Knetwork Manager with rt2500
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I've got an Edimax EW-7108PCg PCMCIA card in my laptop, which has the rt2500 chipset. Using MEPIS 6.5 I can get it working fine (using WEP encryption) in Manual mode, but can't get it to connect with knetworkmanager -- the manager sees the network (and indeed my neighbours' network) but won't connect. I had this problem in Ubuntu 7.04 and solved it by blacklisting the Linux driver and using ndiswrapper instead, but as far as I can tell, MEPIS is using ndiswrapper by default anyway. Any ideas on things to try would be gratefully received.
Thanks for that. I did
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Thanks for that. I did everything it said, but no luck. The funny thing is, it says to disable ndiswrapper and use the native driver, which is the opposite of what got it working in Ubuntu! Well, it works in manual mode, guess I'll just have to put up with it.
OK
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Because the two drivers are in conflict, you can stop the interference either way.
If you are looking for scanning ability, then you could download and use another frontend such as wlassistant or wifi-radar--see the Wiki on both.
The problem seems to be
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The problem seems to be (according to comments I've seen on Ubuntu forums, that the native Linux driver for rt2500 doesn't work with networkmanager due to a bug in networkmanager. Quite why I can't get it working with ndiswrapper, I don't know.
Thanks for wlassistant, though -- not quite as good, but does the job!
Did you check this Wiki page yet?
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http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Any_card_using_the_ralink_2500_chipset
Hope this helps.