On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I have checked, and ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 package were > > uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic. > > > > The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187. I wonder if this is part of the > > problem. Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197? > > > > The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case: > > http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/ > > > > Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and > > perhaps perform a similar modification? > > (can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in > this mailing list). > > Your device may still be supported by the driver. The problem may exist > with the wpa_supplicant. You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant > in your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead. > Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0 > scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) . Of course > you will need to remove WPA from the AP. Should all this succeed you can > work your way up from there. > > PS. I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb > for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently.
I tried removing any reference to wpa_supplicant. The alternative /etc/conf.d/net configuration that I tried is: essid_wlan0="mynetworkname" channel_wlan0=( "2" ) # the channel my wireless card is presently set to key_home=( "my_hex_WEP_key enc open" ) config_wlan0=( "dhcp" ) dhcpcd_wlan0="-I ''" iwlist wlan0 scanning returns wlan0 Interface does not support scanning : Network is down iwlist wlan0 accesspoint returns wlan0 Interface doesn't have a list of Peers/Access-Points At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg is . phy0: RF calibration failed! 0 If I could figure out what this line meant, and what I could do to fix it, I might be on my way to a potential solution. Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
