Re: rt2860 and Fedora 12 x64?

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On 03/15/2010 09:22 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> I've installed a wireless nic that is rt2860 based.  I've downloaded,
> compiled, and installed the latest rt2860koa "driver" on my Fedora 12
> x64 machine.  It loads (lsmod shows it), lspci shows that the RealTek
> nic is using the driver, but I can't get it to connect to my wireless
> AP.  I can set the ssid but wpa_supplicant never connects (trying this
> at the command line with "wpa_supplicant -ira0 -Dwext -dd -K -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" ).  I notice that there's a
> wpa_supplicant running as a daemon but every time I kill it it respawns
> (I assume dbus is doing this but I can't figure out how to stop dbus
> from doing this).  I don't know if that's part of the problem or not. 
> This is *very* annoying as the d*mn card works find under Windows 7 (of
> course) but not under F12.  
> 
> What I've done is:
> 
> iwconfig ra0 essid "sidname"
> wpa_supplicant -ira0 -Dwext -dd -K -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> dhclient ra0
> 
> I've tried configuring the wpa_supplicant.conf file with the psk in
> cleartext and hex and the same goes for the
> /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat file.
> 
> *Once*, just *once*, I had this actually connected but have no idea how
> it did it. 
> 
> FWIW, the kernel is the 2.6.32.9-70 version.
> 
> Any help, thoughts, or prayers appreciated.

I'm using kmod-rt2860 (i686-PAE) from rpmfusion-nonfree and everything is fine.

Andrew.
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