D-Link DWL-G510 wireless G Desktop Adapter on Fedora 7

[John Summerfield]

Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:15 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:10:45AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:50:12PM +0530, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
>>>
>>>> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>>> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>>> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>>> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>>> Hmmm...I wonder what it is telling us? :-)
>>>
>>> 	yum install rt61pci-firmware
>>> 	modprobe -r rt61 ; modprobe rt61
>> Of course, the second line should be:
>>
>> 	modprobe -r rt61pci ; modprobe rt61pci
>>
>> Don't forget to execute the "yum install" line first!
>>
>> John
>> -- 
>> John W. Linville
>> linville at redhat.com
> 
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. But it didn't work.
> 
> I did install rt61pci-firmware using yum.
> modprobe -r rt61pci ; modprobe rt61pci doesn't appear to anything. 
> 
> When I try to activate the wifi adapter I get this message:

With what command?


> Determining IP information for wlan0...dhclient(18140) is already
> running - exiting. 
So stop it.
ifdown ...
ifup ...


> This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
> on ftp.isc.org.  Features have been added and other changes
> have been made to the base software release in order to make
> it work better with this distribution.
> Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site:
>     http://bugzilla.redhat.com
> exiting.
>  failed.
> 
> Any hints to solve the problem would be highly appreciated.
> 
> 


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John

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