On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Great that it works with the f15 kernel - if it is any help I had until recently been running an f15 kernel in another f14 laptop for quite a while with no problems (install all the f15 kernel related packages pulled as rpms from bodhi or koji eg kernel-PAE, kernel-PAE-devel, kernel-headers, perf ( and any other related rpms), in one yum [local]install possibly with --nogpgcheck if you have not got the f15 gpg keys in that machine) - then it should work. In fact for me it worked even better than the f14 kernel! Good luck Mike -- 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
