On 17/02/07, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> wlan0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"homenet" Nickname:"default"
> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:0 dBm
> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:6F7A-6F6E-6573-616D-6900-0000-00 Security
> mode:restricted
Where do you live? I could do with some Internet access, as mine is
playing up :)
More seriously, now the list is open-archive, I would advise changing
your WPA key immediately.
Tx-power: 0 dBm doesn't look at all good, but I don't know how to fix
it or if there's an innocuous explanation.
> But there are no lights on the card or internet access, the machine thinks it
> working as the wireless network comes up saying it is connected and it then
> confuses itself as it also has eth0 which then fails to work until I ifdown
> wlan0 (I have dropped eth0 but the lan still failed to connect)
>
> I have mac filtering and wpa-psk with tkip on the AP, I have turned the
> encryption off but still no joy. Everything I have read says that the card is
> linux compatible.
>
> I know I could try ndiswrapper but as this card is confirmed as being linux
> compatible then I want to try and run it natively.
>
> Any suggestions?
Ensure the computer is a matter of inches from the AP and there are no
obstacles in its path. This will eliminate poor signal as a cause of
your problems. It's especially worth considering if the machine is
located in a different room to the AP.
I personally have had the ralink chipset (it was a Belkin card)
working fine with the rt2500 module compiled against a 2.6.17 kernel.
I'm pretty sure I had WPA-PSK using TKIP working too, but I ended up
not using it due to signal attenuation between the PC and the AP. I
believe some distros have the ralink drivers compiled into their
kernels.
G
