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nimra

Member

Registered: 2009-04-06

Posts: 6

Ralink RT3070STA problems

Hi,

yesterday i got a new USB Wireless Lan stick, now i don't get it working
it has a Ralink RT3070 chipset
was trying to get it warking as described there: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless
i can find my wireless networks, but if i try to get an adress using dhcp i get a timeout
somehow setting essid doesn't work?

propably important outputs:

uname -a:
Linux XXX 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 13 11:33:39 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.

lsmod:
[...]
rt3070sta             607880  1
usbcore               183764  5 rt3070sta,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
[...]

dmesg:
see http://www.pastebin.ca/1624982

iwlist ra0 scan:
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:05:5D:EC:1F:58
                    Protocol:802.11b
                    ESSID:"default"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Channel:6
                    Quality:99/100  Signal level:-51 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:11 Mb/s

iwconfig altough i ran

iwconfig ra0 essid default

before
ra0       RT2870 Wireless  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
          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

sry if i forgot something
thx for your help

NIMRA

nimra

Member

Registered: 2009-04-06

Posts: 6

Re: Ralink RT3070STA problems

noone?:(

sheekeebut

Member

Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 16

Re: Ralink RT3070STA problems

Hi there.

I don't know if it's too late for you by now, but I have the same chipset for my wifi stick, and you're pretty much where I am.

You'll have to get your ra0 (or wlan0 in my case) to associate with the desired access point. Unfortunately, when I do this:

iwlist wlan0 scan

I get many other access points in this neighbourhood, WITHOUT the one standing just a few metres from my computer.

This links to my problem:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93772