[Debian-eeepc-devel] Ralink problems

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Matthew Johnson, Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:40:42PM +0100 |=-
> I have an EEE1000 and I'm having problems getting the wireless to 
> work.
> Symptoms are:
> 
> driver loads, ra0 wireless device appears.
> 
> iwlist scan works:
> 
> ra0       Scan completed :
>           Cell 01 - Address: 00:09:5B:3F:E2:BB
>                     ESSID:"milton"
>                     Mode:Managed
>                     Channel:1
>                     Quality:50/100  Signal level:-70 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
>                     Encryption key:on
>                     Bit Rates:11 Mb/s
> 
> but when I set the essid and key using iwconfig (it's WEP) iwconfig
> doesn't  reflect this change:
> 
> ra0       RT2860 Wireless  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2860STA"
>           Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Bit Rate=1 Mb/s   
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:off
>           Link Quality=10/100  Signal level:0 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> and trying to dhclient doesn't work.
> 
> I'm using the ra2860-source package from your repo installed using
> m-a a-i against linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 on lenny. 

There is a patch (03_fix-wpa.patch) applied to the source, enabling 
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT and HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT defines.

These are needed for proper wpa_supplicant and network-manager 
operation. My very blind guess is that they may interfere with proper 
WEP operation. Can you try disabling this part of the patch, build and 
see if it makes a difference?

> I was hoping someone might have some ideas, given that I'm told 
> people definitely have it working.

Hm, I never tried WEP so I better shut up.


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