On 09/17/2011 02:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > OK my dongle arrived in the post today - so this evening I thought I > would try it out - after plugging it in, and firing up f16 it works > out of the box - hooray! I don't have an earlier Fedora for that > laptop to test f14 with the same wifi dongle. > > So my suspicions were indeed correct - the module that is loaded is > rt2800usb - which supports the chipset I listed earlier that seems to > be in my device. > > Since it would seem from the earlier posts that yours "should" work > with the same kernel module then in principle there is a good chance > it would work out of the box under f16. Thanks Mike! That's good to know for the future. > However I don't know what the state of support in the earlier kernels > was for this same chipset - even if it appears not to work in f14 > there is a "reasonable" chance that it will if/when you upgrade to > f16.... unless someone running f16 has the same device that you have > and can plug in and test it? I've got an F15 desktop here, I suppose I could try it in that (just to see if/how it gets recognized). F15 is running 2.6.40, which is (in effect) a 3.0 kernel. Yeup! Comes up running on F15 as wlan0 using the rt2800usb driver (et al, the rt2x00 driver as well). I was able to get it to connect to my home wireless. Now to just figure out why it won't on F14! Maybe I can run the F15 kernel on F14???? I'm not looking forward to the F15 upgrade on my laptop given that I'm a gnome user.... > I hope this helps even if it is indirect. It at least gives me hope for the future. -- 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
