anyone have luck with wmp54g (rt2500 driver) pci wifi card?

bionnaki · 2007-01-11 00:57:55

I tried arch a few months ago but I was unable to connect to my wireless network. Has anyone had any luck yet? Just curious - I would like to use arch but I need wireless/WPA.

thanks

iphitus · 2007-01-11 09:48:20

using one now, and maintain rt2x00-cvs in unstable.

uncomment unstable and:
pacman -S rt2x00-cvs

then just take a look at arch's network profiles in /etc/network-profiles.

Just create a network profile in /etc/network-profiles, copy the example if you wish, and set:
USEWPA and AUTOWPA to 'yes', set your ESSID, and set PASSKEY to your WPA passkey.

Make sure everything else is set right, then just do 'netcfg profilename'.

bionnaki · 2007-01-12 00:16:44

whoa - that's it? very cool. dl'ing a torrent to try again. thanks!

bionnaki · 2007-02-10 09:59:20

iphitus: I had trouble with setting up my wireless so I went back to ubuntu for the last few weeks...but of course, I want to try arch yet again.

can you post your network profile? For some reason, I could never get online. Also, how would configure the profile for a static IP?

thanks!

bionnaki · 2007-02-16 01:07:18

bump

pelle.k · 2007-02-16 17:54:11

I personally have no rt2500 pci, but i have got a rt2500 usb (rt2570). have had next to _no_ success using the native rt2570 (rt2500 in you case) nor the new experimental rt2x00 from serialmonkey project.
I'm using it with ndiswrapper atm, and it's really working flawlessly.
I'm not sure if this is also the case with the native rt2500 driver, but with ndiswrapper you need to be very verbose when connecting to the access point. This is my config;

wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid studion channel 6 ap 00:13:46:42:65:22 key restricted s:XXXXXXXXXXXXX"

INTERFACES=(lo wlan0)

Basicly, this is a dhcp setup, with a shared WEP key. I had to add the hardware-adress of the access-point (ap hardware-address), since it wouldn't connect otherwise.
To see the hardware-adress of the ap, just bring ra0 up, with "ifconfig ra0 up", and then "iwlist ra0".

If i were to connect with a static address i would replace wlan0="dhcp" with wlan0="wlan0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" or something like that. I would also set gateway, and remove the "!". Last of all I would update /etc/resolv.conf with the address to my nameserver. (usually the router. this is automatic with dhcp)

A nice tip is to remember all those ra0 (or wlan0 in my case) statements all over the place. one mistake and network will not be brought up.

bionnaki · 2007-02-17 07:07:03

thanks for the tip. im still trying to get this to work, so maybe that'll help.

bionnaki · 2007-02-17 21:56:08

iphitus wrote:

using one now, and maintain rt2x00-cvs in unstable.
uncomment unstable and:
pacman -S rt2x00-cvs
then just take a look at arch's network profiles in /etc/network-profiles.
Just create a network profile in /etc/network-profiles, copy the example if you wish, and set:
USEWPA and AUTOWPA to 'yes', set your ESSID, and set PASSKEY to your WPA passkey.
Make sure everything else is set right, then just do 'netcfg profilename'.

do I need to do anything with wpa_supplicant?

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#1 2007-01-11 00:57:55

anyone have luck with wmp54g (rt2500 driver) pci wifi card?

#2 2007-01-11 09:48:20

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