Ralink Wireless LAN card v2 not working in Fedora 7
I have recently installed Fedora 7 on the second partition of my Packard Bell EasyNote MZ36-U-001 (1,60 GHz, IntelŪ PentiumŪ dual-core Processor T2060, 533 MHz, 1 GB DDR2, 120 GB )
Two things I havent been able to fix: Not recognizing my Ralink Wireless LAN card v2 hardware (although it does recognize the Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) My Realtek HD audio isnt working at sll when I test it. Im not concerned about the audio as much as I am about my wireless connectivity. Can someone please guide me through what I need to do? I couldnt find a code for the Ralink Wireless LAN card v2. Other sites have things like "rt2400" devices but in windows I cant find anything like that. Any help would be great |
You need to find out what chipset the wireless card has (rt2400 is an example of one). After booting up the laptop, post the output of the command dmesg (must be run as root / superuser). There should be some info on the card there.
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Firstly this code repeats itself quite a bit
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hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff Code:
hda_codec: invalid dep_range_val 0:7fff |
ok it says its a "RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g"
Hopefully there is a driver out there for it... Its making me go crazy... I installed th RutilT WLAN Manager as well |
Yes there's a driver module out there - see http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads or http://web.ralinktech.com/ralink/Hom...ort/Linux.html
As a minimum I think you'll need the kernel-devel package matching your kernel. If you have problems with the installation you might be better off posting at the specific forum http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB...23f776fd6522b9 Maybe you could post back here if it all works, so other users can benefit. |
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aptitude install module-assistant build-essential m-a update m-a prepare m-a a-i rt2500 Then edit the /etc/network/interfaces file to add the entry for the wireless adapter.. It may be just as easy on your distro, but without knowing what you are running there is no easy way to tell. Have you looked at the how-to's section for distribution specific help ? http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/...p?title=HOWTOS |
please note, if I come across as annoyed or frustrated, it because this whole affair has been nothing but that
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right now as it happens I'm looking at an error message in Fedora telling me to enable IOMMU in my bios (nothing like that seems to be there). Of course I then can't do much with Fedora as while the installer seems to be happy with my system (well, it crashes if I ask it to detect my network card) and seems to display X, when booting it just leaves my screen black. I assume that its starting in some video mode that my system can't utilize. hmmm Quote:
if you think that's drop dead easy, why don't you try working with a windows platform some day? Over there I've found everything simply works, and if its not on the 'list' when installing then it gives me a "have disk" option to provide it and put it where it needs to go. Linux may be many things, but simple - straight forward - anyone can do it are not among the lists. 10 years later I'm finding that its still the nightmare of frustration that it ever was. |
Can't make sense of what exactly you are trying to put across, but you can save yourself headaches by buying Linux compatible hardware (just like you would do with Windows) if you want to save yourself frustration. I personally use ralink based wireless cards (the drivers are included in new kernels, so you don't need to install them on your own) and basic realtek or via rhine wired cards and things just work out of the box on most distros.
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if there is a wireless card that you can recommend will work please feel free to recommend it as quite frankly a server with no network card isn't much of a server. if on the other hand you (or anyone else) would be so kind as to make some suggestions on how to:
I would be more than grateful thanks in advance |
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after re-installing redhat (over my non usable fedora) I now find that when compiling things from the serialmonkey driver set, that stuff seems to be working better now. compile warnings: Code:
Building modules, stage 2. Code:
[root@localhost Module]# modprobe rt61 -- so I then installed ... Code:
[root@localhost Module]# make install Code:
[root@localhost Module]# modprobe rt61 Code:
[root@localhost Module]# ifconfig wlan0 up Code:
[root@localhost Module]# iwconfig wlan0 essid anitan this mac is connected but there is no DHCP request. I guess that this is enough for this thread, I'll perhaps transfer the further discussion of this to a more pertinent location |
Granted what I called simple, is only simple if you know the commands. as for working with Windows, yes that's what I do for a living. I find it relaxing and fun to work with a stable Linux platform after dealing with Windows issues all day.
I can take two identical PC's install Linux on one and have everything work immediately after the install with actual applications to use, install Windows on the other and have no sound, no network, crappy video, etc.. until I locate and manually install drivers for everything on the windows box, rebooting a dozen times or so. Yes if you are very familiar with windows it seems easier, but if you have no experience in either OS then I would say they are equally as difficult to use. Glad you finally got something working there on your wireless. |
Have you tried using NDISWrapper? that's how I got my RaLink RT2561/RT61 working in all my distros...
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Another route I'm trying now is to get openSUSE and see if that works. from now all follow up will be placed into this thread. Thanks everyone for suggestions and pointers so far. I really AM at a wits end on this one. |
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Here is the output of [root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.53]# make Code:
make -C driver Thanks anyway. |
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