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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: Having Trouble with WiFi (Ralink RT3070)

I just tried this, and the install succeeded. I am not sure whether I booted into the kernel, though, or even if grub recognizes it. Is there a way to check this?
  Thanks, ~Unsolved Cypher

What do you mean? When booting you can see which version of the kernel is being loaded. Also, you can check 'uname -a'. If you mean that you installed it, but didn't reboot because you are not sure if it will work: I have no idea.

UnsolvedCypher

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Registered: 2012-04-28

Posts: 201

Re: Having Trouble with WiFi (Ralink RT3070)

I just tried this, and the install succeeded. I am not sure whether I booted into the kernel, though, or even if grub recognizes it. Is there a way to check this?
  Thanks, ~Unsolved Cypher

What do you mean? When booting you can see which version of the kernel is being loaded. Also, you can check 'uname -a'. If you mean that you installed it, but didn't reboot because you are not sure if it will work: I have no idea.

Ok, I tried uname -a, which told me that I was using 3.4, but still can't connect to WiFi. I read somewhere that I might need to enable the wlan0 module, but my rc.conf file looks different, there are no parentheses.

UnsolvedCypher

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Registered: 2012-04-28

Posts: 201

Re: Having Trouble with WiFi (Ralink RT3070)

I tried creating a netcfg profile, but it gives me

interface wlan0 does not exist

which is odd because I just enabled that in rc.conf before rebooting. I think the problem may be that I don't have wireless-tools, so I'll try installing that.

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: Having Trouble with WiFi (Ralink RT3070)

Installing wireless-tools definetely is a good thing, but rc.conf is wrong (nowadays) for the wlan0 interface.

The interface will be created by the driver (rt2800usb or rt3070), which you have to load if that did not happen automatically. Check:
1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … stallation
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_setup
Maybe you can skip 2., if your netcfg profile works after 1.

UnsolvedCypher

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Registered: 2012-04-28

Posts: 201

Re: Having Trouble with WiFi (Ralink RT3070)

Installing wireless-tools definetely is a good thing, but rc.conf is wrong (nowadays) for the wlan0 interface.

The interface will be created by the driver (rt2800usb or rt3070), which you have to load if that did not happen automatically. Check:
1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … stallation
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_setup
Maybe you can skip 2., if your netcfg profile works after 1.

Thanks, I'll try this as soon as I get the computer back to the router. modprobe and rmmod look like they did fine, so that's a start.