From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HCXfr-0003oU-Hr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:52:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l118oipm010185; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:50:44 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l118kD9T004609 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:46:13 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so405528ugc for ; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:46:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZE3Wm+v9NWfqG1gaAHrHNlvdcY7CiUuH38vjBghzHZlhpqnS24KKAxHuy4SgyWIe5hQrSD3Z9jsLJg5L3+rDjy72xNJeP2sUt3pSRTiR46kniXVnMAEqpgrjbrq4eAeDseKkhDb2er3UMMmvOiTSlOHSzUMU7FoHjpIIFkK9sQM= Received: by 10.78.204.20 with SMTP id b20mr448374hug.1170319572457; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.20.7 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:46:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:46:12 -0800 From: "James Ausmus" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up In-Reply-To: <200701292330.26936.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200701292044.02582.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200701292330.26936.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fdb64aee-e9e0-4887-8354-d7dd0e1ff836 X-Archives-Hash: 964f10b35aa7fc91bef93b3495d9b8e1 On 1/29/07, Mick wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 23:06, James Ausmus wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Mick wrote: > > > 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) > > > > Bingo. :) > > Since this is a CVS package, the version that you just now installed > > is different than the one that you did have installed - CVS packages > > go out to the live development tree, pull the latest and greatest > > version of the development source code (never, ever, ever guaranteed > > to work), and use that. > > I know what you mean. :-( > > In a previous version (back in November) I had to open the source files and > correct some silly errors for it to compile properly. > > > So - possible solutions: > > 1. Figure out the date/time of the emerge of the *successful* > > rt2x00-9999 package using genlop, then check out the CVS source tree > > as of that date, and build/install by hand > > 2. Work with the rt2x00 developers to figure out the problem and get > > it corrected in the current version > > 3. Try what I'm currently doing with my rt2500 card (using the > > rt2x00-999 package compiled from CVS on Wed Jan 3 20:39:53 2007, > > according to genlop) - manually set the ESSID, AP, and encryption > > settings on the card, then issue a /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start/restart > > command. > > When you say configure it on the card do you mean in the /etc/conf.d/net file? Nope - I mean: iwconfig ra0 essid iwconfig ra0 mode iwconfig ra0 channel iwconfig ra0 ap iwconfig ra0 enc Try different sets of the above commands, if you do all of them with the proper params, but still no connectivity after a /etc/init.d/net.ra0 restart, then do: iwconfig --help And see what other commands might look interesting. You also might modprobe the rt2500usb module with debug=1 and watch your dmesg output - it might give you some insight as to *why* things are failing. :) > > > BTW - If you do figure out the date/time of the successful CVS > > package, let me know, and I'll try that one on my laptop, see if it > > fixes my problems. :) > > These two worked fine for my USB adaptor: > > Sat Dec 9 08:54:56 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999 > Wed Dec 27 17:34:33 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999 > Thanks! I'll give those a try when I get a chance. :) -James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list