2010/1/15 Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Does anyone know how to get a wireless RT2500 to work? > Have a co-worker that has an old P4 notebook that has this nic for wireless. > Long ago, I had gotten it working with a sourceforge driver, but when I > upgraded it to Fedora 11 that method wouldn't work. I just upgraded the > machine to Fedora 12, and I can get the machine to see wireless hubs, but it > always fails to get an IP. > > Tried the sourceforge info again, and it fails to build. > > Seems the RT2500 is now included in later kernels, but it doesn't connect > with the hub with the network manager, or system-config-network, or using > wlassistant. > This is a very long-standing bug in the driver, NetworkManager seems to be less tolerant than the old system-config approach and as a result often has trouble with DHCP: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457441 If you can configure your IP and DNS statically then it should work, but DHCP is going to be a problem. Which is a serious pain in a laptop. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
