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I've been having a lot of trouble with my wireless connection dropping or not working at all. My setup:
Wifi card: CNet CWP-854 (Ralink RT2561T)
Router: FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN, Firmware version 08.04.26
I don't mind sharing my wifi so I'm running WEP security.
Packages I've got installed:
rt2x00-rt61-fw 1.2-4
wpa_supplicant 0.6.9-2
wireless_tools 29-3
netcfggui 0.5-1
netcfg 2.2.1-1
What's odd is that it'll sometimes connect and keep the connection for a while, and then it'll drop out unexpectedly and sometimes I can reconnect straightaway with "sudo /etc/rc.d/net-profiles restart"
while other times it'll take an hour of restarts before it connects again, I just get "- DHCP IP lease attempt failed."
I tried some Live CD's to test it out further.
gNewSense booted but there I get
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware
from dmesg (blob?) and no wifi.
Ubuntu (kernel 2.6.24-19) detected it fine and has been running for some hours now without the connection dropping. The Ubuntu hardware tester calls it:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
"lspci | grep Network"
gives the same result on Ubuntu and Arch:
04:05.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
Here are the lsmod results from both:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod|grep rt
rt61pci 25472 0
rt2x00pci 11264 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 22528 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
rfkill 8592 1 rt2x00lib
input_polldev 5896 1 rt2x00lib
crc_itu_t 3072 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 165652 3 rt61pci,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
eeprom_93cx6 3200 1 rt61pci
arch:~$ lsmod|grep rt
rt61pci 18712 0
rt2x00pci 4973 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 25533 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
led_class 2577 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 165605 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 122783 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 1320 1 rt61pci
crc_itu_t 1273 2 rt61pci,firewire_core
rtc_cmos 8904 0
rtc_core 14631 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 1810 1 rtc_core
I'm using network-profiles on Arch, and my /etc/rc.conf contains
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
NETWORKS=(home)
DAEMONS=(... !network !netfs @net-profiles ...)
where /etc/network.d/home has my ESSID, WEP key etc.
Can anyone give me a hint as to why my connection keeps dropping? I'm close to buying a new network card just to try it out, but seeing as Ubuntu managed it fine I'm not sure what to do...
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Gave up on this and bought a D-Link G-520 instead; works great with ath_pci (blacklisting ath5k in rc.conf) and net-profiles, no problems at all so far :-)
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