On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > By the way my device is http://www.edimax.com/en/support_detail.php?pd_id=366&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44 with the drivers listed at http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Edimax_EW-7722UTn I am hoping that there may be a driver already in the newer kernels that may work - but if necessary I will try to compile the driver from source.... it is an interesting game trying to get these usb wifi adapters going! -- 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
