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myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 300

[SOLVED]No Wireless after Linux 3 upgrade (EeePC)

I have just upgraded my EeePC901 to Linux 3. Everything seems to be working fine, except wireless networking.

The Network Manager entry is:

SSID: WLAN
Mode: Infrastructure
BSSID: <blank>
Device MAC address: <blank>
Cloned MAC address: <balnk>
MTU: automatic

iwconfig reports:
lo   no wireless connections
eth0 no wireless connections

modprobe rt2860 reports:
FATAL: Module rt2860 not found

lsmod does not report any wireless modules.

I would be very grateful for any help.

Last edited by myrlin (2011-08-08 13:12:05)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED]No Wireless after Linux 3 upgrade (EeePC)

Here's a thread with the same problem but he was using broadcom wireless. He simply unloaded and reloaded the related modules. See if a similar solution works for you.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124036

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Re: [SOLVED]No Wireless after Linux 3 upgrade (EeePC)

as usually, you have to take care of aur packages. in your case you need to recompile rt2860 after every major kernel upgrade

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linux-ka

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Registered: 2010-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED]No Wireless after Linux 3 upgrade (EeePC)

You have to compile the driver against the kernel. Therefore you should install the corresponding kernel-headers. That's all.

EDIT:

too slow....

Last edited by linux-ka (2011-08-08 10:55:00)

myrlin

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 300

Re: [SOLVED]No Wireless after Linux 3 upgrade (EeePC)

The solution was simple! I had blacklisted the various rt2x00 modules as described on the EeePC 901 wiki page. Un- blacklisting got things working again, although communication speed seems slow.

(Edit: iwconfig reports a bit rate of 6Mb/s)

(Edit 2: I downloaded rt2860 from the AUR, replaced references to "kernel26" with "linux" in the PKGBUILD, built the package successfully, then installed it. I inserted the module with "modprobe rt2860sta", then ran depmod -a. I re-blacklisted the other rt2* modules, then re-booted. Everything is now fine, with iwconfig reporting 54Mb/s)

Last edited by myrlin (2011-08-08 16:14:50)