Wireless adaptor DWL G-122 E1 /Fedora14 &Intel pentium(r)dual 3.00Ghz

[valent.turkovic at gmail.com]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:36 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/25/2011 08:45 AM, vicenc.melendez at dixieland.jazztel.es wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much Terry.
>>
>> The content you ask for is (for two different adaptors):
>>
>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07d1:3c0f D-Link System AirPlus G DWL-G122
>> Wireless Adapter(rev.E) [Ralink RT2870]
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> [Blai_isabel_Vicenc at localhost ~]$ ^C
>> [Blai_isabel_Vicenc at localhost ~]$ lsusb
>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2001:3a03 D-Link Corp. DWL-G132 (no firmware)
>> [Atheros AR5523]
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>>
>> Quoting vicenc.melendez at dixieland.jazztel.es:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >   Dear users members,
>> >
>> >   I would like to use a wireless adaptor DWL G122 witha desktop
>> > machine (Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00 Ghz with memory 1001 MiB.
>> > Kernel 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686. GNOME 2.32.0
>> >
>> >   I have tried Ralink  r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb
>> > firmware  adaptors with no results.
>> >
>> >   Any help is welcome.
>> >
>> >   Kind regards
>> >
>> >   Vicenc Melendez
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > 2007 Jazztel - Jazz Telecom, S.A.U. http://www.jazztel.com
>> > Antes de imprimir este e-mail piense bien si es necesario hacerlo.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 2007 Jazztel - Jazz Telecom, S.A.U. http://www.jazztel.com
>> Antes de imprimir este e-mail piense bien si es necesario hacerlo.
>>
> Originally, you had mentioned:
>
>  >> I have tried Ralink  r-2571w/rt2671 A B G network (rt73usb firmware
> adaptors with no results.
>
> Now, you say one of your interfaces is
>
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07d1:3c0f D-Link System AirPlus G DWL-G122
> Wireless Adapter(rev.E) [Ralink RT2870]
>
> The Ralink  rt-2870 is supported in kernel 2.6.35 and higher.
> I have tested it on a USB device with the rt-2870 chipset.
> The driver for this chipset is unstable and it locked  up my
> machine twice!. The Linux Wireless web page at
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rt2800usb
> says rt2870 is supported, which is true, but as I stated above, it is
> unstable as far as the rt2870
> chipset is concerned.
> I am running on the rt2860 mini-pci module, and is very well supported
> by the
> rt2800/rt2x00 drivers. Only problems I have with this mini-pci card are
> weak TX power, and poor Rx sensitivity.
>
> $ lsmod | grep rt2
> rt2800pci               6723  0
> rt2800lib              28134  1 rt2800pci
> rt2x00pci               4001  1 rt2800pci
> rt2x00lib              25300  3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci
>
>
> As far as
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2001:3a03 D-Link Corp. DWL-G132 (no firmware)
> [Atheros AR5523]
>
> "ar5523 is a driver to support old Atheros USB 802.11abg chipsets. Work
> is currently under developmen"    Per:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523#ar5523
>
> Cheers,
>
> JD

How to get AR5523 based wireless card working in Fedora 14?

Do I need to compile new drivers from source? Is firmware missing?

Is the best way to use windows drivers via ndiswrapper and just ignore
linux based drivers for now?

Cheers,
Valent.

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