Linksys wireless WMP600N - Error suse 11.2

KrAaY · February 13, 2010, 11:19pm

Hi,

I bought the wireless PCI network card WMP600N from Linksys. I tried to connect with my router, but no success. The correct driver is installed(RT2800), the necessary package WPA_supplement is also installed.

My providers settings are WPA-PSK with a shared key. Key encryption is TKIP. I can’t choose TKIP in the Yast network menu. so i chose passphrase.

the weird thing is that the wifimanager says WEP is on but it’s not, at least not in my router and i did not setup WEP to. see picture 6.

i had to use manual boot “ifup wlan0” because when i use boot at startup the whole systeem freezes.

anyway, when i use ifup wlan0 as root in the konsole, the system also freezes.

i hope i have explained it clearly, please take a look a the pictures.

step1
http://i47.tinypic.com/2le1l35.png

step2
http://i50.tinypic.com/1z221aa.png

step3
http://i49.tinypic.com/sdzc7b.png

step4 After pressing enter the system freezes.
http://i48.tinypic.com/ngu2s6.png

lwfinger · February 14, 2010, 6:12am

On 02/13/2010 04:26 PM, KrAaY wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I bought the wireless PCI network card WMP600N from Linksys. I tried to
> connect with my router, but no success. The correct driver is
> installed(RT2800), the necessary package WPA_supplement is also
> installed.
>
> My providers settings are WPA-PSK with a shared key. Key encryption is
> TKIP. I can’t choose TKIP in the Yast network menu. so i chose
> passphrase.
>
> the weird thing is that the wifimanager says WEP is on but it’s not, at
> least not in my router and i did not setup WEP to. see picture 6.
>
> i had to use manual boot “ifup wlan0” because when i use boot at
> startup the whole systeem freezes.
>
> anyway, when i use ifup wlan0 as root in the konsole, the system also
> freezes.

Upgrade your kernel to 2.6.31.12. There is a bug in 2.6.31.8 that causes a
kernel panic.

KrAaY · February 14, 2010, 9:09pm

Thank u, that did help.
The system does not freeze anymore…but still i cant connect to the internet.

it does gives me a ip adress now.

wlan0 device: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
wlan0 warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported
wlan0 warning: by this device
wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. . . . . . . .
wlan0 DHCP4 continues in background

Still cant connect…as u can see the output gives a warning.
Could u help me fix that please ?

KrAaY · February 14, 2010, 9:37pm

SSID error ?

http://i49.tinypic.com/2i7tm2w.png

KrAaY · February 14, 2010, 9:51pm

Iwconfig output,

Earth:/ # iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:“SpeedTouch67FBA2” Nickname:“RT2860STA”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:9F:C3:8B:5F
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key: off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-53 dBm Noise level:-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

lwfinger · February 14, 2010, 11:33pm

On 02/14/2010 02:56 PM, KrAaY wrote:
>
> Iwconfig output,
>
>> Earth:/ # iwconfig
>>
>> lo no wireless extensions.
>>
>> wlan0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:“SpeedTouch67FBA2”
>> Nickname:“RT2860STA”
>> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point:
>> 00:1F:9F:C3:8B:5F
>> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
>> RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
>> Encryption key: off
>> Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-53 dBm Noise level:-71
>> dBm
>> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
>> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>>
>> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> eth1 no wireless extensions.

You have authenticated. Please post the output of the following:

/sbin/route -n
cat /etc/resolv.conf

KrAaY · February 15, 2010, 2:06am

Route -n output,

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

**
resolv.conf output,**

/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!

Before you change this file manually, consider to define the

static DNS configuration using the following variables in the

/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:

NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=’’

See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.

Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but

may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines

only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this

file and in case of a “netconfig update -f” call.

Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!

search human lan
nameserver 192.168.1.254

lwfinger · February 15, 2010, 2:26am

The data you posted are for your wired connection. Does it work?

Ithought you wanted a wireless connection. If so, disconnect the wire and try to
make a wireless connection, then repeat.

KrAaY · February 15, 2010, 7:50am

Yes the wired connection does work.
Yes i do want a wirelles connection, but i need the cabel plugged in when i want to post on the forum.

This is the output when the cabel is plugged out,

Earth:/ # ifup wlan0
wlan0 device: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
wlan0 warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported
wlan0 warning: by this device
wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. . . . . . . .
wlan0 DHCP4 continues in background

Earth:/ # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan0

Earth:/ # cat /etc/resolv.conf

/etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig!

Before you change this file manually, consider to define the

static DNS configuration using the following variables in the

/etc/sysconfig/network/config file:

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SEARCHLIST

NETCONFIG_DNS_STATIC_SERVERS

NETCONFIG_DNS_FORWARDER

or disable DNS configuration updates via netconfig by setting:

NETCONFIG_DNS_POLICY=’’

See also the netconfig(8) manual page and other documentation.

Note: Manual change of this file disables netconfig too, but

may get lost when this file contains comments or empty lines

only, the netconfig settings are same with settings in this

file and in case of a “netconfig update -f” call.

Please remove (at least) this line when you modify the file!

search human lan
nameserver 192.168.1.254
Earth:/ #

lwfinger · February 15, 2010, 6:49pm

On 02/15/2010 12:56 AM, KrAaY wrote:
>
> Yes the wired connection does work.
> Yes i do want a wirelles connection, but i need the cabel plugged in
> when i want to post on the forum.
>
>
> This is the output when the cabel is plugged out,
>
>> Earth:/ # ifup wlan0
>> wlan0 device: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
>> wlan0 warning: WPA configured but may be unsupported
>> wlan0 warning: by this device
>> wlan0 starting wpa_supplicant
>> Starting DHCP4 client on wlan0. . . . . . . .
>> wlan0 DHCP4 continues in background

Your routing table looks fine, as does your resolv.conf. The only thing I notice
is that your /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 specifies WPA, but your iwconfig
output a few posts ago said that it was unencrypted. Which is it?

KrAaY · February 15, 2010, 10:25pm

I am using,(if thats what u mean)

WPA-PSK-version : WPA+WPA2
WPA-PSK-code : TKIP+AES (I can’t choose TKIP in the Yast network menu.So i chose passphrase)

What i dont understand is this,
Here u can see that wlan0 has the ip 192.168.1.73 and looks fine.
But i cant connect or ping to the internet or the router when using wlan0.

I’m getting pretty frustrated here…

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:17:42:CB:A5
          inet addr:192.168.1.72  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:17ff:fe42:cba5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4921 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2395247 (2.2 Mb)  TX bytes:593279 (579.3 Kb)
          Interrupt:29

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6574 (6.4 Kb)  TX bytes:6574 (6.4 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:9C: DE:05:7C
          inet addr:192.168.1.73  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:9cff:fede:57c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6545 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7166451 (6.8 Mb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:18

jaybott · February 15, 2010, 10:33pm

I am using this exact same card on my desktop with 11.2 and it works perfectly right out of the box with nothing extra to install. The only thing differently between you and I is that I am using knetworkmanager to manage mine and using wpa2 instead of wep.

KrAaY · February 15, 2010, 10:56pm

I also use wpa2, why kwifi says its WEP i dont know.
But the router settings show WPA2 and in YaST —> networksettings i have chosen WPA+WPA2.

In Knetworkmanager i can choose TKIP. but still wlan0 does not connect.

I going to bed now.I will try again tomorrow.

Thank u.

KrAaY · February 16, 2010, 1:10pm

I returned the card to the shop and bought myself a 15 meter cabel. What a relief ! The good old cabel…always works.

Anyway, thanks for your help and patience.