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Hellrespawn

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Registered: 2011-10-17

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rt3090 problems

I don't know if this is the right but subforum, so any moderators should feel free to move this thread if it isn't.

I am using an Asus EeePC 1001HA with a rt3090 wireless card. It has no problem handling WEP, WPA passphrases or PSK's, but it doesn't work with my University's WPA2 Enterprise security.
Networkmanager refuses to connect, even if I use the settings described here, which are the same settings that I have known to work on a different laptop.

Directly using wpa_supplicant didn't work either (I'm afraid I don't have any log files/output at the moment. If necessary, I'll get them later.) I used the following settings:

network={
	ssid="eduroam"
	key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
	eap=TTLS
	identity="redacted@uva.nl"
	anonymous_identity="anonymous@uva.nl"
	password="redacted"
	ca_cert="/home/stef/.wpa/uvacert.crt"
	phase2="auth=PAP"
}

Which are almost word-for-word the same as in the instructions at the above link. Netcfg doesn't work either, but AFAIK it's just a wrapper for wpa_supplicant.

I have noticed an error I sometimes get when the kernel module for the card is loaded:

rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hardware

but this has never caused me any trouble before.

Some useful(?) output:

$ lsmod | grep rt2
rt2800pci               7885  0 
rt2800lib              33940  1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt               1095  1 rt2800lib
rt2x00pci               4223  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib              30331  3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
mac80211              191276  3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
cfg80211              138492  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6            1012  1 rt2800pci

$ dmesg | grep rt2
[    7.258552] rt2800pci 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    7.258592] rt2800pci 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    7.547086] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::radio
[    7.547166] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::assoc
[    7.547250] Registered led device: rt2800pci-phy0::quality

Last edited by Hellrespawn (2011-10-17 14:35:52)