Main obstacle migrating to Arch: netcfg2 wireless using ralink drivers

Dlink DWL-G122  rev:B1 usb wireless card (ralink chipset)   --> rt2500usb,rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib modules loaded on boot
Arch will connect to my network on boot; I am assigned a proper ip from the router but I can't ping anything (router, other windows box on network, google) or use pacman. If I take down the network and try to bring it back up again I get:
:: wep up [BUSY]
DHCP IP lease attempt failed [FAIL]
I can get a connection using the windows driver and ndiswrapper but the connection is very unstable ( the same driver is running fine using ndiswrapper on Ubuntu). In any case I'd much rather run a kernel supported native driver. Below are my config files. Can anyone provide some insight? Many thanks,
/etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Canada/Pacific"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!ndiswrapper !ndiswrapper-utils e100 mii via-rhine rt2500usb
rt2x00lib rt2x00usb
snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)
USELVM="no"
HOSTNAME="jdesk"
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(!eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
NETWORKS=(wep)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond net-profiles)
/etc/network.d/wep
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection"
INTERFACE=wlan0
SCAN="yes"
TIMEOUT="50"
SECURITY="wep"
ESSID="Rhodes"
KEY="s:mykey"
IP="dhcp"

Could be a recent kernel bug
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 41#p440841
There's a workaround, and the update should hit the repos fairly quickly.
Last edited by iphitus (2008-10-27 09:16:10)

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