Re: [SOLVED]--Re: centos 6 (what else? :) :)

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On 11/07/11 03:28, fred smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:01:14PM -0400, fred smith wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> My thanks to the Centos team for continuing to slave away on C6
>> even with all the distractions!!!
>>
>> Just did a test install on my eeepc 901 (on an external drive, til I'm
>> comfortable with it) and find that it doesn't seem to know how to talk
>> to the ralink 2860 wireless chipset.
>>
>> A few months back I did a test install of Scientific Linux 6 and as
>> I recall it (I may be mis-remembering) it "just worked".
>>
>> So I enabled EPEL and RPMFUSION but they don't seem to have the
>> driver either.
>>
>> Clues appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks again to all to work on this!
>
> Oh well. there's nothing like posting a question to have the question
> answer itself within about 2 minutes.
>
> Found what I need at elrepo.
>

Glad you got it working.

Yes, for the benefit of others, you needed to install the driver and 
associated firmware which are available from elrepo.org:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-rt2860sta
http://elrepo.org/tiki/rt2860-firmware

Hope that helps (others).

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