RaLink 3290 issue

eddiekimberly · February 6, 2014, 8:47am

Hello all. New to the forum and to OpenSuSE, but not to Linux. Have been a Ubuntu and Mint user for years. I am having an issue that I am hoping to get worked out so I can continue to use OpenSuSE. I have the RaLink RT3290 WiFi/Bluetooth card and am having problems staying connected. I am on OpenSuSE 13.1 with kernel version 3.11.6-4. I have no trouble connecting. The card was detected with no issue at all but it disconnects me, seemingly randomly. It may be 2 minutes or 30 minutes, but it never fails. I ran some (what I hope are) diagnostic commands and have the outputs so that maybe someone can help me figure out what is going on.

/sbin/lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Complex [1022:1410]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity [Radeon HD 7520G] [1002:9990]
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Trinity HDMI Audio Controller [1002:9902]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Root Port [1022:1414]
00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:7812] (rev 03)
00:10.1 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:7812] (rev 03)
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7804]
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 14)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge [1022:780f] (rev 40)
00:15.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0) [1022:43a0]
00:15.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Hudson PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:43a1]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 0 [1022:1400]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 1 [1022:1401]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 2 [1022:1402]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 3 [1022:1403]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 4 [1022:1404]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 15h (Models 10h-1fh) Processor Function 5 [1022:1405]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
02:00.1 Bluetooth [0d11]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth [1814:3298]
04:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5229] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)

/sbin/lsmod | grep rt2800
rt2800pci 22815 0
rt2x00mmio 13603 1 rt2800pci
rt2800lib 79992 1 rt2800pci
crc_ccitt 12707 1 rt2800lib
rt2x00pci 13287 1 rt2800pci
rt2x00lib 55375 4 rt2800pci,rt2x00mmio,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
mac80211 635562 3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
eeprom_93cx6 13344 1 rt2800pci

/usr/sbin/iwconfig

eno1 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlo1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:“FBI Surveillance Van No 2”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:15:FF:30:37:18
Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=46/70 Signal level=-64 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:30 Missed beacon:0

(And, yes, my wireless network name is FBI Surveillance Van No 2)
When it drops the connection, it loses all traces of it. When I go back to try to reconnect, it’s like the wireless card has been cut off. I have to restart to get my network back. SOMETIMES, I can log out and back in, but normally, have to restart. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

djh-novell · February 6, 2014, 11:33am

eddiekimberly wrote:
> Hello all. New to the forum and to OpenSuSE, but not to Linux. Have been
> a Ubuntu and Mint user for years. I am having an issue that I am hoping
> to get worked out so I can continue to use OpenSuSE. I have the RaLink
> RT3290 WiFi/Bluetooth card and am having problems staying connected.

You probably want to get this post moved to the wireless forum, after
reading the stickies there. AFAIK if you report your own post and ask
for it to be moved a mod will then do it.

hcvv · February 6, 2014, 7:56pm

This will be moved to Wireless and is CLOSED for the moment.

hcvv · February 6, 2014, 8:08pm

Moved from Hardware and open again.

hcvv · February 6, 2014, 8:13pm

Hello eddiekimberly,

I see you are new here. Be welcome.

Please, as said, read the stickies at the beginning of the Wireless forum. They will tell you what informatiion to post.

Also, we have a feature here om the forums that is quite important, but not easy to find for newcomers. When you post computer text, please do so between CODE tags. You get them by clicking on the # button in the tool bar of the post editor. Wheneve possible post complete, the peompt, the command, the output and the nextr prompt in one sweep between the CODE tags. It will improve readability enormous.

eddiekimberly · February 6, 2014, 9:53pm

Thanks for the advice. This forum is waaay different than what I am used to. Update, I did look at the logfile after my last disconnect and got this message.

wlo1: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:15:ff:30:37:18 (SSID='FBI Surveillance Van No 2' freq=2437 MHz)
wlo1: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:15:ff:30:37:18 (SSID='FBI Surveillance Van No 2' freq=2437 MHz)
wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:15:ff:30:37:18 reason=3 locally_generated=1
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
wlo1: SME: Trying to authenticate with 00:15:ff:30:37:18 (SSID='FBI Surveillance Van No 2' freq=2437 MHz)
wlo1: Trying to associate with 00:15:ff:30:37:18 (SSID='FBI Surveillance Van No 2' freq=2437 MHz)
wlo1: Associated with 00:15:ff:30:37:18
wlo1: WPA: Tx bit set for GTK, but pairwise keys are used - ignore Tx bit
wlo1: WPA: Key negotiation completed with 00:15:ff:30:37:18 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
wlo1: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:15:ff:30:37:18 completed [id=0 id_str=]

I truncated the output but its this over and over for each time I have been disconnected.