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Post subject: WLAN with RT61 not available right away
 Posted: Dec 29, 2007 - 08:29 PM
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In a PC of a friend of mine a PCI WLAN card with RT61 chipset is installed. The installation was easy, firmware was installed via the package firmware-ralink and WLAN was setup with Ceni. So far so good.
But after a restart of the PC the WLAN is not available right away. What I have to do to get a WLAN connection is simply enter iwlist s in a terminal (as root). And when the WLAN comes up in KDE and works without any problems.
Now my question is what can I do, to get my WLAN up and running without doing the 'iwlist s', so that it starts automatically. Thanks
Best Regards,
Sordon |
Last edited by Sordon on Apr 06, 2008 - 12:05 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Post subject: WLAN with RT61 not available right away
Posted: Jan 02, 2008 - 02:13 PM
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We would have to know what exactly is not working as you like:
- upping of the card
- connection to the WLAN
First step in forensics is, I need the output of
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cat /etc/network/interfaces
If there are some keys just blabla them.
hubi |
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Posted: Jan 08, 2008 - 10:33 PM
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| OK. Here is the content of the file interfaces:
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.0.10
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
wireless-essid default
wireless-key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Posted: Jan 09, 2008 - 01:00 AM
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A hack workaround may be to add:
Code:
post-up iwlist wlan0 scan
underneath the wireless-key line.
rt61 must be a crappy driver to need this :/ |
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Posted: Jan 09, 2008 - 01:17 PM
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| The driver should be smart enough to do the initial scan for you upon driver initialization. Perhaps this tip should be passed to the rt61 developers. |
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Posted: Jan 10, 2008 - 09:56 AM
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| Somehow I think they know that, DeepDayze, hacking on drivers of that nature is not easy .... |
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Posted: Jan 10, 2008 - 02:05 PM
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i can confirm what sordon has wriiten about rt61. dhcpdiscover doesn't assign ip-address to the wlan card. Only after kde is up and running I get the card working by typing dhclient wlan1 in console. It then assigns ip-address and works.
Greetings UB |
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Posted: Apr 06, 2008 - 12:05 PM
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| I almost forgot to give a feedback, about the solution to my problem. I'm using kelmo's advice and added "post-up iwlist wlan0 scan" to the interface file. Now it works right from the beginning. |
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Posted: Apr 06, 2008 - 12:28 PM
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Sordon wrote:
I almost forgot to give a feedback, about the solution to my problem. I'm using kelmo's advice and added "post-up iwlist wlan0 scan" to the interface file. Now it works right from the beginning.
Hmm, interesting, thanks for the feedback. |
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