wireless puzzle

mcnalu · 04-24-2011, 04:51 PM

My eee pc 1000h quit due to the battery running out of juice. Obviously this wasn't ideal but the system seemed to recover with no major filesystem issues.

BUT, the wireless is no longer working. Wicd shows no ssids and neither does iwlist wlan0 scan. Iwpriv complains of no private ioctls and i see similar complaints during boot up.

Lspci shows rt2860 and it's using the rt2860sta kernel module. Loading and unloading the module doesn't get me anywhere.

Are there any relevant files i should check for corruption?

Grateful for any help here.

markush · 04-24-2011, 07:00 PM

Does your computer have a button which disables/enables the wireless network?

Note: this can also be one of the functional keys (which enables/disables the wlan), if so there must be the module for your laptop loaded. Check this with

Code:

lsmod | grep -i asus

Markus

mcnalu · 04-24-2011, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markush

Does your computer have a button which disables/enables the wireless network?

Note: this can also be one of the functional keys (which enables/disables the wlan), if so there must be the module for your laptop loaded. Check this with

Code:

lsmod | grep -i asus

Markus

Thanks Markus. It does and it works correctly but doesn't help solve this problem.

slobr · 04-25-2011, 11:00 AM

hi

have you checked rfkill to see if it's locked?

'rfkill list all'

if it's locked, and in a hard state running 'rm /dev/rfkill' will get rid of it and you should be good to go after a reboot

hope that helps

./tom

mcnalu · 04-25-2011, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slobr

hi

have you checked rfkill to see if it's locked?

'rfkill list all'

if it's locked, and in a hard state running 'rm /dev/rfkill' will get rid of it and you should be good to go after a reboot

hope that helps

./tom

Thanks slobr. Got rfkill from slackbuilds.org and it shows me the wifi is neither soft nor hard blocked. Tried rm /dev/rfkill, but to no avail

An external USB wifi thingy looks like my next option...

igadoter · 04-26-2011, 03:02 AM

Post your iwconfig wlan0. Recently I had problems due to uncorrect bit rate. Bit rate was to low or to high and connection was very unstable. First of all disable wicd. Try to run network manually via wpa_supplicant etc.

Code:

# chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd
# reboot

after reboot

Code:

# ifconfig 
# iwconfig wlan0 essid "your essid"
# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
# iwconfig 
# dhcpcd wlan0
# ping -I wlan0 your.gateway.IP

If iwconfig shows there is no association try

Code:

# wpa_cli
> status

Take into account that all that commands work for my Slackware 12.2. If you are using later version you may need some changes. If ping shows that you are loosing packets try to change a bit rate

Code:

# iwconfig wlan0 rate ``newrate"M

``newrate" is a number, M means Mbits/sec. The safe choices are between 11 and 24.