[How-To] Enable Wireless

[takbal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sethjvm', 'N')ot sure what that means other than it is not finding any external networks.

[radtech]

dmesg shows occasional exceptions on both plugs but nothing is consistent there. They'll both boot most of the time without any exceptions.

iwlist ra0 scanning returns nothing on the plug that isn't working with arch. I have three wireless networks all broadcasting their SSID's, two secured and one completely open. Can't see or connect to any of them with arch. Revert to pogo... works perfectly with any of them. Damned odd.

When I can take the other plug out of service for a while again I'll do some more testing.

[takbal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radtech', '
')iwlist ra0 scanning returns nothing on the plug that isn't working with arch

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('takbal', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radtech', '
')iwlist ra0 scanning returns nothing on the plug that isn't working with arch

[tassheloff]

Same problem for me too..... tried to eliminate WEP key, tried with WICD, tried with iwlist but always same problem.... ra0 UP but no SSID founded!

[bodhi]

@radtech,
Have you compared the 2 routing tables (.i.e. is the gateway the same?) between the working plug and one that does not?

[radtech]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bodhi', '@')radtech,
Have you compared the 2 routing tables (.i.e. is the gateway the same?) between the working plug and one that does not?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radtech', 'F')rom the plug side it just looks like there is no network and from the router side it just doesn't ever see the plug make a connection attempt.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('takbal', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('radtech', 'F')rom the plug side it just looks like there is no network and from the router side it just doesn't ever see the plug make a connection attempt.

[takbal]

Mine looks like:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
ra0 Ralink STA ESSID:"Macinet" Nickname:"RT2860STA"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: A0:21:B7:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX [2]
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-46 dBm Noise level:-70 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
')
If you are using exactly the same software on two pieces of the supposedly same hardware, and one works and the other does not, then indeed something weird is going on. But you are lucky at least to have a working example available.

The most obvious potential reason is that you have unintentionally flashed different kernels on each device (and a wrong one in the non-working case), or have something important difference on the internal drives. Try re-flashing, or comparing the dump of the NAND drives. Compare /usr/local/cloudengines/bin/blparam output on the two devices.

I would also make sure that the same external drive is plugged in the same slot without other drives. A different setup of USB devices may change the memory layout. Then (as recommended by bodhi earlier), a comparative analysis in the system logs may show something: for example, where does dmesg start to differ?

If still nothing comes up, you can try comparing reports in /proc, like iomem, meminfo, bus/pci/devices.