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I was thinking that the problem might have something to do with my WEP encryption, so I sat down to try one more time... I set about to test disabling the encryption entirely, when my 11-year-old son sitting next to me wondered aloud if the MAC address on my adapter was causing the problem (I know -- pretty scary, huh??!) Anyway, it turns out he was correct, I had MAC filtering active on my AP, so once I added the new address my laptop took off like a rocket! Now all I have to worry about is what fee I'm going to have to pay my live-in consultant, I haven't a clue what that's going to come to!

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Hello All,

I'm just about at my wit's end trying to get my wireless working. I have a Hawking HWUG1, a USB device which requires the rt73 driver, and I'm trying to get this to work on my Toshiba Satellite. I'm running Debian 2.6.18-4-686. I downloaded rt73-cvs-2008041913 and built and installed the module with no incidents. I followed the README to the letter, and everything seems to go fine from loading the module to configuration of the wlan0 interface. But when I try to actually ping something I get nowhere. Trying to ping another machine on my local network produces the "Destination Host Unreachable" message, while trying to ping outside the local network produces "unknown host" messages. Yet the LED on the USB adapter blinks.

My network setup is using a wired Linksys DSL router, and I have a wireless AP connected to that. All my machines have static IPs, including the Toshiba. I can see that the rt73 driver is loaded, along with firmware_class. I've tried manually configuring wlan0 exactly as described in the README in the cvs tarball, and also I've tried using /etc/network/interfaces, but neither seems to work. Oh, I also blacklisted ath_pci, ath_rate_sample and ath_hal so that the Atheros drivers wouldn't be loaded (the Toshiba has wireless capability built-in).



Here's how I configured the wlan0 interface:

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iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid "simon"
iwconfig wlan0 ap "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"
iwconfig wlan0 key open
iwconfig wlan0 key "XXXXXXXXXX"
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iwconfig wlan0 produces this:

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root@satellite:~/Wireless/rt73-cvs-2008041913# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:"simon"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:<my 10-digit key>
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise level:-115 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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ifconfig produces this:

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root@satellite:~/Wireless/rt73-cvs-2008041913# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11390 (11.1 KiB) TX bytes:11390 (11.1 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:3B:0E:1A:08
inet addr:192.168.1.106 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:3bff:fe0e:1a08/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:35398 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2751408 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:244002 (238.2 KiB)
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Any ideas? I'm all ears! Thanks very much in advance!