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ChemBro

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[solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Hello!

I updated the kernel (and other things) today to linux 3.0 and now I have no wlan. My EEE PC 1000H used the wlan-driver from the kernel called "rt2860sta", which is a staging driver, but (from what I read) this driver got removed, because there is a stable driver in mainline, or so.

So now I'm at a point, where I don't know how to get my wlan again. I don't know, how the driver is called, that I need and I also don't know, how I should activate it, if I knew, which one it is.

Does someone have an info about that or can someone point me into the right direction, because I don't know what to do at the moment. :-/

Last edited by ChemBro (2011-08-08 17:13:19)

Inxsible

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Have you searched the forums? There are already two threads on similar issue. Rebuild your network drivers and it should work for you.

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ChemBro

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

It is a driver in the kernel. I did not ever build my network drivers. And yes, I read the forums.

myrlin

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Here's how I fixed it on my 901:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124047

ChemBro

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Here's how I fixed it on my 901:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124047

The thing with the aur-package works for me, but that is not the solution, that I'm looking for...

And while I'm writing this post, I found the solution (and the kernel commit):

Kernel commit

rt2860sta (staging) is replaced by rt2800pci (mainline)

That is what I was looking for.

aesc

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Registered: 2009-03-16

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

So did the rt2800pci module for kernel 3.0 work for you? Because it isn't working for me, at least not with wicd. The module loads, iwconfig recognizes wlan0 as a wireless device, but wicd doesn't see any wireless networks.

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Works fine for me using wicd-cli.

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ChemBro

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

So did the rt2800pci module for kernel 3.0 work for you? Because it isn't working for me, at least not with wicd. The module loads, iwconfig recognizes wlan0 as a wireless device, but wicd doesn't see any wireless networks.

Did you tell wicd, that the wireless interface is "wlan0"? Because it changed between ra0 and wlan0 and it is a change I always forgot to edit in "preferences".

aesc

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Re: [solved] EEE PC 1000H / rt2860 and Linux 3.0 = no wlan/wifi

Did you tell wicd, that the wireless interface is "wlan0"? Because it changed between ra0 and wlan0 and it is a change I always forgot to edit in "preferences".

Aha. That did it. Connected to a WPA network. I wonder if this driver works any better than the old one, I really want to use my phone's ad-hoc network sometime.