On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloaked@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kevin J. Cummings cummings@kjchome.homeip.net wrote:
The WiFi in my laptop gave up the ghost. Doesn't matter what card I put in the mini PCIe slot, the system doesn't think anything is there.
So, I bought one of those "new" $7 Wifi dongles for the USB port. Surprisingly small! 802.11n capable as well!
The problem? It appears in the lsusb list:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp.
But, nothing appears as a Wifi Device.
One Wifi email list suggested that it would be supported by the rt2x00 driver, but modprobing that driver does not recognize the device.
The RaLink site has 2 drivers that *should* support it: rt2870usb and rt2870sta.
I found that RPMFusion packages version 2.4.0 of the rt2870 driver, but there is no entry for the 148f:5370, so no network device gets created. Not even when I add an entry for it to: /lib/modules/2.6.25.14-96.fc14.x86_64/modules.usbmap
The final step I tried was to download the 2.5.0.2 driver from RaLink, and build it locally. It builds, but it doesn't build an installable kernel module:
# insmod rt5370sta.ko insmod: error inserting 'rt5370sta.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
Anyone have one of these running in their system yet?
I'm looking forward to seeing an ra0 device that I can use as my wifi connection!
I have on order one of the small wifi adapters which I believe should work with the rt2870usb also - and I will be very interested to hear of any progress - the reason I ordered the new one was that I have a device that was working fine with the realtek rtl8712SU driver but I cannot compile the driver with the 3.1 kernel as there are compile errors - and I want to test a laptop that needs this running f16 pre beta - there is supposed to be a suitable driver in kmod staging for the latter but kmod staging for f16 is not yet available.
So I thought I would try the rt2870 device and I will fiddle with it properly once it arrives in the coming days. I see you are using f14
- have you tried installing kmod-staging from rpmfusion to see if
there is a driver there?
I will post more once I get my device and tinker with it.
By the way my device is http://www.edimax.com/en/support_detail.php?pd_id=366&pl1_id=1&pl2_i... with the drivers listed at http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Edimax_EW-7722UTn
I am hoping that there may be a driver already in the newer kernels that may work - but if necessary I will try to compile the driver from source.... it is an interesting game trying to get these usb wifi adapters going!