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#1 2010-05-20 21:03:21

QX
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[SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

I've tried repeatedly to get Arch installed, being interested in moving to a more serious/leaner Distro. My wireless card works fine in Ubuntu x86_64 (9.10 & 10.04).

Initially, on the 2009.08 live enviroment, I could get my card connected to my WPA2 encrypted network using iwconfig. But after the actual install, dhcpcd would always time out. I then attempted to go temporarily wired, researched my firmware, and on the advice of a thread in this forum, tried wicd (which was my preferred network manager in Ubuntu, but the default worked as well). After that did not work, I attempted to install the binary driver from the AUR, but I ran into the same issue. I ended up using the 2010.05 disc and buying another card and that explicitly stated it worked with Linux, and a review backed this up with Arch 32 & 64 bit, but ironically, this card needs the exact same firmware, and has the exact same issue. I finally used instructions on this site:
http://www.ab9il.net/linuxwireless/rt2860.html

To compile from source, but it didn't work out to well, and I realized the AUR had the exact same files with a PKGBUILD, so I ended up using those again, but now I can't even connect in the live 2010.05 enviroment, and dhcpcd times out after I compile the driver.

Anyone with rt2860 having similar issues with a recent system? Should I use another card, and if so any recommendations?

Last edited by QX (2010-05-21 05:23:09)

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#2 2010-05-20 21:48:42

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

Do

# pacman -S rt2x00-rt61-fw or rt2x00-rt71w-fw

depending on your card

Last edited by Coacher (2010-05-20 22:04:22)

#3 2010-05-21 02:23:49

QX
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

No dice

[root@Tom ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Tx-Power=0 dBm
          Retry  long limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

[root@Tom ~]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I installed both of them, do you know if they conflict? That said, since my firmware is rt2860 and the packages say 2x00, rather than 2xx0 or 2x60, are you sure if they work with said cards?

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#4 2010-05-21 02:28:05

cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

So it's not just me?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 85#p753885

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#5 2010-05-21 02:40:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

QX wrote:

Anyone with rt2860 having similar issues with a recent system? Should I use another card, and if so any recommendations?

You might find some solace in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94929


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#6 2010-05-21 04:18:57

QX
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

yikes holy crap

It worked. I did have to tinker a bit and pop into the fallback, but it came down to adding

!rt2800pci !rt2x00pci !rt2800usb !rt2x00usb !rt2800lib !rt2x00lib

to the module section of rc.conf. I had to add rt2800lib and rt2x00lib, otherwise Arch wouldn't start properly (I suspect those modules started but depended on the previous ones blacklisted).

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#7 2010-05-21 04:22:59

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

QX wrote:

I did have to tinker a bit...

Get used to that... and welcome to Arch!

(Could you prepend 'Solved' to the thread title?)


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#8 2010-05-22 17:32:03

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot connect wirelessly with RT2860: Firmware issues

i confirm that this:

# pacman -S rt2x00-rt61-fw or rt2x00-rt71w-fw

worked for me too

Last edited by mkloch (2010-05-22 17:35:39)

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