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PhiJ
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:56 am Post subject: Can't access internet on Netgear A6210 [SOLVED] |
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I bought an A6210 AC1200 WiFi USB adaptor from Netgear a few days ago, and I can't get it working.
It has an MT7612U chipset, and I can find two possible drivers/firmware on github.
This is the first. Installing it gives me a wlan0 device.
This is the second. Installing it makes no obvious changes to ifconfig -a. (so if I install just this one, I don't have a wlan0 device).
Next, I followed the networking guide for WPA supplicant. I have tried both modules and neither work. Example below:
| Code: | modules="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-mt7662u_sta"
config_eth0="dhcp" |
For the config file I copied the example conf (from unzipped /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant-2.6-r1/wpa_supplicant.conf.bz2), commented out all network blocks, and added
| Code: | network={
ssid="<NETWORK NAME>"
psk="<SUPER SECRET PASSWORD>"
priority=5
} |
That's all I know to try. But after booting, I can do the following, which isn't exactly what I'm looking for.
| Code: | Jon's Desktop ~ # ifconfig wlan0 up
Jon's Desktop ~ # dhcpcd wlan0
DUID 00:01:00:01:20:f4:df:46:30:9c:23:09:e3:a1
wlan0: IAID cf:e8:63:37
wlan0: soliciting an IPv6 router
wlan0: soliciting a DHCP lease
wlan0: probing for an IPv4LL address
wlan0: using IPv4LL address 169.254.81.162
wlan0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16
wlan0: adding default route
forked to background, child pid 3291
Jon's Desktop ~ # ping google.co.uk
ping: unknown host google.co.uk |
Any ideas?
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charles17
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| PhiJ wrote: | | Code: |
wlan0: adding route to 169.254.0.0/16
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That's known as link-local-address
For wpa_supplicant, see this wiki article. |
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PhiJ
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:11 am Post subject: |
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I found the wpa_cli through the wpa_supplicant wiki link, and that helped me find the problem (embarrassingly, wrong password).
Thanks for the hints. |
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