11.1 and RT2860 (RaLink 2700E b/g/n)

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The problem I have is making WiFi working on MSI Wind U100 with RaLink 2700E b/g/n card.

During installation of openSUSE 11.1 (via WLAN) the driver RT2860 ver. 1.8.0.0-2.7 was automatically installed.

I can see available networks in KNetworkManager and also if I try to connect using ifup. The problem is that I can’t connect (using WPA-PSK). KNetworkManager stops connection on “State: IP configuration”.

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

ra0       RT2860 Wireless  ESSID:""  Nickname:"RT2860STA"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency=2.457 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level:-44 dBm  Noise level:-97 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I tought I’ll try with WPA GUI for WPA Supplicant.

I disabled NetwokManager, and installed it.
WPA GUI log shows something like that (“MAC_ADDRESS” stays for my RaLink MAC):

CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
Trying to associate with MAC_ADDRESS (SSID='Network_Name' freq=2457 MHz)
Associated with MAC_ADDRESS
WPA: Key negotiation completed with MAC_ADDRESS [PTK=TKIP GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to MAC_ADDRESS completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=]
WPA: Group rekeying completed with MAC_ADDRESS [GTK=TKIP]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
Trying to associate with MAC_ADDRESS (SSID='Network_Name' freq=2457 MHz)
Associated with MAC_ADDRESS

and so on...

I’m back to KNetworkManager, and surprising is that once for about 20 reboots I get my wireless working on boot.

Any idea how to solve the problem?

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Sorry, I can’t edit the post above.

The configuration file /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log says:

CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS

Originally the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like that:


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

I have tried manually set up my network following this instruction, and have changed the configuration file to make it look like that:


ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

network={
        ssid="NameOfMyNetwork"
        psk="MyNetworkPassword"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        priority=5
        proto=WPA
}

Still no success…

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This response is based on my experience using OpenSuSE 11.0 and the driver downloaded from RaLink’s site. It appears that you may already have the rt2860 driver installed and working, and that the residual issue relates to WPA and wpa_supplicant. I’m ignorant of this form of security, but did get things working with NetworkManager and 128 bit WEP. You might consider giving this a try if this form of wireless security is acceptable in your application.

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are you still having problems? I am working with the same problem in Launchpad with other Ubutnu workers.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339891

if you are happy with removing the kernel/suse driver and downloading/patching the Ralink driver then building it from source and seeing if it can solve your problem?