wifi joins but can't DHCP

[donn]

Wifi configuration appears to semi-successfully negotiate with router, but then can't get DHCP addresses. Manual addresses don't help (static in Network Preferences, or manually via "route add"), so I suppose the problem is deeper, but DHCP is the first thing that clearly fails.

Platform is ASUS Eee PC 1000HE --- device Network controller [2|80|0]

vendor 1814: Ralink corp. device 0781: RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe

Router is Buffalo Airstation Turbo G High Power. I notice that conversation ends with something about media change involving speed. Network Preferences shows speed at 100 Mb/s. Can't see what the MacOS X hosts set their speed to, with this router.

[donn]

syslog

[pulkomandy]

Media speed in the network preferences always shows 100 Mb/s for everything, the feature isn't implemented and this is just a placeholder string.

[donn]

I took the laptop out to a place within range of several open networks, and I think confirmed my suspicion that it doesn't really have much to do with DHCP. Sometimes it timed out in DHCP like this, others it went straight through that and got reasonable addresses, other times it got stuck in a loop of asking for a password (with the dialogue box indicating "Open".) In no case did it ever produce a usable network connection.

[gchauvet]

Same issue with my ASUS EEE-PC 1001HA. My DHCP syslog output is identical to the reporter.

[waddlesplash]

Dup of #12208?

[donn]

It's hard to check anything, since I replaced the offending RT2790 card, but I'd say no. For one thing, I tried manual static addresses, no joy. For another, in some cases DHCP appeared to work. See comment 3.

[diver]

Might be fixed in hrev49477.

[-Meanwhile-]

I have an Asus EeePC 901 with the same Ralink that can't join any wireless network. It shows 'Symbol Not Found' for WPA2 and gets stuck 'configuring' for open networks. Tested on hrev52040.

[diver]

'Symbol Not Found' message is odd. Does it say which symbol it is? Can reproduce this error message and look in syslog file for anything relevant?

[-Meanwhile-]

Syslog for EeePC 901

[-Meanwhile-]

It doesn't say which symbol. I hope there's something relevant in the syslog (I wouldn't know...).

[diver]

Like I expected you have an old binary in /boot/common/bin/

[-Meanwhile-]

What can be done? I just wiped the HD clean and installed hrev52039 on it, but that didn't work. It shows as 'connected (---)' in Network preferences (it's configuring). The more recent hrev52039 gave a KDL after the fourth icon lit up saying no boot partitions found, while 52039 installed on it without problems, time for another ticket...

[diver]

I wiped the HD clean and put an older hrev50162 on it but to no avail

What do you mean? Did the 'Symbol Not Found' message go away on hrev50162 after you wiped your HD? You're not supposed to have /boot/common anyway.

[-Meanwhile-]

I meant 'to no avail' in the sense that hrev50162 also didn't give me working wifi, but the 'symbol not found' alert is now gone. The symptoms with this revision are pretty much as explained in the comments of ticket #11013. And boot/common is also gone now.

[waddlesplash]

Please retest under a recent nightly.

[waddlesplash]

No reply in 2 months, and probably fixed after WiFi changes or hrev53000.

[nielx]

Assign tickets with status=closed and resolution=fixed within the R1/beta2 development window to the R1/beta2 Milestone