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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:46:12 -0800
From: "James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up
In-Reply-To: <200701292330.26936.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On 1/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 23:06, James Ausmus wrote:
> > On 1/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 <ESSID>
iwconfig ra0 mode <MODE - probably managed>
iwconfig ra0 channel <channel>
iwconfig ra0 ap <AP MAC address>
iwconfig ra0 enc <encryption key/off> <open/restricted>
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
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