[SOLVED] cannot get wireless running on netbook

Ditzy · #1 13th August 2011, 06:42 PM

i have the same problem, i installed fedora on my netbook without problems, but i can not connect for the same reason. 15 seconds before prompting me for the password and continues like this.

How can you update an installation with no internet?

bbfuller · #2 13th August 2011, 07:08 PM

Hello Ditzy

Are you saying that you have the same rt3060 chip in your netbooks wireless?

Ditzy · #3 14th August 2011, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbfuller

Hello Ditzy

Are you saying that you have the same rt3060 chip in your netbooks wireless?

I have no idea what chip there is in the netbook.
But i have the same problem as the TS
Cannot connect wireless, always trying to connect but need to renter the password everytime and no connection is made

bbfuller · #4 14th August 2011, 04:27 PM

Hello Ditzy

I'd suggest that you run the commands:

Code:

lspci

or

Code:

lsusb

depending on your wireless hardware, to identify what you have and start a new thread for your problem with the card chipset in the title.

Unlike Windows, in Linux it's the chipset that is important not what the manufacturer calls it.

leigh123linux · #5 14th August 2011, 06:41 PM

Posts merged.

Ditzy · #6 14th August 2011, 07:36 PM

thx leigh123linux

---------- Post added at 07:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:43 PM ----------

with the security off i am doing an update of the fedora trough yum.
When update is done i am going to secure the network again and try to connect again.
would be great is the normal update solved the problem

ill get back with the results

---------- Post added at 08:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:49 PM ----------

tested it, but still it keeps asking for authentication after about 15 seconds.
i use WPA2 to secure the connection by the way

Ditzy · #7 16th August 2011, 08:25 PM

on a dutch linux forum the asked me for dmesg info

maybe you guys know what to do with it to, so this problem can get solved.

Code:

[root@Koen-NET ~]# dmesg | grep fail
[    0.152177] ACPI Error: [CAPB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/dsfield-143)
[    0.152194] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node f4c2ee88), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/psparse-536)
[    0.163097] ACPI Error: [CAPB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/dsfield-143)
[    0.163114] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node f4c2ee88), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/psparse-536)
[    0.163297] ACPI Error: [CAPB] Namespace lookup failure, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/dsfield-143)
[    0.163312] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0._OSC] (Node f4c2ee88), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20110413/psparse-536)
[    0.163340]  pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS), returned control mask: 0x1d
[   73.516356] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[   73.523226] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[   74.032982] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed

Code:

[root@Koen-NET ~]# dmesg | grep error
[    0.152215] ACPI: Marking method _OSC as Serialized because of AE_ALREADY_EXISTS error
[   23.862432] dbus[649]: avc:  netlink poll: error 4
[   23.876539] dbus[649]: avc:  netlink poll: error 4

Code:

[root@Koen-NET ~]# dmesg | grep invalid
[    2.606222] ACPI Warning: _BQC returned an invalid level (20110413/video-473)

bbfuller · #8 16th August 2011, 08:33 PM

Hello Ditzy

I don't think any of those messages have anything to do with wireless.

If your laptop connects without encryption, have you tried changing the encryption key to spmething really simple to see if there is some character in the key that is not valid?

Try:

Code:

123456789

if you can.

Ditzy · #9 16th August 2011, 08:56 PM

did not try that yet, altough the key i use are 7 numbers and 3 letters non caps.
But i will try to do like you say.
Ill get back when tested.

---------- Post added at 09:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:37 PM ----------

strange, with 123456789 it works.
(my old key isnt 7 numbers and 3 letters by the way it was 18 letters and numbers combined (the 7numbers 3 letters was the old one)

Or is it because 18 signs is to large?

bbfuller · #10 16th August 2011, 09:11 PM

Hello Ditzy

I didn't think that many characters was to large for WPA. Mine is 26 characters.

Could you be using any accented characters?

I'd also try something now as a mixture of letters and numbers.

Say:

Code:

1a2p3i4y5c

and maybe:

Code:

useful place fedora forum

Ditzy · #11 16th August 2011, 09:16 PM

no idea what the reason can be.
I changed the key to a combinatin of letters and numbers again but not as much as 18 (only 10) and now it works.

for my part this problem is solved

thank you verry much for the help (neven would have tought of it myself to change it to something else)