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On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote: |
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> Hi Jeff, |
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> On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> > I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were |
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> > uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic. |
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> > |
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> > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the |
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> > problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197? |
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> > |
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> > The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case: |
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> > http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ |
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> > |
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> > Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and |
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> > perhaps perform a similar modification? |
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> |
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> (can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in |
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> this mailing list). |
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> Your device may still be supported by the driver. The problem may exist |
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> with the wpa_supplicant. You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant |
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> in your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead. |
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> Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0 |
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> scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) . Of course |
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> you will need to remove WPA from the AP. Should all this succeed you can |
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> work your way up from there. |
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> PS. I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb |
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> for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently. |
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I tried removing any reference to wpa_supplicant. The |
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alternative /etc/conf.d/net configuration that I tried is: |
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essid_wlan0="mynetworkname" |
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channel_wlan0=( "2" ) # the channel my wireless card is presently set to |
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key_home=( "my_hex_WEP_key enc open" ) |
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config_wlan0=( "dhcp" ) |
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dhcpcd_wlan0="-I ''" |
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iwlist wlan0 scanning returns |
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wlan0 Interface does not support scanning : Network is down |
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iwlist wlan0 accesspoint returns |
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wlan0 Interface doesn't have a list of Peers/Access-Points |
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At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg is . |
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phy0: RF calibration failed! 0 |
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If I could figure out what this line meant, and what I could do to fix it, I |
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might be on my way to a potential solution. |
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Jeff |
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