver perhaps?

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:32 am Post subject:

Hi, what kind of encryption do you use ?

Also, I don't know, but you should try to make it work with wpa_supplicant and after that you should use a graphical tool to manage your Wifi.

the command line method is the best to debug theses kind of problem.

Weaseal · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 24

We aren't using any encryption at the moment.

IvanMajhen · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 392 Location: Croatia

Which kernel are you using? There are drivers in kernel 2.6.25 for your card.

d2_racing · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:40 am Post subject:

If it's inside the kernel, then you will have a good chance to make this thing works.

Weaseal · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Posts: 24