#1 2016-02-18 03:52:05

dudebro

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Registered: 2016-02-18

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Ralink wireless unable to connect

Hey everyone, just installed bunsenlabs linux on my Asus eeepc and I'm loving it.  Having a hard time getting my wireless going though.  Here is some information I've gathered that will hopefully help someone guide me in the right direction.

I followed https://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci and my wireless card is supported, RT2790.

$ sudo apt-get install firmware-ralink
...
firmware-ralink is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ lspci -nn|grep Network
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe [1814:0781]

$ lsmod |grep rt
iTCO_vendor_support    12585  1 iTCO_wdt
rt2800pci              12921  0 
rt2800mmio             13206  1 rt2800pci
rt2800lib              72379  2 rt2800pci,rt2800mmio
rt2x00pci              12472  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00mmio             12545  2 rt2800pci,rt2800mmio
rt2x00lib              41387  5 rt2x00pci,rt2800lib,rt2800pci,rt2800mmio,rt2x00mmio
eeprom_93cx6           12561  1 rt2800pci
mac80211              421532  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800lib
cfg80211              350041  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
crc_ccitt              12331  1 rt2800lib

$ dmesg|grep rt
...
[   41.444654] rt2800pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rt2860.bin

$ rfkill list
0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: eeepc-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
4: phy2: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

No matter what I have tried I can't get my card to pick up any wireless networks.

$ sudo iwlist scan
wlan0     No scan results

I've tried to set up the network with network manager but i've had 0 success.  Also, I just migrated over from lubuntu and I had the wireless working there without any issues for a few years (I have forgotten if I had to take any unique steps).  I can't find any errors about firmware mismatchers or anything that stands out in any log files. 

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by dudebro (2016-02-18 19:36:14)

Horizon_Brave

Operating System: Linux-Nettrix

Registered: 2015-10-18

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

Can you confirm that the wlan interface is apart of the network, assigned an IP, and gateway?
I'm assuming you're using network-manager, what's the output of

nmcli dev

lol, and it maybe silly, but have you checked to make sure the wlan switch if physically switched to 'on' on your laptop or pc?

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Horizon_Brave

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

oh whoops, just saw that you said you didn't set up network-manager...what's giving you grief with setting it up?

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dudebro

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Registered: 2016-02-18

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

I've tried using network manager to set it up but it does not show any networks available to connect to.  I've also tried setting it up as a network without a broadcasted SSID and that did not work either (SSID is broadcasted).

dudebro

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Registered: 2016-02-18

Posts: 4

Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

lol, and it maybe silly, but have you checked to make sure the wlan switch if physically switched to 'on' on your laptop or pc?

I have no physical switch but I can disable wireless with an fn key.  It works as expected, when disable it doesn't show the ability to wirelessly connect in network manager, when enabled it shows up, but doesn't find any networks to connect to.

xaos52

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Registered: 2015-09-30

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

Post output of following commands:

ps -eF | grep -iE 'network|wpa|dhc'
sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces

damo

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

Post output of following commands:

ps -eF | grep -iE 'network|wpa|dhc'
sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces

@OP ...and please use [ code ] tags this time

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dudebro

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

Wow, I can't believe it.  I came home today and took a look and my wireless  connections and my network was available.

Could this have had something to do with dhcp on my router?

Horizon_Brave

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Re: Ralink wireless unable to connect

Wow, I can't believe it.  I came home today and took a look and my wireless  connections and my network was available.

Could this have had something to do with dhcp on my router?

I'm not sure. Perhaps. What does your

ifconfig -a

  say? Does that wlan interface have an IP? I'm not sure what it looked like before. Can you still run the

cat /etc/network/interfaces

  as well?

If it were DHCP issues, I'm not sure if you would or would not have atleast seen the network

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2016-02-18 22:47:03)

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