From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:43:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701292044.02582.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
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My only consolation is that this fault is not intermittent. :-(
Here's what happened. I emerged a different (to my tried & tested rt2x00-9999
wireless driver). Then I uninstalled rt2x00-9999, but I couldn't get the new
driver to work. So, I unmerged it, remerged rt2x00-9999 (this is a CVS
package) and I have not been able to make it work ever since. I even
recompiled the kernel in hope of getting it to work, but I can't get it to
detect any Access Points:
=====================================================
# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
* Starting wlan0
* Loading networking modules for wlan0
* modules: apipa arping ccwgroup macchanger macnet rename ifplugd
iwconfig essidnet iptunnel iproute2 pppd system dhcpcd ip6to4
* ifplugd provides plug
* iwconfig provides wireless
* iproute2 provides interface
* pppd provides ppp
* dhcpcd provides dhcp
* Configuring wlan0 for MAC address 00:11:50:18:55:3F ... [ ok ]
* ifplugd does not work on wireless interfaces
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* Scanning for access points
* no access points found
* Couldn't find any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 [ !! ]
=====================================================
Here's some additional relevant info:
=====================================================
# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
=====================================================
The device and its modules are loaded:
=====================================================
# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 050d:7050 Belkin Components F5D7050 ver 1000 WiFi
# lsmod | grep -i 2500
rt2500usb 31168 0
80211 157644 2 rt2500usb,rc80211_simple
# lsmod | grep -i 80211
ieee80211softmac 26880 0
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 6720 0
ieee80211_crypt_wep 4032 0
rc80211_simple 4416 0
80211 157644 2 rt2500usb,rc80211_simple
=====================================================
tcpdump doesn't show much when run immediately after I insert the adaptor:
=====================================================
# tcpdump -vv -i wlan0
tcpdump: WARNING: wlan0: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: listening on wlan0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68
bytes
tcpdump: pcap_loop: recvfrom: Network is down
0 packets captured
0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel
=====================================================
Would you perhaps know how I may be able to troubleshoot this thing before I
lose my temper and throw it out of the window?
PS. I might have un/plugged it during probing/scanning - could that have
caused some physical damage?
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Regards,
Mick
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next reply other threads:[~2007-01-29 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-29 20:43 Mick [this message]
2007-01-29 23:06 ` [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up James Ausmus
[not found] ` <200701292330.26936.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <200701302134.31581.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
2007-02-01 8:40 ` James Ausmus
2007-02-01 8:46 ` James Ausmus
[not found] ` <200702012054.00182.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
2007-02-02 0:15 ` James Ausmus
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