Hi all,
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
Thanks,
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:02:21 +0100 Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
The last time I checked (a few weeks ago) "N" wireless cards were not yet supported under Linux.
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 18:05 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:02:21 +0100 Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
The last time I checked (a few weeks ago) "N" wireless cards were not yet supported under Linux.
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Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
What's the chipset? Can you please run lspci and show us what it displays for the wireless adapter?
Kevin Kofler
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:45:30 +0100 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
The last time I checked (a few weeks ago) "N" wireless cards were not yet supported under Linux.
This is nonsense.
Now there's a bit of good news. Can you recommend a wireless N card that works with Fedora? I wouldn't mind getting one for my laptop. I already have a couple of Linksys WRT300N 1.1 routers and would like to use them at more than wireless G speed.
Frank Cox wrote:
Now there's a bit of good news. Can you recommend a wireless N card that works with Fedora? I wouldn't mind getting one for my laptop. I already have a couple of Linksys WRT300N 1.1 routers and would like to use them at more than wireless G speed.
The Intel IWL4965AGN and IWL5000 are supported by the standard Fedora kernel, you just need the matching firmware from the standard Fedora repository (iwl4965-firmware resp. iwl5000-firmware).
The Ralink ones are supported by (somewhat buggy) out-of-tree drivers which are currently in RPM Fusion, getting better drivers into the kernel itself is work in progress.
Atheros chipsets are supported by the ath9k driver, see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k for details. As that one is in the kernel, that may be a better option than Ralink. And it doesn't even require firmware.
I'm not sure about other manufacturers.
Kevin Kofler
Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
According to Google, the chipset appears to be a Ralink rt2860. Try the rt2860 driver from RPM Fusion.
Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
Now there's a bit of good news. Can you recommend a wireless N card that works with Fedora? I wouldn't mind getting one for my laptop. I already have a couple of Linksys WRT300N 1.1 routers and would like to use them at more than wireless G speed.
The Intel IWL4965AGN and IWL5000 are supported by the standard Fedora kernel, you just need the matching firmware from the standard Fedora repository (iwl4965-firmware resp. iwl5000-firmware).
The Ralink ones are supported by (somewhat buggy) out-of-tree drivers which are currently in RPM Fusion, getting better drivers into the kernel itself is work in progress.
Atheros chipsets are supported by the ath9k driver, see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k for details. As that one is in the kernel, that may be a better option than Ralink. And it doesn't even require firmware.
I'm not sure about other manufacturers.
Kevin Kofler
I can see the wireless networks using this N pcimcia card but it will not allow me to authenticate the password.
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
According to Google, the chipset appears to be a Ralink rt2860. Try the rt2860 driver from RPM Fusion.
Kevin Kofler
I tried that and now I can see the wireless networks using this N pcimcia card but it will not allow me to authenticate the password to my router. It just keeps asking for the password again.
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
Now there's a bit of good news. Can you recommend a wireless N card that works with Fedora? I wouldn't mind getting one for my laptop. I already have a couple of Linksys WRT300N 1.1 routers and would like to use them at more than wireless G speed.
The Intel IWL4965AGN and IWL5000 are supported by the standard Fedora kernel, you just need the matching firmware from the standard Fedora repository (iwl4965-firmware resp. iwl5000-firmware).
The Ralink ones are supported by (somewhat buggy) out-of-tree drivers which are currently in RPM Fusion, getting better drivers into the kernel itself is work in progress.
Atheros chipsets are supported by the ath9k driver, see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k for details. As that one is in the kernel, that may be a better option than Ralink. And it doesn't even require firmware.
I'm not sure about other manufacturers.
Kevin Kofler
I got it working. The driver I was using for my card would not allow me to connect to my routers WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2=PSK [AES] setting at once but only one at a time. I was stumped because my Windows partition was working great. But now everything is great. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
According to Google, the chipset appears to be a Ralink rt2860. Try the rt2860 driver from RPM Fusion.
Kevin Kofler
I got it working. The driver I was using for my card would not allow me to connect to my routers WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2=PSK [AES] setting at once but only one at a time. I was stumped because my Windows partition was working great. But now everything is great. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Alex Makhlin wrote:
I am running Fedora 10 KDE 2 and am trying to install an N Wireless ExpressCard PCIMCIA adapter (M:F5D8073) but I cannot find a driver anywhere. Any one have a clue?
What's the chipset? Can you please run lspci and show us what it displays for the wireless adapter?
Kevin Kofler
I got it working. The driver I was using for my card would not allow me to connect to my routers WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2=PSK [AES] setting at once but only one at a time. I was stumped because my Windows partition was working great. But now everything is great. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
Alex Makhlin wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
Now there's a bit of good news. Can you recommend a wireless N card that works with Fedora? I wouldn't mind getting one for my laptop. I already have a couple of Linksys WRT300N 1.1 routers and would like to use them at more than wireless G speed.
The Intel IWL4965AGN and IWL5000 are supported by the standard Fedora kernel, you just need the matching firmware from the standard Fedora repository (iwl4965-firmware resp. iwl5000-firmware).
The Ralink ones are supported by (somewhat buggy) out-of-tree drivers which are currently in RPM Fusion, getting better drivers into the kernel itself is work in progress.
Atheros chipsets are supported by the ath9k driver, see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k for details. As that one is in the kernel, that may be a better option than Ralink. And it doesn't even require firmware.
I'm not sure about other manufacturers.
Kevin KoflerI got it working. The driver I was using for my card would not allow me to connect to my routers WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2=PSK [AES] setting at once but only one at a time. I was stumped because my Windows partition was working great. But now everything is great. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
Alex, you only need to reply to the thread once. It's nice that you tried to thank all three of the chaps who helped you, but it is a thread and they'd all see your thank you message in the thread.
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