wireless driver is successfully installed and NIC can be up,but failed to connect to AP

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#1

I installed opensuse11.4 in MAC mini, that’s double OS in this PC. I try to use netgear WNDA4100 and driver is successfully installed. I can boot up this NIC per command:
ifconfig ra0 up

I can get NIC info via command:
hp352:~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:“test” Nickname:“RT2870STA”
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1D:D1:44:71:00
Bit Rate=130 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-9 dBm Noise level:-9 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I use wpa_supplicant to connect this NIC to AP. But only when security mode is open and ap_scan=0, this NIC can connect to AP. In all other security mode, wpa_cli status is always scanning and associating. I try another wireless NIC, the same issue happened. How can I make NIC connect to AP? Thanks very much.

#2

On 02/20/2013 12:26 AM, czj9009 wrote:
>
> I installed opensuse11.4 in MAC mini, that’s double OS in this PC. I try
> to use netgear WNDA4100 and driver is successfully installed. I can boot
> up this NIC per command:
> ifconfig ra0 up
>
> I can get NIC info via command:
> hp352:~ # iwconfig
> lo no wireless extensions.
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:“test” Nickname:“RT2870STA”
> Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point:
> 00:1D:D1:44:71:00
> Bit Rate=130 Mb/s
> RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> Encryption key:off
> Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-9 dBm Noise level:-9 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
>
> I use wpa_supplicant to connect this NIC to AP. But only when security
> mode is open and ap_scan=0, this NIC can connect to AP. In all other
> security mode, wpa_cli status is always scanning and associating. I try
> another wireless NIC, the same issue happened. How can I make NIC
> connect to AP? Thanks very much.

Are you aware that 11.4 has reached its end of life. It is no longer receiving
security updates. In addition, the driver that your device uses has been
replaced by a completely different one and is now called rt2800_pci.

My first recommendation is that you install openSUSE 12.2. If you do not want to
do that, then download the compat-wireless package for your kernel, it it is
still available.

#3

Thanks very much for your reply. I also try opensuse 12.2 but I failed to install this USB NIC into 12.2. Actually I have another PC installed suse11.4 and this NIC. In that PC ,the NIC works well. I think the problem I faced maybe it’s not the issue of NIC driver. Because another NIC based brcm solution doesn’t work. The detail information is that when I set ap_scan=1 in file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, the return connection status is always wpa_state=Associating. When i set ap_scan=0, the return connection status is always wpa_state=Associated but can’t reach wpa_state=Complete. Expect your more help.

#4

Thanks very much for your reply. I also try opensuse 12.2 but I failed to install this USB NIC into 12.2. Actually I have another PC installed suse11.4 and this NIC. In that PC ,the NIC works well. I think the problem I faced maybe it’s not the issue of NIC driver. Because another NIC based brcm solution doesn’t work. The detail information is that when I set ap_scan=1 in file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, the return connection status is always wpa_state=Associating. When i set ap_scan=0, the return connection status is always wpa_state=Associated but can’t reach wpa_state=Complete. Expect your more help. Thanks