Eeepc 901 wireless help

0sun0ra0 · 2010-06-02 04:23:20

With the help of a friend, I have recently installed archlinux (2010.05) to my 901. I spent the first couple of days playing with the wireless settings with no luck. I finally foundhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=98155 in which tomk suggests to blacklist 'rt2800pci' in the rc.conf and that helped tremendously; since then, I can scan for networks in range but when i attempt to test the connection with "ping", i retrieve the following:

ping 172.16.0.1 connect: Network is unreachable

- this is my default gateway

any other address I use retrieves the same info

As of now, iwconfig wlan0 shows :

wlan0   Ralink STA ESSID: "Internet Apartment10" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
              Mode: Managed   Frequency=2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:1D:7E:3F:D2:31
              Bit Rate=48 Mb/s
              RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
              Encryption key:off
              Link Quality=94/100   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

My rc.conf networking section shows:

 HOSTNAME: hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts

HOSTNAME="RO"

     Use 'ifconfig -a ' or ' ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.

  Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
  Declare each interface then list INTERFACES
   - prefix an entry in  INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
  -  no hyphens in your interface name - Bash doesn't like it

  DCHP:   Set your interface to "dhcp"  (eth0="dhcp")
  Wireless: See network profiles below
   

Static IP example
 eth0="eth0192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 wlan0="dhcp"
 eth0 = "dhcp"
 INTERFACES=(wlan0 eth0)

Routes to start at boot-up. These are only useful if you happen to need multiple network configurations.
   - i have not set up any profiles-

Are there any conflicts found in the Networking section of rc.conf? Im sure that the firmware for the Wireless card is included with the new release of arch. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

skanky · 2010-06-02 11:43:29

I have a 901 working. I use netcfg ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg )

Here's what I have:

rc.conf
====

MODULES: blacklisted rt2800usb rt2x00usb rt2x00lib

eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=()
WIRELESS_INTERFACE="wlan0"
WIRED_INTERFACE="eth0"

gateway="dhcp"

NETWORKS=(wirelessprofile wiredprofile)

DAEMONS includes: net-auto-wireless net-auto-wired

wirelessprofile
=========

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SECURITY="wpa-configsection"
ESSID="essidname"
IP="dhcp"
CONFIGSECTION='
ssid="essidname"
proto=RSN
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=mykey
'

dieghen89 · 2010-06-02 12:55:16

I'm the mainteiner of the kernel-netbook on AUR, with the 2.6.34 (i don't know before) the firmware of the rt2860 has been mooved (see the ChangeLog in kernel.org)...Some users that uses my kernel has solved the firmware problem downloading it from the ralink site...

For this problem I added the firmware file in the packaging of kernel-netbook, so if you have problems with -ARCH kernel and you can't solve them, you could try it so you'd discover if it is a only -ARCH problem

You can found also the precompiled packages of kernel-netbook in google code...

0sun0ra0 · 2010-06-02 18:48:20

To Shanky:
How can I find out if I do have the proper firmware for my 901? I presume that we are both using the Ralink rt2860?

lspci | grep -i net = 01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink RT2860 03:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/Ar8113/Ar8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)

I shudder to think that the '00.0' means that my computer lacks the firmware

Also, I made all the changes to the rc.conf MINUS the netfcg properties and iwconfig does not show ESSID 's and Access points are Not Associated. Dhcpcd wlan0 times out as well. Are these factors normal?

Rumor · 2010-06-02 19:48:20

A quick way is to do

ifconfig wlan0 up

if it comes back with the message "SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory" or somesuch, then you will need to add

MODULES=(!rt2800pci)

to your /etc/rc.conf. I had to do that with my 901. Afterward, wireless worked with no problems.

skanky · 2010-06-02 21:03:18

0sun0ra0 wrote:

To Shanky:
How can I find out if I do have the proper firmware for my 901? I presume that we are both using the Ralink rt2860?
lspci | grep -i net = 01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink RT2860 03:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/Ar8113/Ar8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)
I shudder to think that the '00.0' means that my computer lacks the firmware
Also, I made all the changes to the rc.conf MINUS the netfcg properties and iwconfig does not show ESSID 's and Access points are Not Associated. Dhcpcd wlan0 times out as well. Are these factors normal?

I get the same result to lspci. I don't recall installing anything extra, and pacman -Q suggests nothing.

What is the result of ifconfig?
What results do you get after each step of a manual connect?

See also:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rt2870

0sun0ra0 · 2010-06-03 00:40:01

ifconfig shows

wlan0  Ralink STA Essid : "Internet Aartments 6" Nickname "RT2860STA"
  Mode :Managed  Frequency= 2.437 GHz  Access Point : 00:15:6D:A9:40:4F
  Bit Rate= 54 Mb/s
  RTS thr: off  Fragment thr: off
 Encryption key :off
  Link Quality =89/100 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise Level:81 dBm
  Rxinvalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0
 TX excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

ifconfig

Link encap: Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:AF:BB:B8:8C
 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
  RX packets: 41783 errors:0 dropped:- overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
  RX bytes:6401925 (6.1 Mb) TXbytes: 0
  Interrupt:19

I have come across /etc/conf.d/wireless recently. This has not been configured. any doc on how to set this?

0sun0ra0 · 2010-06-03 04:50:16

I think I now understand the problem
I live in an apartment complex that suscribes to a ISP called Internet Apartments. Normally , when I turn and log on to my desktop(running Windows XP) and open firefox, I am automatically directed to a log in page for the company; it requires a login id and password provided by my land-lady: once that information is entered I can freely surf the web. However, on my 901, when I use {iwconfig wlan0 scan | less} i get around 18 different Internet Apartment essid's all of which look very similar to this :

 wlan0  Ralink STA Essid : "Internet Aartments 6" Nickname "RT2860STA"
  Mode :Managed  Frequency= 2.437 GHz  Access Point : 00:15:6D:A9:40:4F
  Bit Rate= 54 Mb/s
  RTS thr: off  Fragment thr: off
 [b] Encryption key :off[/b]
  Link Quality =89/100 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise Level:81 dBm
  Rxinvalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0
 TX excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The manual process of setting up my card works just fine. I can perform successfully {ifconfig wlan0 up }then {iwconfig wlan0 essid "Internet Apartments X"}. Finally, { iwconfig wlan0} demonstrates essid "Internet Apartment X" and the association of the access-point. Running dhcpcd however returns only time out. These statistics very from time to time:P I want to make sure to point out that Encryption is labeled off.

I believe that the reason why i have yet to successfully connect to the internet is because im not sure what kind of key is being used here. Furthermore, i'm not entirely sure how i would associate this "key" with iwconfig : {iwconfig wlan0 essid "Internet Apartments X" key ?}. Has anyone ever been in this particular circumstance before? Any suggestions to this hypothesis ?:/

Also, one particular constant statistic that I have noticed with {ifconfig} is the following:

 wlan0 Link Encap: Ethernet  HW addr :  xxxxxxx
                       UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric:1
                       RX packets 9823  errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                       TX packets: 59 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
                      collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 1000
                       RX bytes: 1112334    tx bytes 0
                       Interrupt : 19

Interrupt stat is ALWAYS 19 The Rx Tx packets are always disproportionate respectively.

Last edited by 0sun0ra0 (2010-06-03 05:21:15)

nesro · 2010-06-03 07:20:10

I have Asus EeePC 1000H, I just add: MODULES=(!rt2800pci !rt2x00pci) to rc.conf and installed http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd and everythink works fine.

skanky · 2010-06-03 09:05:51

Has anyone ever been in this particular circumstance before?

I reckon it's probably the same as in hotels. I was recently staying in a hotel which had wireless AP's and you got an IP address after logging in via a browser.

The AP was open.

After getting the connection (the iwconfig result showed the correct ESSID but there was no IP address in ifconfig), I opened a browser and logged in and it all worked fine afterwards. I use dhcpd.

I use netcfg, so for me it was a case of adding a profile using the "wireless-open" example, and putting it in the list of profiles in rc.conf. After that it always connected to the AP automatically. I guess you can set-up the same using general set-up but I haven't done that. Look-up "wireless" in the Arch wiki. You can put the commands in your start-up scripts if you don't want to use netcfg, or you can use other config files that may exist.

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Eeepc 901 wireless help

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