USB Portable Wifi setup

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:19:42 -0700
"Chris Capesius" <capesius at cox.net> wrote:

> Here are my results:
>
> /usr/lib/modules/3.3.4-5fc17.x86-64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/
>
> Output: 
> rtl8187.ko
>
> /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
>
> Output:
> rtl8192cfw.bin rtl8192cufw.bin rtl8192defw.bin rtl8192sefw.bin rtl8712u.bin
> 
> /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> Output:
> Fedora.repo
> Fedora-updates.repo
> Fedora-updates-testing.repo
> 
> rpm -qa | grep release
> 
> Output: fedora-release-notes-17.0.1-1.fe17.noarch
> Fedora-release-17-1.noarch

Right, well both of those look OK.

I suspect that you don't have any network access when you try the yum
check-update step as root, if this is the case then there is no way of
getting the updates.

Do you have the ability to plug in a network cable and use a wired
connection? If you do then I believe that you should be OK once the
3.4.x kernels are installed, and you repeat the installation of the
iwl2030 firmware from the updates-testing repository.

-- 

Brian Morrison

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