NOCARRIER Wireless ... timed out

jogan · 2010-07-25 06:42:43

Thanks in advance for any help.

Eight months ago Arch (2009.08) wireless worked fine on this notebook. Had issues with kde so I went back to Mepis wireless on another laptop. I really believe Arch is the system for me. All other issues have been adequately resolved with wiki, forum and google; however, I must admit this wireless problem is above my pay grade.

Thanks again for your help.

jogan

[root@jobox cadm]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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

[root@jobox cadm]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@jobox cadm]# iwconfig wlan0 essid "F63E94"
[root@jobox cadm]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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

[root@jobox cadm]# dhcpcd wlan0
dhcpcd[26213]: version 5.2.5 starting
dhcpcd[26213]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[26213]: timed out
[root@jobox cadm]# man dhcpcd
[root@jobox cadm]# dhcpcd -d wlan0
dhcpcd[26291]: version 5.2.5 starting
dhcpcd[26291]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
dhcpcd[26291]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason NOCARRIER
dhcpcd[26291]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[26291]: timed out
[root@jobox cadm]# lsmod | grep 'rt'
rt2860sta 561884 1
iTCO_vendor_support 1457 1 iTCO_wdt
agpgart 23120 2 drm,intel_agp
crc_ccitt 1071 1 rt2860sta
rtc_cmos 7578 0
rtc_core 11823 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 1486 1 rtc_core
[root@jobox cadm]# ifconfig wlan0 down
[root@jobox cadm]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@jobox cadm]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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

hokasch · 2010-07-25 07:04:32

Make sure you are connnected to the AP first, or running dhcpd is pointless. There are examples for different encryption modes in the wiki.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … nual_setup

P.S.: please use the code tags.

JackH79 · 2010-07-25 07:22:53

Did you have a look at this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … and_rt2870?

jogan · 2010-07-25 08:18:06

How do I connect to AP?

rc.conf modules
MODULES=(rt2860sta !rt2800pci !rt61pci !rt2800usb !rt2x00pci !rt2x00usb !rt2800lib !rt2x00lib)

[root@jobox cadm]# ifconfig wlan0 down
[root@jobox cadm]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Auto Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
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

[root@jobox cadm]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@jobox cadm]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results

[root@jobox cadm]# dhcpcd -d wlan0
dhcpcd[3690]: version 5.2.5 starting
dhcpcd[3690]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason PREINIT
dhcpcd[3690]: wlan0: executing `/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks', reason NOCARRIER
dhcpcd[3690]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[3690]: timed out
[root@jobox cadm]#

ewaller · 2010-07-25 16:03:05

jogan wrote:

How do I connect to AP?
...
wlan0 Ralink STA ESSID:"" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
...

You are connected -- to RT2860STA. But your link quality is in the mud (-97 dBm) Is that the AP for which you are looking?
You can see the routers in your area by doing

sudo iwlist scan

If your router is encrypted while others in range are not, and if you not have provided your NIC the keys to your router, it will associate with an open one instead.

you can force the issue by issuing:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 essid <your AP name>

It looks like you tried that with F63E94.

Assuming you are not hitting your router, I presume it is encrypted. Is it WEP, WPA or WPA-2?

If it is WEP, you can provide the keys on the ifconfig command line using the key keyword in addition to the essid keyword. If not, you will need to play with wpa-supplicant and its settings.

If you can, I suggest shutting off encryption and see if you can connect first. Once you achieve that, turn encryption back on and work the next step. Especially if you are dealing with WPA

edit: fixed syntax in ifconfig command

Last edited by ewaller (2010-07-25 16:04:43)

Caveman85de · 2010-07-25 16:05:11

You are not connected to your AP, therefor you get that error.
Depending on the encryption you are using, you have to walk different paths, all are explained in the link given to you by hokasch .)

jogan · 2010-07-28 08:34:06

Instead of the rt2860sta driver, how do I load the rt2860 driver from /lib/firmware/rt2860.bin?

jogan

jogan · 2010-07-28 08:40:29

JackH79 wrote:

Did you have a look at this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … and_rt2870?

...several times, is there something specific you feel I should focus on?

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