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#1 2010-06-27 22:01:26

elkamehn
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[SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

I have an Asus Eee PC 901 with RT2860 wireless, and I can't get it to connect to my WPA wireless network. I've installed Arch with Gnome and NetworkManager. I'm using the 2.6.34 stock kernel.

I can scan for and see different wireless networks, but when I try to connect to mine the network manager applet never connects, just asks for the WPA password again. The password is correct, and my other laptop connects fine.

I've searched around and seen other people having firmware problems with the RT2860. I don't appear to get an error when I run ifconfig wlan0 up. The linux-firmware package is installed.

I've also disabled the modules in rc.conf as suggested in other posts:

MODULES=(!rt2800pci !rt2800usb !rt2x00pci !rt2x00usb !rt2800lib !rt2x00lib

but I still have the same problem.

Where can I go from here?

Last edited by elkamehn (2010-06-30 20:55:03)

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#2 2010-06-27 22:28:45

mjs
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From: Tucson, Arizona
Registered: 2010-06-26
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

I have an EeePC 1000 -- same hardware as the 901 with a bigger screen.

Do you have rt2860sta specifically enabled as a module? Post the entire MODULES section of your /etc/rc.conf

Do you have 'network' specifically disabled and networkmanager enabled as daemons?

Your DAEMONS line should look something like this:

DAEMONS=(alsa !network dbus hal @syslog-ng netfs @crond cups networkmanager)

The network daemon interferes with networkmanager. That should be disabled and dbus should come before hal, and hal should come before networkmanager.

Give that a try.

Also, I found NetworkManager to be fairly unreliable in general. Have you tried using Wicd?

Last edited by mjs (2010-06-27 22:39:36)


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#3 2010-06-28 15:26:42

DmC
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

@mjs How did you get your rt2860 driver to work with wicd?
Because I can't seem to get mine to work.

Edit:
I thought these would be relevant to my question:

MODULES=(rt2860sta !rt2800pci !rt2x00pci !rt2x00usb !rt2800lib !rt2x00lib)
INTERFACE=(!eth0 !wlan0)
DAEMONS=(alsa !network dbus hal @syslog-ng netfs @crond wicd !networkmanager)

Last edited by DmC (2010-06-28 15:35:10)

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#4 2010-06-28 16:19:13

mjs
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From: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

DmC,

Change your INTERFACE from:

INTERFACE=(!eth0 !wlan0)

to

INTERFACE=(eth0 wlan0)

You need to bring those interfaces back up if you want to use them. Remove the '!' from each.

Also, you have networkmanager disabled in your daemons. If you don't have it installed, just delete that part. If you do have it installed, then do 'pacman -Rs networkmanager' because having two different wireless network tools installed at the same time can conflict. So delete '!networkmanager' and leave wicd there.


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#5 2010-06-28 18:13:56

DmC
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

Did all what you said I should do but I couldn't see my own wireless network.
So I changed the wireless network frequency and then it appeared in wicd and now it works.

So thanks for your help!

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#6 2010-06-30 20:54:41

elkamehn
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Registered: 2010-06-27
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Connect with WPA & RT2860 Wireless

I made rt2860sta specifically enabled, and ensured "network" as disabled in DAEMONS but I still didn't have any luck.

I then tried using Wicd instead, and it worked perfectly! I guess it was a problem with NetworkManager.

Thank you for your help!

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