On 09/16/2011 05:20 AM, mike cloaked 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! Here's the link to my dongle's product info: > http://www.ralink.tw/download.php?t=U0wyRnpjMlYwY3k4eU1ERXhMekEzTHpFeEwzQnliMlIxWTNRMU5qTTVNekEyT1RjMUxuQmtaajA5UFZKVU5UTTNNRjl3Y205a2RXTjBYMkp5YVdWbUM%3D [snip] > 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? No, I have not. How would I know if there is support for my dongle (or not)? > I will post more once I get my device and tinker with it. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- 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
