Hi everyone,
I have installed opensuse 11.2 on a second partition, with the ultimate aim of leaving windows altogether. Unfortunately, I seem to be having terrible trouble (as do many others) getting my wireless internet connection working. I have viewed lots of posts in these forums and done everything I can think of, but since I am a linux novice, am unable to identify the problem. The card is working, since it can identify local SSIDs, it has been set up (to the best of my knowledge) correctly in YAST, but nothing seems to work. Any help would be really appreciated!
I’ll include some information I have recorded from my system…
I typed the commands below with the accompanying output listed:
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan:
Cell 04 - Address: my router’s mac address
Channel:13
Frequency:2.472 GHz (Channel 13)
Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Encryption key: on
ESSID:“my ssid”
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=000000c3b282c183
Extra: Last beacon: 273ms ago
IE: Unknown: 000B70657465726C617572656E
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 03010D
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: DD090010180203F0000000
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
/usr/sbin/iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“my ssid”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: my router’s mac address
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=6 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Power Management: on
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:0 Missed beacon:0
/usr/sbin/iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“my ssid”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.472 GHz Access Point: my router’s mac address
Bit Rate=36 Mb/s Tx-Power=6 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Power Management: on
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: 0 Missed beacon:0
/sbin/ifconfig:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr my wlan card’s mac address
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:2eff:fe9d:6783/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4782 (4.6 Kb) TX bytes:29910 (29.2 Kb)
netstat:
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
/sbin/lspci: - relevant line
02:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
/sbin/lspci -n -relevant line
02:07.0 0280: 1814:0301
dmesg | grep wlan:
85.315444] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
187.069746] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
187.071108] wlan0: direct probe to AP my router’s mac address try 1
187.073298] wlan0: direct probe to AP my router’s mac address try 1
187.078916] wlan0 direct probe responded
187.078924] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1f:33:46:64:d0
187.081826] wlan0: authenticated
187.081834] wlan0: associate with AP my router’s mac address
187.084251] wlan0: RX AssocResp from my router’s mac address (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
187.084256] wlan0: associated
187.085047] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
197.273023] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
dmesg | grep firmware:
85.285473] rt61pci 0000:02:07.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin