I tried everything except for the extra character in setting the essid, stupid of me.....
]]>A couple of monts ago I had Arch running, with Wifi: the rt2570 driver from the serialmonkey site was working.
Till one day...A kernel upgrade, everything still worked except the wifi part.
I was very sad of course.
I did a test install with VectorLinux 5.8 -which has a SMP kernel enabled by default, at least that's what I saw with uname - and used the rt2570 driver again: it worked!
In the impression that something in the kernel had changed which solved the issue, I downloaded Arch 0.8 and installed. Then tried the rt2570 again, but nothing. I see the device, can do an iwconfig but I cannot connect. The weird thing is: when setting the essid and dislaying it, the last character is not displayed. For instance i do an
iwconfig rausb0 essid MYTESTESSID
and shown is ESSID="MYTESTESSI"
this does not happen in VectorLinux. Anyone got an idea what's happing?
And no, switching to VL is not an option
tia
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