[How-To] Enable Wireless

[Roberto48]

Hi,

problem solved.... pacman -Syu did it all...
Rob

[erkerb]

Roberto, let me know if you can get the wifi working..

[Roberto48]

Hi erkerb,

unfortunately not... I did some changes today and now I don't have either LAN or WLAN. On the forum are so many suggestions how to setup WiFi that it is not easy for me to pick the right one out of it. I'm not a Linux expert!
But I will keep trying.

Rob

[Roberto48]

[quote="ckiick"]How to get wireless (and optionally wired) connection to work with netcfg.

Hi ckiick,

I placed the driver in the right folder but when I run depmod -a I get error: ......._SMP_820/modules.builtin: no such file or directory

What can be wrong?
Rob

1) Get the right driver.
Big thanks to takbal for the new driver.
Download the driver from http://www.2shared.com/file/sb6mQzaA/rt3390_WPA.html unzip it and copy the rt3390sta.ko.gz file to
/usr/lib/modules/2.6.31.6_SMP_820/kernel/drivers/net/wireless. Then "rmmod rt3390sta; depmod -a; modprobe rt3390sta".

[WarheadsSE]

There is nothing "wrong" there, it will work just fine.

[ckiick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roberto48', '
')Hi ckiick,

I placed the driver in the right folder but when I run depmod -a I get error: ......._SMP_820/modules.builtin: no such file or directory

What can be wrong?
Rob

[Roberto48]

lsmod gives me: rt3390sta size: 901992 Used by: 0 (this should be 1?)

When I run netcfg wireless I have got the same output as you (nl80211 generic netlink not found, Failed to initialize driver nl80211 and Cannot open RFKILL control device)

[Geoff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roberto48', 'W')hen I run netcfg wireless I have got the same output as you (nl80211 generic netlink not found, Failed to initialize driver nl80211 and Cannot open RFKILL control device)

[ckiick]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roberto48', 'l')smod gives me: rt3390sta size: 901992 Used by: 0 (this should be 1?)

When I run netcfg wireless I have got the same output as you (nl80211 generic netlink not found, Failed to initialize driver nl80211 and Cannot open RFKILL control device)

[Roberto48]

I'm not succeeded in bringing up the wireless mode.
For me it is not clear to do what in which conf file... I think that it is because there are two (or more) different configuration methods which are described through each other in the forum. For a beginner, as I am, it's a bit confusing.
For example: do I have to use wpa_supplicant yes or no. When I run netcfg wireless I have got the message that wpa_supplicant did not start, possible configuration error, but where can I find this configuration (file).
I'm a bit hopeless.... maybe someone can explain the different methods, so I understand what i'm doing and better, how it works.
Thanks in advance.
Rob