[Debian-eeepc-devel] Ralink problems

Charles-André Roy caroy at soleiljaune.com
Thu Oct 2 12:55:17 UTC 2008


Hi:

I have a similar problem with my EeePC 900.

Yesterday, I connected to my home router using WICD.  When I did
iwconfig, my router was there but with no Encryption key.  At the end
of the session, I disconnected manually but could not reconnect with
WICD. I got an authentication problem message.

This morning, iwconfig shows an Encryption key.

Cheers!

Charles


Le Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:40:42 +0100,
Matthew Johnson <mjj29 at debian.org> a écrit :

> Hi guys, 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> dmesg shows:
> 
> [  112.820709] RX DESC f6ec5000  size = 2048
> [  112.821329] <-- RTMPAllocTxRxRingMemory, Status=0
> [  112.825909] I/F(ra0) Key1Str is Invalid key length! KeyLen = 0!
> [  112.825957] I/F(ra0) Key2Str is Invalid key length! KeyLen = 0!
> [  112.826002] I/F(ra0) Key3Str is Invalid key length! KeyLen = 0!
> [  112.826047] I/F(ra0) Key4Str is Invalid key length! KeyLen = 0!
> [  112.826631] 1. Phy Mode = 9
> [  112.826640] 2. Phy Mode = 9
> [  112.847292] RTMPSetPhyMode: channel is out of range, use first
> channel=1 [  112.854582] 3. Phy Mode = 9
> [  112.855635] MCS Set = ff ff 00 00 01
> [  112.861883] <==== RTMPInitialize, Status=0
> [  112.861962] 0x1300 = 00064300
> [  122.937700] ra0: no IPv6 routers present
> [  161.505226] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 2(2) BSS returned, data->length
> = 198
> 
> I was hoping someone might have some ideas, given that I'm told people
> definitely have it working.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt



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