USB Portable Wifi setup
Chris Capesius
capesius at cox.net
Thu Jun 28 20:15:55 UTC 2012
-----Original Message-----
From: laptop-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:laptop-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Brian Morrison
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:44 AM
To: laptop at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: USB Portable Wifi setup
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:05:19 +0100
Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> The device you have uses the RTL8187 chipset, it should not be a
> problem to get it working under Fedora 17 with the 3.x kernel series,
> but you do need to have the correct driver packages installed so that
> udev recognises the hardware and loads the necessary modules when you
> insert the device.
You will also need to have the linux-firmware package installed, but I would expect that to be installed without needing manual intervention.
Look in
/usr/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/
and in
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi
and see what .ko and .bin files are there, these should be loaded automatically on insertion of the USB WiFi dongle.
--
Brian Morrison
_____________________________________________________________________
Thanks for the help Brian..here are my results
/usr/lib/modules/3.3.4-5fc17.x86-64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/
Output:
rtl8187.ko
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi
Output:
rtl8192cfw.bin rtl8192cufw.bin rtl8192defw.bin rtl8192sefw.bin rtl8712u.bin
Chris
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