Ubuntu Networking :: Realtek (RTL8187L) USB Not Setting Up Routes, Causing DHCP Step To Fail?
May 1, 2010
I bought an RTL8187L USB wireless adapter, and have had trouble getting it to work. I have managed to get it to work via manually configuringtime, but lost that configuration, and now it is once again not workingThe root issue appears to be (if I'm understanding correctly what I'm seeing) that when I connect, routes don't get setup properly, so when network manager (or WICD, which I've also tried) get to the DHCP step, my wireless router can't be reached by dhclient.
This is on Ubuntu 9.10, and I'm using the updated driver from realtek.com, btw, though the in-kernel driver was exhibiting the same behavior.So, two questions:- Is anyone familiar with this problem, and is there a fix available?- I believe I can work around it by setting up routes manually (e.g. with a post-connect script in WICD), but after staring at the "route" manpage, I'm not 100% sure of the commands. My router (a FIOS MI424WR) is my DHCP server, and is at 192.168.1.1, and route -n on a working PC (wired connection) gives:
Code:
dave@MinasTirith:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
[code]....
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Jul 18, 2010
New ubuntu desktop user here. I've been working with Ubuntu servers for over 3 yrs, using Windows as clients. I have OpenVPN running on an ubuntu 10.04 server, and it has worked well with Windows OpenVPN clients connecting. I took those same settings and applied them to this new install of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, and now openvpn seems to be failing when we get to the routes (I wrestled with the network-manager "secrets" issue for hours, but that works now).
I performed the following:
sudo openvpn --config fogbank-ny1.ovpn
--all is well, we're connecting/yay then *screech* FAIL--
Code:
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0,redirect-gateway def1,dhcp-option DNS 10.8.0.1,route 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0,topology net30,ping 30,ping-restart 600,ifconfig 10.8.0.10 10.8.0.9'
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 ROUTE default_gateway=192.168.10.1
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.8.0.10 pointopoint 10.8.0.9 mtu 1500
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/route add -net <mypublicip> netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 192.168.10.1
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 128.0.0.0 gw 10.8.0.9
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/route add -net 128.0.0.0 netmask 128.0.0.0 gw 10.8.0.9
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.8.0.9
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 /sbin/route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.8.0.9
SIOCADDRT: File exists
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 7
Sun Jul 18 07:17:14 2010 Initialization Sequence Completed
I am using the suggested openvpn routes. If I connect from Windows (actually the .ovpn file is taken directly from the working windows machine).. all is well, routes work fine all traffic is routed thru the VPN -- same way it's worked for over a yar. I assume that this is what is causing networkmanager to fail as well. those logs indicate that it has connected to the vpn, but is probably stopping when it gets to routes.
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At about a month, when i was starting my first steps to config my machine, I tried to follow [URL] three times, and in two of those I manage to start my wireless, but in all it mixed up with my pppoe connection and since either pppoe-config as pppoe-setup didn't work after that (even after backup the files) I had to reinstall the whole system. (Yes, I know that probably there is an workaround easier via shell or file editing, but since every time I need to restart in the Windows, search for solution on internet, print those I find, restart, and try in slackware again, I decided that reinstalling was the fast solution for me at that time.)Now, I am a bit more confident with my knowledge of the linux and decided to try to setup wireless again.
After an extensive search in the forum, I found out two major solutions: One pointing to alienwiki (with I really think is the best approach besides my previous experience) and other pointing to the proper realtek driver at [URL]As i am yet trying to decide which method use, I download the driver and it came with an strange file (RadioPower.sh) that are called by wlan0up. Below are both files:
wlan0up:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
SYSTEM=`uname -r|cut -d. -f1,2`
if [ $SYSTEM = 2.4 ]
then
cd ieee80211
[code].....
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[Code]...
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