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Unfortunately for me, wpa_supplicant is not able to associate.<br>I have compiled the ralink driver to have the values<br><br>HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y<br>and<br>HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y<br>according to their README_STA file.<br><br>wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ira0 -Dwext -f /var/log/...etc<br><br>is unable to associate.<br><br>In fact it is unable to associate no matter what combinations<br>I compile the driver as far as the 2 definitions above are<br>concerned.<br><br>I sent email to <a href="mailto:FAE@ralinktech.com.tw">FAE@ralinktech.com</a><br>and still no reply. I will not hold my breath for these guys to respond.<br><br>So, I guess, I will have to look around for a mini-pci card that supports <br>801.11 N Draft 2, AND is supported by a released fedora driver.<br><br>If anyone can make a suggestion which mini-pci card will meet this<br>requirement, I would be greatful.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>MK<br><br><br>> From: frank@chagford.com<br>> To: fedora-list@redhat.com<br>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:44:22 +0200<br>> Subject: RE: Wireless networking - should I install Ralink driver? Solved<br>> <br>> Frank Millman wrote:<br>> > <br>> > Kevin Kofler wrote:<br>> > > <br>> > > Frank Millman wrote:<br>> > > > My next step was going to be to install the Ralink driver <br>> > > downloaded from<br>> > > > their site, but I thought I would check here first to see <br>> > > if there are any<br>> > > > other suggestions.<br>> > > <br>> > > The driver from the Ralink site is legacy, I'm not even sure <br>> > > they still<br>> > > update it at all, given that the rewritten driver from the <br>> > > rt2x00 project<br>> > > (which is what you're getting by default) is now in the <br>> > kernel itself.<br>> > > <br>> > <br>> > Thanks for the info, Kevin. I am glad I checked here first.<br>> > <br>> > Does anyone have any other suggestions? To recap, here is the <br>> > problem again.<br>> > <br>> > On startup, the card does not always initialise first time. <br>> > It appears to<br>> > bring up wlan0 successfully, and it appears to<br>> > start wpa_supplicant successfully. However, the next step is <br>> > to mount an NFS<br>> > share. Sometimes it works first time, but usually it sits <br>> > there for a while<br>> > and then fails. If I then check iwconfig, it shows no Access <br>> > Points, and 0<br>> > for Link Quality. I then run 'service network restart' and 'service<br>> > wpa_supplicant restart' a couple of times, and it usually <br>> > comes up on the<br>> > second or third attempt.<br>> > <br>> <br>> I read a message from Markus Kesaromous, on a related topic, that happened<br>> to have the following line -<br>> <br>> "I set scan_ssid=1 [in wpa_supplicant.conf] because my router does not<br>> broadcast the ssid."<br>> <br>> I have the same situation, so I have added that line to my .conf file, and<br>> it seems to have solved the problem.<br>> <br>> Thanks, Markus ;-)<br>> <br>> Frank<br>> <br>> -- <br>> fedora-list mailing list<br>> fedora-list@redhat.com<br>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list<br>> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines<br><br /><hr />Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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