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joeda

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 32

NDISWrapper crashes using rt61 wireless

Hello community,

I'm having trouble setting up my network properly. WLAN-Card is rt61-based and the Connection is WPA2-PSK encrypted.
I'm using NDISWrapper right now as well as on other distributions, too, but I'm willing to use a driver that probably doesn't crash at random times (that would be the rt61pci-driver in my case).

I already used the rt61pci and I can see my Acesspoint using iwlist scan. Unfortunately, I failed to set up the encryption. I found this  http://dreamlinuxforums.org/index.php/topic,1680.0.html  thread by using forum search (it was linked), but iwconfig doesn't really like WPA-keys, at least for me. I already consulted the wiki for further informations (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RT61_Wireless), but the recommended package seems not to be available anymore.

Well, is there a possibility to use the rt61pci-driver with wpa_supplicant (which always worked great) or to set up encryption in another way? I get my IP using DHCP.

Any hints appreciated,

   joe

Last edited by joeda (2008-09-17 19:02:53)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: NDISWrapper crashes using rt61 wireless

Does it work if you remove the encryption?

joeda

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 32

Re: NDISWrapper crashes using rt61 wireless

Hello,

Does it work if you remove the encryption?

Actually, I didn't try this. I can see my accesspoint using iwlist with rt61pci-driver, so I guess it works. Turning off encryption would be a little problematic, but I'll try to make it.

Encryption doesn't seem to be the problem as I can stop wpa_supplicant without hanging. If

rmmod ndiswrapper

hangs, is an indicator of a freezing module. It doesn't really crash, every ping raises a timeout error, but not a connection error. I had the same problem on other distros as well, so I would rather have an alternative to ndiswrapper than spending years trying to fix an emulated driver.

greetz joe