On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost. Doesn't matter what card I put > in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there. > > So, I bought one of those "new" $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port. > Surprisingly small! 802.11n capable as well! > > The problem? It appears in the lsusb list: > >> Bus 001 Device 007: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. > > But, nothing appears as a Wifi Device. > > One Wifi email list suggested that it would be supported by the rt2x00 > driver, but modprobing that driver does not recognize the device. > > The RaLink site has 2 drivers that *should* support it: rt2870usb and > rt2870sta. > > I found that RPMFusion packages version 2.4.0 of the rt2870 driver, but > there is no entry for the 148f:5370, so no network device gets created. > Not even when I add an entry for it to: > /lib/modules/2.6.25.14-96.fc14.x86_64/modules.usbmap > > The final step I tried was to download the 2.5.0.2 driver from RaLink, > and build it locally. It builds, but it doesn't build an installable > kernel module: > >> # insmod rt5370sta.ko >> insmod: error inserting 'rt5370sta.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module > > Anyone have one of these running in their system yet? > > I'm looking forward to seeing an ra0 device that I can use as my wifi > connection! I have on order one of the small wifi adapters which I believe should work with the rt2870usb also - and I will be very interested to hear of any progress - the reason I ordered the new one was that I have a device that was working fine with the realtek rtl8712SU driver but I cannot compile the driver with the 3.1 kernel as there are compile errors - and I want to test a laptop that needs this running f16 pre beta - there is supposed to be a suitable driver in kmod staging for the latter but kmod staging for f16 is not yet available. So I thought I would try the rt2870 device and I will fiddle with it properly once it arrives in the coming days. I see you are using f14 - have you tried installing kmod-staging from rpmfusion to see if there is a driver there? I will post more once I get my device and tinker with it. -- mike c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
