[SOLVED] Unable to set up wireless connection (wiki read)

Agravain · 2012-02-20 16:00:24

Well, as you can see that's my 1st post. That's why I want, at first, congratulate the community for the amazing wiki and forums. It helped so much.

But I'm writing here because I have a problem that I'm unable to resolve with the wiki: The wireless connection. It doesn't work.

Now I will post my hardware and some software:

ASUS Eeepc 1000
01:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2860 (as # lspci | grep -i net says)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Faster Ethernet (rev b0) (as # lspci | grep -i net says)
Linux Kernel 3.2.4-1-ARCH (as # uname -r says)
I3 window manager
wireless_tools and wpa_supplicant installed
(If you want to know something more, ask me)

The wireless is enabled in the BIOS and the led indicator is on.
Being the network controller RT2860, must I do something special? I tried to blacklist what the wiki says with no results.
I have no problems with wired connection, but I can't set up my wireless connection with the # ip link set wlan0 up command (and yes, I execute this command as su or with sudo). I3 corroborates it in the status bar: W: down.

# ip link list

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
( I had it disconnected when I did this check)2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:22:15:08:af:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether 00:15:af:ba:39:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I tried a lot of thing, but no results at all. Must I configure manually some file like wpa_supplicant.conf, rc.conf or others? It is normal that in rc.conf, NETWORKING tab, the only interface is eth0 (interface=eth0) with no other references to wlan0?

Thanks for your attention.

Last edited by Agravain (2012-02-20 17:42:52)

Gusar · 2012-02-20 16:13:46

That thing on the wiki about blacklisting is probably outdated, it's from the times the kernel had two Ralink drivers. Now there's only one, and you should not blacklist anything.

rc.conf is only for wired interfaces. For wireless you can do stuff manually, or use a manager - netcfg, wicd, networkmanager.

And that's that. For further help, you'll have to provide details about which commands you used and what their output is.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-02-20 16:15:04)

Agravain · 2012-02-20 16:28:52

Well... I feel so stupid. I had installed wicd, but I was trying to execute wicd-curses with the "tab menu" of I3WM, what did nothing. Then I tried to execute the command in console and worked. I had terrible days trying to resolve this and it was that simple...
Thanks for the answer and attention.

ewaller · 2012-02-20 16:34:56

Agravain,

Welcome to Arch. I am glad you are up and running. If your problem is solved, please go ahead and edit the first post in this thread and and [SOLVED] to the beginning of the thread subject. We don't do that for you, because we really don't know when you consider things to be resolved.

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#1 2012-02-20 16:00:24

[SOLVED] Unable to set up wireless connection (wiki read)

#2 2012-02-20 16:13:46

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up wireless connection (wiki read)

#3 2012-02-20 16:28:52

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up wireless connection (wiki read)

#4 2012-02-20 16:34:56

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up wireless connection (wiki read)

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