Wireless-N USB Adapter-How to build the right driver-On Fedora 17 kernel:3.5.1-1.fc17
Hi I am currently running Fedora 17, kernel 3.5.1-1.fc17 and I need to build/install the driver for my wireless. The driver which came with the adapter is for kernel 2.6, and I asume that this is the cause for it not building with make.
I've tried to install both RT2870 and RT3070 which came with the wireless-adapter but neither will build. I havent found any postings to explain how I should do this. |
According to here, the drivers you are looking for are already in the kernel. Your card should work by default. If not, then you can try
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su -c 'modprobe rt2870' |
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sudo yum install *rt3070* Code:
~]$ lsusb I tried to build the rpms Code:
rpm -ivh /*/*/*/*rt2870*.rpm Code:
du -a /lib/modules/`uname -r`|grep 2860 Code:
su -c 'modprobe rt2870' Code:
su -c 'modprobe rt3070' |
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Hey man. It says that only rt2870usb will build in kernel version over 3.0, and I cant find it anywhere. Then that would be my only chance of using this hardware. I do remember seeing the rt2870usb somewhere so I'll do a search for it.
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Are you familiar with rebuilding a kernel? You can actually check if the module is built into your kernel by doing this:
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zcat /proc/config.gz | grep RT2800USB Alex Brinister |
No output. I'll look into what I can do with the kernel.
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I actually spelled /proc wrong in the code snippet of my last post. It is fixed now. Maybe you can rerun that (unless you were smart enough to figure out what I meant).
Alex Brinister |
I tried both. Does that count:)
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Okay. That means you will have to build a custom kernel (I don't know why Fedora doesn't enable the config.gz option in the kernel confg). Here is a link to the Fedora instructions on how to do this.
Alex Brinister |
I've been digging for this, and I've built the kernel. On the kernel config page the drivers are set to be modules. I don't know what that means but they don't show up anywhere. The kernel was just the previous kernel rebuilt. I havn't figured out how to patch the kernel yet. Havent found much about the drivers for newer kernels either.
If this is possible I should be able to find it. Else I need to find me a more linux friendly hardware. |
Did you enable /proc/config.gz support?
Alex Brinister |
Yay Thread Solved
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modprobe rt2800usb |
Hi, I downloaded latest Ralink driver and compiled it from their webpage: http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downl...ows.php?sn=501
After installing them and loading via "modprobe rt5370sta" I get ra0 wireless interface, but it looks it still doesn't work, networkmanager isn't showing anything. This guy has solved it: http://www.geekamole.com/2013/rt2800...-gentoo-linux/ But I'm not sure is this a bug in kernel driver or is this usb device wrongly presenting itself to the system? |
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