RT2500 wireless nic??

[Ian Malone]

2010/1/15 Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>:
> Does anyone know how to get a wireless RT2500 to work?
> Have a co-worker that has an old P4 notebook that has this nic for wireless.
> Long ago, I had gotten it working with a sourceforge driver, but when I
> upgraded it to Fedora 11 that method wouldn't work. I just upgraded the
> machine to Fedora 12, and I can get the machine to see wireless hubs, but it
> always fails to get an IP.
>
> Tried the sourceforge info again, and it fails to build.
>
> Seems the RT2500 is now included in later kernels, but it doesn't connect
> with the hub with the network manager, or system-config-network, or using
> wlassistant.
>

This is a very long-standing bug in the driver, NetworkManager seems
to be less tolerant than the old system-config approach and as a
result often has trouble with DHCP:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457441

If you can configure your IP and DNS statically then it should work,
but DHCP is going to be a problem. Which is a serious pain in a
laptop.

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imalone