Hello,

Complete noob for Fedora. Need to set up the wireless on a family member's computer that has Fedora 14 installed, with LXDE. lsusb shows that the device (described in title) is detected, and that is about as far as I get. There does not appear to be any wireless controller installed, as there is no "enable wireless" option on the network connection icon (right click).

Now, some time ago I had a similar problem with Ubuntu 10.04, but solved it by downloading an rt2870 driver source, making and installing it. It also involved blaclisting rt2800usb in blacklist.conf, which I did also for this fedora installation.

I also notice that in /lib/firmware there appears to be an rt2870 binary already. the problem seems to be the lack of an interface for configuring the wireless network itself. Now, being a Debian XFCE user normally, I toyed with installing the Fedora(14) version of Wicd, but I am plauged with doubts, now.

Any ideas what I can do, please? As minimal as possible would be good, and would appreciate also a guide on configuring the thing manually, as in what do I download and install and what files would I have to edit to get this device working properly?

Thanks in advance...

first thing
fedora 14 is DEAD

it is past it's END OF LIFE . There is and never will be any support for it
do not use it !!!

install fedora 16

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John VV,

Best advice, thanks. Worked great, F16 LXDE, out of the box, up and running.