I have purchased a Realtek usb dongle. lsusb sees it as Obda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Modprobe shows the following modules loaded for it :rtl8192cu, rtlwifi, rtl8192c common,mac80211, cfg80211, usbcore. Much midnight oil has been burnt searching the web to get it going, without success. I see there have been other bug reports re this dongle. MCC does not set it up correctly. Networkmanager gnome is not installed ifup wlan0 says 'configured with a roaming daemon but isnt associated' and 'failed no link present' Can it be made to work in Mageia2? TIA Barry
iwlist scan is working ? >MCC does not set it up correctly. Networkmanager gnome is not installed this mean nothing and for networkmanager: urpmi networkmanager and then be sure that the NM_CONTROLLED in the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-yourcard is set to yes
I installed nm then rebooted. iwlist sees wlan0 but only immediately after each reboot. ifup wlan0 is skipped because nm is installed and then iwlist can not see the router. NM_CONTROLLED is set to yes. If iwlist can see the modem then it shows in Network Centre but will not connect. If I set NM_CONTROLLED to no then ifup wlan0 returns 'wlan0 is configured with a roaming daemon but is'nt associated' & 'no link present'
Go check out bug#2160. Just installing NM isn't enough if you're using KDE.
CC: (none) => ftg
reinstalled mageia2 + pkgs for wifi. checked bug#2164. I note it applies to caldron on a x86-64 but my problems are much the same. My system is Mageia 2 x86-32 running on a 64bit machine. 'iwlist scan' usually finds the link after a reboot but not after an attempt to connect using Network Center etc. dmesg gives msg 'ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): link is not ready" Is this unit known to work????? thanks Barry
It has problems with recent kernels. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866786
CC: (none) => samuel_ig
Related bug: bug#8754
ah thanks samuel *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8754 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE