Cannot Get Ralink RT61 card to connect

regomodo · 2007-09-16 10:31:22

Hi. I'm new to Arch but not to Linux.

I've just got my base install going but before i go anywhere i need to setup my wireless (i have no ethernet). The chipset on my card is an RT61 and i have installed the drivers from serialmonkey and got my laptop to connect to my router (connectivity quality is >> 0).

However i have no ip address and when i run

$ route

i am returned with no values and i cannot add a route with

$ route add default gw 192.168.1.1

I am returned with "SIOCADDRT: No such process"

Have i not assigned this card to work with DHCP (i normally use "iface wlan0 inet dhcp" but the command is not found). If not, how would i go about doing this?

Any help would be greatly received. Cheers

tomk · 2007-09-16 10:40:03

After your laptop associates with your router, you can either set a static IP address using ifconfig, or request a DHCP-assigned address using dhcpcd. If you go for static, you will also need to use route, after the static address has been assigned.

Once you are happy with your setup, you can set the appropriate parameters in /etc/rc.conf, and run /etc/rc.d/network restart.

People who use Debian-based distros normally use "iface wlan0 inet dhcp" - but you're on Arch now.

regomodo · 2007-09-16 10:50:33

cheers, i just realised i hadn't edited my rc.conf so i added

wlan0=("dhcp") and wlan0 to INTERFACES but that didn't help anyways

When you say "use dhcpd" do you mean like in debian with dhclient? I ask as just tried dhcpd wlan0 and got a command not found.

I need to check through the cd's packages

[edit] oops. dhcpcd

Last edited by regomodo (2007-09-16 10:55:13)

regomodo · 2007-09-16 10:58:55

w00t! i'd like to know what changes i did caused it to work but i reinstalled dhcpcd from the CD and re-entered my iwpriv/iwpconfig stuff and all was working. I did run dhcpd but i was told that it was already running.

I also unblocked "gateway" from rc.conf

Thanks

Last edited by regomodo (2007-09-16 11:03:55)

regomodo · 2007-09-16 12:17:20

dammit. It was going so well until i rebooted. Back to square 1

I've given up with DHCP for now. I just can't get it to work properly (at all)

Last edited by regomodo (2007-09-16 12:26:08)

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Cannot Get Ralink RT61 card to connect

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