USB Portable Wifi setup
by Chris Capesius
Hello.I am a newbie to Linux. I recently bought a portable USB Wifi device.
I verified it works on my Windows computer. I also verified my key/password
works too; as I was able to connect to The Internet wirelessly via Windows
with this device. How do I get my USB Wifi to work via my Fedora 17
laptop? In the top corner I see my wifi connection name, however my
password/ key does not work when I try to connect in Fedora? When I got it
to work via Windows it was plug/play, however the driver disk also came with
an .exe file too if needed. The disk, with drivers, also has a Linux driver
folder, however I'm guessing I can't connect, because I didn't install any
of these Linux drivers. How do I install the Linux drivers, because I don't
know how to do it without an .exe file? I have included what the zip file
looks like that was on the driver disk. Please help. The simpler the
instructions the better (I'm a newbie) if you think my problem is missing
drivers??.Thanks!..Chris
11 years, 9 months
Network/VPN issues
by William Henry
Since upgrading to Fedora 17 I've found the need to reboot my Lenova x220 laptop every morning. In the morning reconnecting the VPN is painful and sometimes takes many attempts. When I do connect, my connection to internal sites is really poor. I've checked and there have been no known VPN issues on both my VPN servers. Rebooting makes the problem go away. (btw I have very fast broadband)
I've gone back to "Cisco UDP" from "NAT-T" to see if that would help. But I wonder if this is something others are seeing similar issues with network connections degrading over time. (?)
Best,
William
11 years, 10 months
Re: WiFi For laptop
by Brian Morrison
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:33:24 -0700
"Chris Capesius" <capesius(a)cox.net> wrote:
> Thanks Brian..I REALLY appreciate your help..I'll go to work on that
> tomorrow!
You are welcome.
Two other things. Please would you reply to the list address and not
directly to me, that way the conversation is archived and is available
for other people to read.
And please would you place your replies after the quoted material and
also trim the unnecessary quoted text where it doesn't need repeating.
Keeps everything neater and much easier to read the list.
This is the expected format on *nix lists in most circumstances.
Cheers!
--
Brian Morrison
11 years, 10 months
Re: WiFi For laptop
by Brian Morrison
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:31:11 -0700
"Chris Capesius" <capesius(a)cox.net> wrote:
> Brian,
>
>
>
> It looks like I have a kernel later than 3.2.0, but when I ran the Yum code it couldn’t find it. I attached my results.
>
Try a yum clean all as root, the re-run the yum install command.
Have you tried a yum check-update? Your kernel is the original
installed kernel, there are two later than this that I know of,
probably plenty of other packages could do with updating.
--
Brian Morrison
"I am not young enough to know everything"
Oscar Wilde
11 years, 10 months
Display resolution 1024x600 in netbook
by Fernando de Almeida Tavares
Fedora 17, netbook, acer aspire one d255e, 1024x600 FAIL!!!!, 800x600 ok
backtrack (ubuntu), netbook, acer aspire one d255e, 1024x600 OK !!!!
in backtrack there is no 'xorg.conf ' file.
why?
Fernando de A Tavares
11 years, 10 months
RE: WiFi For laptop
by Brian Morrison
Right, so did you do the yum.... command I mentioned, as root? And do you have a later kernel than 3.2.0? uname -a will tell you.
Once you have installed the firmware package, then you should see firmware loaded in your dmesg output, use dmesg | more to page through the messages.
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Brian
Sent from Samsung MobileChris Capesius <capesius(a)cox.net> wrote:Thanks Brain,
Found the 2230 driver, but am now stuck on this part? (install the packages that install the actual wireless firmware)..Your right, the driver files can't be read, so I must need some software for the drivers to install/work??..anyone no where to find this package and/or a how to get these drivers to install?....arghhh this Linux experiment is really starting to backfire.
Chris
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To: laptop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: WiFi For laptop
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:52:05 -0700
"Chris Capesius" <capesius(a)cox.net> wrote:
> Hi FranciscoD,
>
> I included a copy of my LSPCI results (attachment). I have a Fujitsu
> Lifebook AH 532. I don't see any Wireless hardware to find drivers
> for, though maybe I'm incorrect? Like I mentioned I had no problems
> connecting via Wifi on Windows 7 prior to installing Linux 17. I'm a
> Linux newbie, so directions how to setup Wifi or driver locations
> would be great. When I right click Network settings (top right
> corner) it just shows "Wired" as an available option.
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: laptop-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:laptop-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ankur
> Sinha Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 11:36 PM To:
> laptop(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: WiFi For laptop
>
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 22:23 -0500, Chris Schumann wrote:
> > On 06/11/2012 07:32 PM, capesius(a)cox.net wrote:
> > > Hello, I am new to Linux and just installed Fedora 17 on my new
> > > Fujitsu laptop. Prior to installing Linux, when I was on Windows
> > > 7, I would just click on the network icon in the lower right
> > > corner of Windows and put in the SSID and password and I would be
> > > able to connect to the Internet wirelessly (my apartment complex
> > > provides free Internet). I connect the same way, to the Internet,
> > > with my IPad. How do I do the same in Linux via wiFi? I don't have
> > > a wireless card as far as I know (tried lspci | grep
> > > Wireless..showed nothing). It only shows "wired" as an available
> > > option to connect to The Internet for me via Fedora 17?
> > FWIW, the corresponding card in my ThinkPad is as follows:
> > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link
> > 5300 (So it's not called Wireless in this case.)
> >
> > Compare to my wired device:
> > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit
> > Network Connection (rev 03)
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
> As Chris already pointed out, please check the entire output of
> lspci/lsusb to see what wireless hardware you're system is using[1]
>
> Mostly, they work out of the box. If they don't, please take a look at
> this web page[2]. It has information on getting most cards to work.
>
>
> [1] http://fedoramobile.org/Members/MrHappy/getting-started
> [2] http://fedoramobile.org/
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Warm regards,
> Ankur: "FranciscoD"
>
> Please only print if necessary.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/
>
Looks like you have one of these:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-products/centrino-wireles...
I am not sure if iwlwifi supports this device, but that is the most likely driver that you need....right a look here:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/
reveals that the 2230 is supported provided that you have a kernel of version 3.2.0 or later. You will also need to install the packages that install the actual wireless firmware, which should contain a microcode file named something like this.
iwlwifi-2030-ucode-18.168.6.1
It seems as if there is an iwl2030-firmware package in updates-testing, you will need to run:
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install iwl2030-firmware
as root, that should then allow your wireless to be detected and to work.
This is a pretty new chipset BTW, hence Fedora is still catching up.
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11 years, 10 months
WiFi For laptop
by Chris Capesius
Hello, I am new to Linux and just installed Fedora 17 on my new Fujitsu laptop. Prior to installing Linux, when I was on Windows 7, I would just click on the network icon in the lower right corner of Windows and put in the SSID and password and I would be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly (my apartment complex provides free Internet). I connect the same way, to the Internet, with my IPad. How do I do the same in Linux via wiFi? I don't have a wireless card as far as I know (tried lspci | grep Wireless..showed nothing). It only shows "wired" as an available option to connect to The Internet for me via Fedora 17?
11 years, 10 months
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