Wusb600N and Fedora

[Mark Haney]

My old Linksys PCI card blew a gasket a couple weeks ago and I picked up a Linksys
WUSB600N USB card for one of my desktops since no one near me sells PCI cards. (I live in
Western NC) In Win7 it works fine but in Fedora it doesn't. I've googled
everything I can find on getting it working and only get bits from Ubuntu. 

Does anyone in the Fedora community have this card working? Or tips on how to make it
work? I'm just about to pull it and spend more cash on a PCI card if I can't get
this working soon. Help! 

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[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:59:47PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>  On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Mark Haney
> <sullafelix(a)ymail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > My old Linksys PCI card blew a gasket a couple weeks ago and I picked up a
>  > Linksys WUSB600N USB card for one of my desktops since no one near me sells
>  > PCI cards. (I live in Western NC) In Win7 it works fine but in Fedora it
>  > doesn't. I've googled everything I can find on getting it working and only
>  > get bits from Ubuntu.
>  >
>  > Does anyone in the Fedora community have this card working? Or tips on how
>  > to make it work? I'm just about to pull it and spend more cash on a PCI card
>  > if I can't get this working soon. Help!
>  
>  There are instructions here that take Fedora into account:
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580657
>  
>  Alternatively, if the store near you has multiple models, go back and
>  trade it out for one that works properly on Linux with no headaches.
>  There is a list of supported USB wireless network adapters here:
>  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB 
I'm not the OP, but it looks to me as if the model he mentions
is on that list.

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[Terry Polzin]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:34 -0700, Mark Haney wrote:
>  My old Linksys PCI card blew a gasket a couple weeks ago and I
> picked
>  up a Linksys WUSB600N USB card for one of my desktops since no one
>  near me sells PCI cards. (I live in Western NC) In Win7 it works fine
>  but in Fedora it doesn't. I've googled everything I can find on
>  getting it working and only get bits from Ubuntu. 
>  
>  Does anyone in the Fedora community have this card working? Or tips on
>  how to make it work? I'm just about to pull it and spend more cash on
>  a PCI card if I can't get this working soon. Help! 
>  
>  Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
>  
>   
send lsusb output.

check that you have the firmware installed for the chipset,
in /lib/firmware

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:59 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth
<tchollingsworth(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Alternatively, if the store near you has multiple models, go back
> and
>  trade it out for one that works properly on Linux with no headaches.
>  There is a list of supported USB wireless network adapters here:
>  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB 
Wait, the WUSB600N is on that list, so it should Just Work.  You're
not trying it with an older version of Fedora are you?  The rt2800usb
kernel driver is relatively new.

If you are using a recent version of Fedora, you should probably file
a bug against the kernel:
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/kernel

-T.C.

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Mark Haney <sullafelix(a)ymail.com&gt; wrote:
>  My old Linksys PCI card blew a gasket a couple weeks ago and I picked
> up a
>  Linksys WUSB600N USB card for one of my desktops since no one near me sells
>  PCI cards. (I live in Western NC) In Win7 it works fine but in Fedora it
>  doesn't. I've googled everything I can find on getting it working and only
>  get bits from Ubuntu.
>
>  Does anyone in the Fedora community have this card working? Or tips on how
>  to make it work? I'm just about to pull it and spend more cash on a PCI card
>  if I can't get this working soon. Help! 
There are instructions here that take Fedora into account:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580657

Alternatively, if the store near you has multiple models, go back and
trade it out for one that works properly on Linux with no headaches.
There is a list of supported USB wireless network adapters here:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB

-T.C.