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Okay, installed Arch yesterday for the second time. Used a wired connection to get all updates and programs needed. When I first went to setup my wireless I got this message:
[root@myhost isa]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
So I started looking around online, and looked up my chipset:
[root@myhost isa]# lspci | grep -i net
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
02:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
Found out that it is not supported automatically. Went to the supplier's website and downloaded the .zip file. I read that I needed to put the RT2800.bin file in /lib/firmware
...easy enough, now I'm retrying the setup and I am so close, but when I do the wlist scan it seems it's not linking maintaining the information. This is what I get:
[root@myhost Desktop]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=5 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[root@myhost Desktop]# ifconfig wlan0 up
[root@myhost Desktop]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:69:13:DF:09
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=70/70 Signal level=50 dBm
Encryption key:off
ESSID:"linksys"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=00000029c259b183
Extra: Last beacon: 2460ms ago
IE: Unknown: 00076C696E6B737973
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030106
IE: Unknown: 050400010000
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD090010180201F5000000
[root@myhost Desktop]# iwconfig wlan0 essid "linksys"
[root@myhost Desktop]# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=5 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
[root@myhost Desktop]# dhcpcd wlan0
dhcpcd[2957]: version 5.2.5 starting
dhcpcd[2957]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
dhcpcd[2957]: timed out
Please help.
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iwconfig essid "linksys"
then: dhcpcd wlan0
that outta get'r done.
Last edited by FuKaS (2010-06-21 08:12:14)
Archlinux x86_64 | i7-2600K | 4GB G.Skill Ripjaw 1600mhz | 1TB WD Blue | Antec 550w | Galaxy GT430 1GB | AsRock P67 Pro3 (B3)
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FuKaS - read his post again. He has already done what you suggested.
jargowsky - it's possible you are running into a driver conflict between the kernel's official rt2x00 driver rt2800pci and the staging driver rt2860sta. There is at least one other thread on this topic - have a read, see if the solution there works for you.
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Try wpa_supplicant for the connection.
The only way to make my RT2760 work was with the following procedure:
- I compiled and install rt2870sta module (I think you have already done that)
- I created a file called wifi_up.conf (wpa_supplicant.conf type). I recall finding toons of examples in Arch Wiki somewhere for any wireless configuration you can think on (WPA, WEP or with no security at all).
- I loaded it with
[root@myhost]# wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -cwifi_up.conf
- After that, "dhcpcd wlan0" should work.
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tomk - Your link to the other forum helped out quite a bit. I believe that was exactly what I needed. My only question I have before I start trying to finish up this issue tonight is: will I need to restart or anything like that after blacklisting a module?
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You don't need to restart to get it working. Blacklisting it now has no immediate affect - it just makes sure the module won't be loaded next time you reboot.
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tomk - Awesome, that answers what I hope to be my last question. I'll let you know as soon as I get home from work tonight.
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