Kernel 2.6.32 does not work with RT2860 Wireless Card

zodmaner · 2009-12-17 12:01:28

Vamp898 wrote:

Yes im using this (WPA/WPA2 Mixed Mode) Ö_Ö hmmm sounds strange. Very thx for the info im going to try this and paste the new info on the kernel.org bugzilla

Took me quite a while to figure this one out too. Just set your router's WPA mode to either WPA or WPA2 and you should be fine.

@moljac024: Well, aside from this (quite serious) problem with WPA/WPA2 mixed mode, I haven't run into any other regressions with the rt2860 driver in 2.6.32.

Blind · 2009-12-17 15:43:57

Question to y'all:
Are you using the staging or the rt2x00 (is that even operational?) driver?
I had severe problems when setting the access point to WPA2 only with kernel 2.6.31. No problems with mixed mode or WPA only.

zodmaner · 2009-12-17 16:02:33

For us with a rt2860 wireless card, the staging driver (rt2860sta) is the only option as far as I know.

Blind · 2009-12-17 19:18:45

zodmaner, there has been a lot of work done on the rt2x00 last month with respect to rt2800 support.
Unfortunately, the effort seems to have calmed down now, and no new commits have been made for some time now.
I was just wondering if you had been playing with these experimental (probably non-functional) drivers...
I suppose my question has been answered

Vamp898 · 2009-12-17 19:56:04

i´m in good hope for 2.6.33 xD

Vamp898 · 2009-12-27 18:49:51

Ok it does work with WPA2-Personal so it seems only to have a problem with WPA/WPA2 Mixed

Cdh · 2009-12-28 01:31:09

Are you talking about .33?

Today I tried with 2.6.32.2-2
First iwlist scan shows the wlans but does not connect. I did not look into detail why. I pressed the hotkey for the wlan to turn off. The LED turned off, but the interface remained in iwconfig and iwlist scan. But it didn't show any wlans anymore. After pressing the hotkey again the LED turned on but iwlist scan does not find wlans for wlan0.

/sys/class/rfkill/ is still empty.

Reverted to 2.6.31 and it again works without problems.

Vamp898 · 2009-12-28 11:17:46

[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$ uname -a
Linux VampLap 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 26 08:26:17 UTC 2009 i686 Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$

[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$ lspci | grep rt28 -i
04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$

And iwconfig

wlan0     RT2860 Wireless  ESSID:"Vamp898"  Nickname:"RT2860STA"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1F:3F:1C:D2:31
          Bit Rate=48 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=91/100  Signal level:-72 dBm  Noise level:-81 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Do you tried setting WPA2-Personal at your router?

Cdh · 2009-12-28 16:45:15

I had WPA/WPA2 mixed but my problem was that even iwlist scan didn't find any wlans.

pugnacity · 2009-12-29 06:35:26

rhfcaesar wrote:

I add
!rt2800usb !rt2x00lib !rt2x00usb
to MODULES in /etc/rc.conf
Now it works again.

this has also worked for me. thx for the tip

Vamp898 · 2009-12-29 11:57:44

pugnacity wrote:

rhfcaesar wrote:
I add
!rt2800usb !rt2x00lib !rt2x00usb
to MODULES in /etc/rc.conf
Now it works again.
this has also worked for me. thx for the tip

on me, no of these modules are loaded. Im wonder why you guys have to blacklist it Ö_Ö

[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$ lsmod | grep rt -i
iTCO_vendor_support     1453  1 iTCO_wdt
agpgart                23331  2 drm,intel_agp
rt2860sta             473372  1 
rtc_cmos                7504  0 
rtc_core               12011  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 1450  1 rtc_core
[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$

Cdh · 2010-01-01 13:15:19

I posted it already there: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 28#p680628
But I think it belongs to here as well:

Wlan was set to off while booting with 2.6.32
I press the hotkey to enable wlan. The LED turns on.
Nothing happens.
I see no change neither in dmesg nor /var/log/everything.log
I have no wlan0 interface.
The wlan toggle script of acpi-eeepc-generic fails with saying that /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill/state is missing. I cannot find any rfkill state file anywhere in /sys
rmmod rt2860sta and modprobe rt2860 gives nothing, just each one line in dmesg : rt2860sta: module is from the staging directory [...]
I reboot. With the LED activated in the bios it says already, wlan is activated.
Magically there is a wlan0.
iwlist scan does not find any wireless networks, I have to do iwconfig wlan0 up. Then it finds ssids and can connect without problems.
iwconfig wlan0 power off fails with "Operation not supported".
I press the hotkey to turn wlan off. wlan0 does not disappear. iwconfig says it is still connected. I cannot ping anything. I cannot do ifconfig wlan0 up, I get SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted.
I press the hotkey again. iwlist scan says no scan results for wlan0. I still cannot ifconfig wlan0 up, still not permitted.
I rmmod rt2860sta and wlan0 disappears. I modprobe rt2860sta but wlan0 reappears. I can't still do ifconfig wlan0 up and still iwlist scan says no scan results.
So I cannot establish any wireless connection except after reboot with activated wlan.
Here is dmesg from second try: http://omploader.org/vMzRwbw

jordi · 2010-01-02 14:54:39

works fine again after putting rt2860.bin into my /lib/firmware folder (using wpa/wpa2 mixed mode)

edit: it doesn't

Last edited by jordi (2010-01-09 12:31:31)

Mr. X · 2010-01-02 19:38:45

my wlan card stopped working too with the new kernel... then I noticed that lspci detects my Linksys card as RT2800, but iwconfing as RT2860...
after loading rt2860sta into /etc/rc.conf MODULES everything seems to work (for now)...

bmentink · 2010-01-02 19:49:30

I have the RT2860sta based Wifi as well and it broke on 2.6.32.2-2.

My fix was to rename config files from ra0 to wlan0, add the firmware file to /lib/firmware and I had to set the modem to WPA personal instead of auto (mixed).

Thanks for all the folk on this thread for finding this stuff out

Edit: Well it worked once ... next login no go

Last edited by bmentink (2010-01-02 23:13:02)

liticovjesac · 2010-01-06 08:33:33

Just to confirm same problem with rt2860sta on eeepc 1000h
Wicd doesn't see any wireless. Gnome networkmanager see wireless networks but can't connect.
I downgrade to kernel 31 and wireless works again.

Is there any other package except kernel it self that i should downgrade? Like kernel26-firmware or kernel-headers?

bmentink · 2010-01-07 19:45:45

I have found that if I leave Wicd running long enough, it will eventually connect (wicd constantly re-tries to connect)

Cheers

Blind · 2010-01-07 23:06:39

What about writing a small script that runs wpa_supplicant by itself, such as mentioned in
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901
I will update the script to reflect the recent change of the device name from ra0 to wlan0.

Blind

f4hy · 2010-01-09 09:51:13

I still have problems. Since 2.6.32 I can not connect to my access point at all. I am not using mixed, just wpa2-personal. I have updated my configs to be wlan0.

Both my desktop and laptop have this issue. My desktop I am using netcfg and errors with Authentication/Authorization failed.

On my laptop I tried wicd and it sees the network but fails to get an IP address, so I assume it is also failing to authenticate.

measure · 2010-01-10 07:02:04

I can also attest to the issues here. A few comments though. As someone noted, hal (or something) suddenly recognized the chip as wlan0 instead of ra0; changing the wicd configuration fixed this (I suppose I could have also aliased the other way, but, well, I didn't?). My card now sees access points. Furthermore, while it does repeatedly fail to obtain an IP, wicd eventually does connect to the internet as someone else mentioned. Running dmesg I noticed an apparently relevant note which I don't really have any knowledge about:

--> Error 2 opening /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat

While it does work, I plan on probably downgrading the kernel as others have done until we have a bit more information.

Thanks,
Ryan

AngryKoala · 2010-01-10 07:07:50

My broadcom wifi card cuts out after 5 minutes too! Hopefully the next kernel patch will help =/

DeeCodeUh · 2010-01-11 16:45:57

How do I downgrade to the working kernel?

DeeCodeUh · 2010-01-11 16:55:06

I found a mirror that contains old packages: http://schlunix.org/archlinux/
I love schlunix!

DeeCodeUh · 2010-01-11 19:48:01

Ok, I decided not to go to the old packages. So instead I went to the testing packages and installed the Kernel26 2.6.33_rc3 from the AUR, AND IT'S FIXED! This made my day!

Edit: typo

Last edited by DeeCodeUh (2010-01-11 20:39:52)

Cdh · 2010-01-13 09:03:32

acpi_osi=Linux as kernel bootparamater seems to fix all issues for me with rt2860, rfkill and the eeepc_laptop module.

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