Getting Online in Fedora Core 6
I just did a clean install of FC6 on a newly built machine and I'm trying to get online but have so far met with little success. I am running the x86_64 version and kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6. My ONLY way to get online is over a wireless network, I do not have an accessible wired network. I have a working Mac/Windows Boot Camp laptop that is online. I bought a Wireless USB adapter with the Ralink RT73 chipset and need to get it working. Problem is, all the instructions I find talk about using yum or give instructions that assume that I know a lot about working in the terminal. I would really appreciate instructions that actually tell me what to type to make this work. I can follow directions just assume I know nothing about command lines, I've lived in the GUI my entire life.
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Perhaps if you posted the instructions you don't understand or a link to those instructions ... If posible, tell us what you find confusing.
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Here are the instructions I tried to follow
* plug in the hardware and verify that the system recognizes it. “dmesg” * get the specific hardware details with “/sbin/lsusb,” it should look something like this” o lsusb + Bus 005 Device 002: ID 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. * from the above command we can see that it’s a Ralink 2573 model adapter, as we allready know we’re dealing with this chip set integrated on a USB adapter. We are very much in luck because Ralink releases a lot of there code and is a friend to the Open Source community. * Next we can get the most supported and full featured version of the Ralink driver at http://rt2×00.serialmonkey.com/. While we can also get a version of the driver directly from Ralink however there have been reports of instability. * Make sure that you download the 73 version of the driver. o http://rt2×00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz * as with most, extract the driver, configure it and install it o tar xvf rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz o cd rt73.x.x o ./configure o make o make install + optinally you can do a “make install-fedora” however it can sometimes cause other issues * next insert the module o first copy the newly created module to the proper directory + cp rt73.ko lib/modules/{kernelrev}/drivers/net/Wireless o now activate the module + /sbin/modprobe rt73 * and that’s it, you should now be able to test you’re newly installed wireless adapter. o /sbin/iwconfig + This lists the available wireless adapters, you should see something like rausb0 listed o /sbin/iwlist rausb0 scan + Does a simple scan of the environment looking for AP’s broadcasting an essid o If you would like to test kismet with the adapter + yum -y install kismet + /sbin/iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor + kismet -c rt2500,rausb0,kismet now when I cd to the uncompressed folder and type ./configure it gives me an error message. then I have no idea what this means when it says "make make install" what exactly do I type. then what does insert the module mean and what is the proper directory to copy the newly created module to. what does the line "+ cp rt73.ko lib/modules/{kernelrev}/drivers/net/Wireless" mean and also how do I "activate the module". if someone could just add some detail to these instructions, tell me what to type? |
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ls /lib/modules So if (for example) uname -r returned 2.6.17-3, you would type: Code:
cp rt73.ko lib/modules/2.6.17-3/drivers/net/Wireless Quote:
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/sbin/modprobe rt73 But first, you must get the ./configure step to work, so please post the error message that that is giving you. |
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