[SOLVED] wireless rt73 - I'm stuck!

Tiberius · 2009-03-27 11:05:39

In a nutshell my router works fine when wired. It has wireless which I want to enable so I followed the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless and googled and read and re-read posts in the forums here but i'm stuck now - cant seem to get it going.

So I take out the usb dongle and plug it in again and get this in dmesg.

dmesg:
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3040 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3028 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x3064 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0c failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x0a failed for offset 0x0000 with error -19.
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:radio
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:assoc
Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1:quality

here's the i.d.

[pete@desk ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 07d1:3c03 D-Link System

and shows up on wlan0

[pete@desk ~]$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <hidden>  
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:9709 (9.4 Kb)  TX bytes:3683 (3.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:17 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1009 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:85618 (83.6 Kb)  TX bytes:85618 (83.6 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr <hidden>  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr <hidden> 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

it can scan for wirelss networks ok ,see's mine and others.

bash-3.2# iwlist wlan0 scan
          Cell 04 - Address: <hidden>
                    ESSID:"Dlink_wireless"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
                    Quality=56/100  Signal level:-24 dBm  
                    Encryption key:on
                    IE: Unknown: 000E446C696E6B5F776972656C657373
                    IE: Unknown: 010582848B962C
                    IE: Unknown: 030106
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0100
                    IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s
                              6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Extra:tsf=0000000b7422041c
                    Extra: Last beacon: 433ms ago

more info

[pete@desk ~]$ lsmod | grep rt73
rt73                  238208  0 
rt73usb                28676  0 
crc_itu_t               4096  1 rt73usb
rt2x00usb              12288  1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib              33280  2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
usbcore               160560  8 rt73,rt73usb,rt2x00usb,btusb,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

here's my entries in /etc/rc.conf

/etc/rc.conf
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
#MODULES=(powernow-k8 cpufreq_ondemand skge slhc ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-codec snd-via82xx-modem snd-via82xx soundcore fuse)

eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid Dlink_wireless" # Unencrypted

Any help/pointers with this much appreciated.

Last edited by Tiberius (2009-03-27 12:14:40)

eldragon · 2009-03-27 12:07:14

read the wiki on how to configure netcfg2, if you dont care much about security where you live, id suggest wep since it works faster than wpa for some reason from my experience

Tiberius · 2009-03-27 12:09:44

Nvm........ I had to specify the module in rc.conf (didnt work with MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes") and added the WEP key.

....the working version:

/etc/rc.conf
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=([b]rt73 !rt73usb[/b]powernow-k8 cpufreq_ondemand skge slhc ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-mpu401-uart snd-ac97-codec snd-via82xx-modem snd-via82xx soundcore fuse)

eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid Dlink_wireless [b]key 123456789[/b]" # Unencrypted

Tiberius · 2009-03-27 12:16:44

eldragon wrote:

read the wiki on how to configure netcfg2, if you dont care much about security where you live, id suggest wep since it works faster than wpa for some reason from my experience

thanks for your reply and i'll take a look at netcfg2. cheers

tomk · 2009-03-27 12:41:55

I'd suggest using rt73usb instead of rt73, but otherwise you seem to be OK.

byte · 2009-03-27 12:52:52

IIRC, the only issue I had with rt73usb was that I needed the firmware: rt2x00-rt71w-fw (core repo)

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#1 2009-03-27 11:05:39

[SOLVED] wireless rt73 - I'm stuck!

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