[SOLVED] cannot get wireless running on netbook

[Ditzy]

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]

Hello Ditzy

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

[Ditzy]

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]

Hello Ditzy

I'd suggest that you run the commands:

lspci

or

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.

[Ditzy]

will do
thx

[Ditzy]

Bbfuller asked me to make a new topic for this (i was kinda hijacking someone elses topic i think, for witch i am sorry)

Problem:
My netbook finds the wireless network and when i try to connect it keeps asking for the password.
I changed all the securitysettings from the wireless (wep, wpa,...) but never was i able to connect with the fedora wireless. (with windows it worked fine, but i dont want windows anymore)

Bbfuller asked the lspci output and the lsusb output so here it is:

[koen@Koen-NET ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller

[koen@Koen-NET ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:c33f Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.

thx for helping

---------- Post added at 07:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:50 PM ----------

Originally Posted by bbfuller

Hello again Ditzy

I'm going to hijack a thread now!

I don't want to give the impression I'm looking at your wireless problem because I want to encourage anyone else to do that. I don't have any experience with that particular card.

However, I notice you are in Europe too and in Europe we get to use channels 12 and 13 for our wireless.

A lot of the rest of the world doesn't and sometimes the Linux wireless drivers don't work with them. Might be something to check.

Does the wireless work with no encryption whatever?

When i take the security of the wireless it works without a problem.
But we have bandwidth to consider here so taking of the security of the connection is like saying goodbye to the bandwidth (unfortunately Belgium still runs behind the rest of Europe and we have download limits here )

[leigh123linux]

Posts merged.

[Ditzy]

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]

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.

[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

[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

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

[bbfuller]

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:

123456789

if you can.

[Ditzy]

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]

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:

1a2p3i4y5c

and maybe:

useful place fedora forum

[Ditzy]

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)