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jgrabham

Member

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 2

My wireless is REALLY screwy now!

I installed Arch this morning. (Best distro Ive ever used BTW... SO FAST!!!)

It has xfce running

I tried to set up wireless, several ways, and I dont know whats going on with it anymore...

Im using a  ralink rt2500

some things I assume will be helpful

[root@j_laptop grabham]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:18:A9:00:9A  
          inet addr:10.0.0.14  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fea9:9a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:539062 (526.4 Kb)  TX bytes:121883 (119.0 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd400 

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:0C:C1:80  
          inet addr:169.254.41.209  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-0F-EA-0C-C1-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@j_laptop grabham]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"Grabhams"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=27 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Encryption key:****-****-**
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

SSID is correct, as is WEP key (exept it shouldnt have dashes in it, and the case isnt right, I replaced the charaters with asterics for obvious reasons)

The wired connection is fine, (talking to you off it now)

mif86

Member

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 16

Re: My wireless is REALLY screwy now!

Got ralink chipset myself, and it tends to disassociate sometimes.
Try

iwlist scan

to check if it can see the net (ofcourse the essid has to be broadcast.)

And try to turn off encryption on the net, and see if it works then.
Also check your dmesg, the driver prints information there (at least mine does.)

jgrabham

Member

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 2

Re: My wireless is REALLY screwy now!

I just installed wifi radar, and it works fine ;]  I assume wifi raday just takes over, or controls everything for me and puts it in a nice GUI.

No WPA though... would be a plus to have it...

Last edited by jgrabham (2008-02-22 23:17:41)