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flob

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Registered: 2008-07-12

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Loosing connection with RT2500 after a random amount of time

Hello,

i am quite new to Archlinux, and so far i love it! I struggled a bit to get my RT2500 card up and running, as well as autoconnecting it on boot.
Managed to get it to work with netcfg2.
The problem is this, after i boot, i can use my network connection perfectly, until it stops just randomly. Restarting the network using
"etc/rc.d/network restart" as root does not help.
The card works perfectly after i reboot the system. When the connection loss happens, iwconfig still got all the things needed to connect to the network (ssid, network key, frequency)  are there, the "Link Quality" simply goes to 0/100

I'd need some suggestions to fix this annoying bug! Thank you
Flob

ps.: the wlan is running on channel 2, is that any bad for the driver provided by arch?

Last edited by flob (2008-07-13 01:36:22)

Gluffs

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Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Loosing connection with RT2500 after a random amount of time

I had the same problem, it turned out that i was using the wrong driver. Whit netcfg2 it is possible to get the rt2500 chip up and running whit a bad driver but it wont be stable.

I have an PCMCIA card whit the ralink 2500 and i use the serialmonkey driver provided whit pacman.

So my tip to you is to do a

hwdetect --net

On my computer it shows

MODULES=(tg3 rt2500 rt2500pci rt2x00lib rt2x00pci)

so in order to get the chip up and running i had to blacklist all detected modules exept the rt2500 in rc.conf

MODULES=(tg3 rt2500 !rt2500pci !rt2x00lib !rt2x00pci )

Decpite all the info i found telling me to use the rt2500pci to get my card working ended up giving me the same proplems you have whit your connection, So hopefully one of the drivers will get you a stable connection.

flob

Member

Registered: 2008-07-12

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Loosing connection with RT2500 after a random amount of time

Thank you very much, using the PCI driver helped indeed, not one crash after one hour of uptime or so, where it did not work for more than 5min before! Thank you!