Why does not a WiFi card work in Fedora, when it works in Debian.
Tomas Larsson
tomas at tlec.se
Wed Jun 7 05:30:45 UTC 2006
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> Subject: Re: Why does not a WiFi card work in Fedora,when it
> works in Debian.
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> Tomas Larsson wrote:
> >>> Been struggling to get a rt61 card to work in FC4.
> So-far with no
> >>> success, not with the various rt61 drivers, nor ndiswrapper. But
> >>> the rt61 chipset is reported to work in debian, why not in Fedora?
> >>
> >> It may be that the module worked in an older Fedora kernel, but as
> >> Fedora keeps moving to keep up with the upstream kernel, sometimes
> >> things outside the kernel break. If Debian ran the same version
> >> kernel, it'd likely have the same problem.
> >>
> >> (Not just Debian either, the same applies to just about
> any distro).
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >
> > Ok, question is the, should I drop FC and go for another
> distro (said
> > to be working) or should I get another card with hopefully another
> > chipset and start all over again?
>
> That's a fairly subjective question. Is wireless the only
> thing you are about? Have you tried some other distros to
> see if they have other things that don't work but which work
> in Fedora? I doubt any distribution is perfect for anyone,
> except a distribution you build for yourself.
>
> I have a system I built for a friend which includes a Linksys
> WMP54G card (using an RaLink RT2500 chipset). This isn't
> supported by the stock Fedora kernels, nor by the vanilla
> kernel, but it works out of the box using Ubuntu. I could
> have just gone with Ubuntu on the system but then I'd have
> had to deal with other things that either didn't work or
> worked differently than how I was used to. So my choice was
> to stick with Fedora on this system but to build the rt2500
> driver (I setup a system init script to rebuild the driver on
> each reboot if it isn't available, so on any reboot with a
> new kernel it will hopefully get built and installed
> automatically at the cost of about 30 seconds added to the
> bootup of a new kernel).
>
> The advantage is that I have a system which I know very well
> but which also supports the one piece of hardware which is
> installed that Fedora doesn't support out of the box. If I
> went with Ubuntu, I'd still be learning about the subtle
> differences between it and Fedora and I'd have to keep up on
> them anytime my friend had a question.
>
> Your choice might be different. Only you can answer that effectively.
I do agree with you, I "really" don't want to change distro, since I'm
getting familiar with Fedora, but,
I need that b..dy card up and running.
It seemms to me that quite a few cards are using RT61 now. So getting a new
card might turn out with the same problems.
The biggest problem, I think, is that I don't know wether it is the driver,
wext or wpa_suplicant that causes the problem.
With ndis and windows-driver I cant set ssid nor anything else,
wpa_supplicant nor wext don't seem to
Do anything.
With the rt2x00 driver wpa_supplicant seems not to be able to set the PSK,
hence I can't accossiate.
The original driver at RaLinkl site crashes the kernel so hard so I have to
pull the batteries and the plug,
in order to restart.
Tried to ask questions on both wpa_supplicant and ndis mailing lists, but
there is no response.
Any suggestions
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