Asus 900 EEEPC can't connect to access point

[Matteo Riva]

I have installed a Lenny system on an Asus EEEPC 900 and I have some
problems with the wireless connection.  It works with a Linksys router,
but I have to manually configure IP and DNS, it doesn't seem to talk to
the DHCP.

With another router (TP-Link TL-WR541G) I get this error:

  Connection failed: Could not contact the wireless access point

Configuring the net manually (as per the other router) isn't a problem,
but with this no change I make to the configuration seems to have any
effect.

Any help very much appreciated, thanks


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[Alexey Salmin]

Did you try reading these manuals?
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UseUpstreamAtherosModules

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin@...> wrote:

> I have installed a Lenny system on an Asus EEEPC 900 and I have some
> problems with the wireless connection.  It works with a Linksys router,
> but I have to manually configure IP and DNS, it doesn't seem to talk to
> the DHCP.
>
> With another router (TP-Link TL-WR541G) I get this error:
>
>  Connection failed: Could not contact the wireless access point
>
> Configuring the net manually (as per the other router) isn't a problem,
> but with this no change I make to the configuration seems to have any
> effect.
>
> Any help very much appreciated, thanks
>
>
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[Alexey Salmin]

Actually I have 901 (ralink) myselft and thus I'm not sure the way
things work for 900.
try "lsmod | grep ath" to see whether the ath5k module is loaded.
google also says that it may help to purge the madwifi driver:
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/debian-user@.../12709624.html

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin@...> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@...> wrote:
>> Did you try reading these manuals?
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UseUpstreamAtherosModules
>
> Thanks for the pointers, I installed a new 2.6.30 kernel from backports,
> but I don't know how to enable the ath5k module.  The chipset appears in
> dmesg but no wlan interface is present.  Do I have to enable any
> particular module or tweak any other setting?
>
> Thanks
>

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[Matteo Riva]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Alexey Salmin <alexey.salmin@...> wrote:
> Actually I have 901 (ralink) myselft and thus I'm not sure the way
> things work for 900.
> try "lsmod | grep ath" to see whether the ath5k module is loaded.
> google also says that it may help to purge the madwifi driver:
> http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/debian-user@.../12709624.html

I purged madwifi, modprobe'd ath5k (working), changed ath0 to wlan0 in
wicd settings... but I still get the same behavior: unabel to get IP
address via DHCP, can't contact the access point with manual IP/DNS
settings.

P.S. reposted to list due to misclick on reply


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[celejar]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:38:15 +0100
Matteo Riva <muradin@...> wrote:

> I have installed a Lenny system on an Asus EEEPC 900 and I have some
> problems with the wireless connection.  It works with a Linksys router,
> but I have to manually configure IP and DNS, it doesn't seem to talk to
> the DHCP.
>
> With another router (TP-Link TL-WR541G) I get this error:
>
>   Connection failed: Could not contact the wireless access point

Is this a wicd message?  For troubleshooting, it's better to work with
command line tools and the logfiles.

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[Matteo Riva]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Celejar <celejar@...> wrote:
>>   Connection failed: Could not contact the wireless access point
>
> Is this a wicd message?  For troubleshooting, it's better to work with
> command line tools and the logfiles.

Yes, it is wicd, I'll try from commandline.

The weird thing is that now I'm back at home with my Linksys and the
eeepc immediately connected via DHCP with no problems at all.  Could it
be an incompatibility with the TP-Link?  It's quite a crappy router, but
it works fine with my HP 6830s with a debian squeeze.


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