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Obi-Lan

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-05-23

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rt2x00-cvs and networkmanager

I got some old laptop and PCMCIA WLAN card with RaLink RT2400 chip. I installed rt2x00-cvs from core and loaded modules eeprom_93cx6, rt2400pci, rt2x00lib, rt2x00pci. I can do succesfully iwlist wlan0 scan command too. I installed networkmanager and all needed stuff and I get nm-applet icon in Gnome. The problem is that nm-applet says theres no devices so it doesn't recognize my wireless. Should rt2x00-cvs work with networkmanager and if yes, is there any tricks to know?

FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: rt2x00-cvs and networkmanager

Just to make sure, did you add "networkmanager" in the daemons of your /etc/rc.conf and blacklisted the "network" one ("!network")?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager
Did you follow all these steps?

Last edited by FizDev (2007-10-16 07:59:10)

Obi-Lan

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 179

Re: rt2x00-cvs and networkmanager

I realized yesterday that I had forgot to add hal to daemon list. So I got networkmanager to see my wireless and it sees wireless networks. But joining to my wlan (wpa-psk) wont happen, network manager keeps asking password for network and wont connect.

EDIT. I get some logs later.

Last edited by Obi-Lan (2007-10-16 10:33:23)

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Re: rt2x00-cvs and networkmanager

Despite rt2x00 being newer and looking promising, I think it's still better you get the old 'beta' snapshot drivers (rt2400) instead of rt2x00. They have their own WLAN stack, so they don't support wpa_supplicant (I can't even tell if the old driver supports WPA). I'm not even sure the rt2400 chip (and the beta driver) support WPA.

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Obi-Lan

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 179

Re: rt2x00-cvs and networkmanager

Q. What encryption types are currently supported ?
A. WEP128/64 for rt2400. WEP128/64 + WPAPSK for rt2500/2570.

DOH!

Luckily its a pcmcia card so I will get rid of that junk.