Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:14:47PM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> I bought a card that said Fedora on the box.
> 
> Well, i couldn't follow the install instructions (they were for FC4
> but referenced a directory on the CD that didn't exist).
> 
> It's a Ralink rt73, so I followed the instructions at
> http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/rt2x00-wireless-lan-chipset 
> (but I downloaded the rt73 CVS snapshot) 
> 
> and everything goes fine until in the dialog when I press the new
> button, and select wireless card - the only card shown is "Other
> wireless card".
> 
> Trying to use that takes me to ethernet stuff.
> 
> So I abandoned that, and did an lsmod - rt73 is loaded OK.
> 
> Clearly i'm almost there. Probably I can do this by editing config
> files now. But how?
> 
> Any help much appreciated.

yum install rt73usb-firmware

I think NetworkManager will take care of you from there.  If not,
you may want to try 'modprobe -r rt73usb ; modprobe rt73usb' or
simply reboot.

Hth!

John
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John W. Linville
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