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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

rt2860 (various Eee PC flavors) and Kernel 2.6.35

Just a heads-up:

Since kernel 2.6.35, the in kernel, non-'staging' drivers for this card are operational. Now, instead of blacklisting rt2x00 & Co. you will need to blacklist rt2860sta until that driver is removed from the kernel/kernel config.

Cheers,
Blind

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

Posts: 1,098

Re: rt2860 (various Eee PC flavors) and Kernel 2.6.35

It's not working flawlessly with rfkill.

After disabling and re-enabling wlan via hotkey and acpi-eeepc-generic (I changed "driver" in the config from rt2860sta to rt2800pci)

chris@chriseee ~ % sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
255 chris@chriseee ~ % sudo rfkill list
0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: eeepc-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
3: phy1: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
chris@chriseee ~ % sudo rfkill unblock 3
chris@chriseee ~ % sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
chris@chriseee ~ %

Then it works.

How do I unblock it by default?

edit: Quick workaround:
/usr/bin/wlan0up

rfkill unblock $(rfkill list | grep phy | cut -f 1 -d ":")
ifconfig wlan0 up

In /etc/conf.d/acpi-eeepc-generic.conf
edit to:

COMMANDS_WIFI_POST_UP=("/usr/bin/wlan0up")

Until real solution is there.

Last edited by Cdh (2010-08-08 00:46:25)

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: rt2860 (various Eee PC flavors) and Kernel 2.6.35

Yeah... eeepc_laptop has something to do with that, I believe.

Edit: wicd seems to do deal with the hickups by itself. Up until now it seems stable.

Last edited by Blind (2010-08-09 05:12:56)

Cdh

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Registered: 2009-02-03

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Re: rt2860 (various Eee PC flavors) and Kernel 2.6.35

Also the quality meter is not working

It always reports best connection quality in networkmanager applet and in iwconfig.

Link Quality=70/70

Even when the connection is so bad that most packages are lost.

But it connects much faster especially the reconnect after suspending.

Last edited by Cdh (2010-08-09 19:09:52)

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Blind

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From: Desert mountain

Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 386

Re: rt2860 (various Eee PC flavors) and Kernel 2.6.35

The power thing is known behavior, I think. Well, there is always room for improvement, I guess.