[Debian-eeepc-devel] no WEP with rt2860

Pierre Meurisse pierre.meurisse at laposte.net
Fri Nov 7 06:52:56 UTC 2008


Hi!

I can't get a wifi WEP encrypted connection with my eeepc 1000H.

Network controller: RaLink Device 0781
Subsystem: RaLink Device 2790
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rt2860
Kernel modules: rt2860sta

I got the rt2860sta module from sid :

pier at eeepmsid~% aptitude show rt2860-source
Paquet : rt2860-source
État: installé
Automatiquement installé: non
Version : 1.8.0.0-2


My machine works with updated sid.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rt2860-source depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co

Versions of packages rt2860-source recommends:
ii  debhelper                     7.0.17     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11.0  tool to make module package creati

Versions of packages rt2860-source suggests:
ii  make                          3.81-5     The GNU version of the "make" util





In /etc/network/interfaces, I have :

allow hotplug ra0
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
        wireless-essid _my_essid_
        wireless-key _my_key_

This works with 3 other machines.

I tried too :

allow-hotplug ra0
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
        # wireless-essid _my_essid_
        ifup /usr/sbin/iwpriv ra0 set SSID=_my_essid_ ; \
        /usr/sbin/iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WEPAUTO ; \
        /usr/sbin/iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=WEP
        wireless-key _my_key_

Doesn't work either.


I copied RT2860STA.dat from /usr/share/doc/rt2860-modules-2.6.26-1-686/examples/RT2860STA.dat
into /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/ and put my essid and key to proper (I think) place.

All I can get is :

pier at eeepmsid~% sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.
1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/ra0/00:22:43:24:0a:3f
Sending on   LPF/ra0/00:22:43:24:0a:3f
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on ra0 to 192.168.2.1 port 67
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
    SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/ra0/00:22:43:24:0a:3f
Sending on   LPF/ra0/00:22:43:24:0a:3f
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
...
DHCPDISCOVER on ra0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
done.


With WPA encryption, it worsk all right.

Is there anything else to try or shall I send a bug report ?


-- 
Pierre Meurisse



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