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luckysh0t

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Registered: 2012-10-08

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Live USB setup - r8169 driver, link not coming up

I am using an Advent 4211 netbook (~MS Wind) with Realtek RTL8187SE wireless lan controller and MSI MN54G2/MS-6894 Wireless Mini PCIe card

I tried to load r8169 but I think maybe the driver should be rtl8187se?

dmesg | grep r8169

r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:01:00.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0 link down
r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth0 RTL8102e at 0xf979000, 00:21:85:e4:5d:8b

Is there a way of explicitly bringing up wireless (and why is it on eth0?) or if it's an incorrect driver issue how do I go about installing the correct one on my usb live distro?

Doing a

iw dev wlan0 link

returns 'nl80211 not found'

edit: think I got mixed up between wireless/wired adapters.

The initial wireless driver ArchLinux with 3.4.7-1 loads on live usb startup appears to be r8180

dmesg | grep r8180

Initializing module
Wireless extensions version 22
Initializing proc filesystem
Configuring chip resources
Channel plan is 2
MAC controller is a RTL8187SE b/g
usValue is 0x100
EEPROM version 104
WW:**PLEASE** REPORT SUCCESSFUL/UNSUCCESSFUL  TO Realtek!
IRQ 17
Driver probe completed
Bringing up iface
Card successfully reset
WIRELESS_MODE_G

Am I right in expecting some kind of 'link is up' message here if the driver was working as expected?

Last edited by luckysh0t (2012-10-08 11:06:49)

DSpider

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Re: Live USB setup - r8169 driver, link not coming up

Was there something unclear from the Beginners' Guide?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … e#Wireless

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luckysh0t

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Registered: 2012-10-08

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Re: Live USB setup - r8169 driver, link not coming up

I brought the interface up then scanned for networks but it didn't pick up any.

OK so I rmmod r8180 and modprobe r8187se. iwlist wlan0 scan shows my router but when I wifi-menu wlan0 no networks are found?

Last edited by luckysh0t (2012-10-08 11:57:12)

luckysh0t

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Registered: 2012-10-08

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Re: Live USB setup - r8169 driver, link not coming up

I've tried to associate with the access point (WEP encryption) but iwconfig wlan0 hasn't changed from 'Not-Associated'.