[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
first, the short form of the question -- has anyone got that wireless adapter working on centos 5.5 and associated with an access point that uses WPA/WPA2 security? and the details. in a classroom where there is *no* wired networking at all, all PCs have only that wireless net adapter, which works fine on windows but, after installing centos 5.5, unsurprisingly, we have no networking. there is no backup wired network, and no other adapters. there is a CD that came with the adapters, with a Linux directory, so it was easy enough to dump that onto my personal centos 5.5 box, and run make which generated the loadable rt3070sta.ko module. and, yes, that module loads. so far, so good. however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure the wireless interface for that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they were closing for the evening. thoughts? any advice humongously appreciated. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure the wireless interface for that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they were closing for the evening. thoughts? any advice humongously appreciated. These CentOS wili pages will help: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager and http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure the wireless interface for that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they were closing for the evening. thoughts? any advice humongously appreciated. These CentOS wili pages will help: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager and http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant *sigh*. i really need to check the wiki first before asking stuff like this. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: there is a CD that came with the adapters, with a Linux directory, so it was easy enough to dump that onto my personal centos 5.5 box, and run make which generated the loadable rt3070sta.ko module. and, yes, that module loads. so far, so good. If the module builds and loads cleanly when done manually, you are half way home ;) however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure the wireless interface for that. and that's about when i got kicked out of the classroom as they were closing for the evening. heh -- wpa_supplicant is 'lightly' documented, and the process for getting a wholly text mode wireless connection, and auto-selecting between open and secure with WPA or WPA2 AP's seems like a dark art. The following is from memory as the unit in question is not physically on, and not remotely reachable at the moment [As a bit of background, I was tempted by the price of an 'e-machine' box, while travelling and a laptop died while on the road -- the darn thing takes non-CentOS 'wl' Broadcom wireless drivers, and the 'atl1c' wired network driver, of which I solved one manually, and the other one with a package from El Repo /me waves to that fine effort ] It turns out not to be a 'dark art' to get wireless networking on the darn thing after all, but it was not trivial, either. I reading man pages, tailing logs, stracing stuff, and so forth. Most of the effort ended up in getting the configuration correct in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf AND having to add a custom add on initscript, and did edits in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant to get the whole shebang working properly and hands off Quick answer is that a script to this effect ran at step S98, and basically: stopped networking stopped a running wpa_supplicant rpmmod'd an instance of my locally compiled wireless driver module re-loaded said custom wireless driver module # [ at this point the driver REALLY loaded ] [re]started the wpa_supplicant [re]started the networking and dhcp, and the wireless supplicant basically did a: iwlist eth0 scan ... which then walked the enumeration of ESSID's and looked for a match in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Once found, wpa_supplicant hands along the required credential, and 'magic happens' I assume there are various GUI goop tools to this effect, but I am not much of a GUI person ;) I'll try to remember to write this up more formally. Hope this helps -- end == .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- Copyright (C) 2010 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com My words are not deathless prose, but they are mine. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:11:56PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: heh -- wpa_supplicant is 'lightly' documented, and the process for getting a wholly text mode wireless connection, and auto-selecting between open and secure with WPA or WPA2 AP's seems like a dark art. The following is from memory as the unit in question is not physically on, and not remotely reachable at the moment Yes, I remember first researching it, and yes, it was a pain to find at the time. However, (ta da!!!) I have a page on setting it up--mostly written for Fedora users who were getting bitten by NetworkManager, but it goes through testing and setting wpa_supplicant. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/wireless.html It's not exactly a step by step, and was made for a different purpose, but see if it works for you. (If the wpa.conf test file that I mention works, then just copy it over to replace the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf) I have another page, that also covers it, as well as having a link to a more in depth tutorial--again, it was for a specific Fedora issue, but does go through (in the link to Mike's tutorial) a more detailed write up of setting up wpa_supplicant.conf. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Spike: A, my head. I think I'm sobering up. It's horrible. Ah... God... I wish I was dead. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
