F13 alpha rt2860 wireless problem

[Bill Davidsen]

fred smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:57:10AM -0800, jack craig wrote:
>> On 03/11/2010 07:24 AM, fred smith wrote:
>>> Trying out F13 alpha on my eeepc 901.
>>>
>>> In previous versions, we had to go to a 3rd-party repo to get drivers for
>>> the RTA2860STA wireless chipset. But F13 seems to have at least some
>>> support built in, i.e., network manager detects the wireless hotspots
>>> nearby and offers them up for connection.
>>>
>>> however it won't actually connect. it noodles around for quite a while
>>> then reports failure.
>>>
>>> I've tried it with several different hotspots, including my own at home
>>> (to which f12 connects just fine on the same hardware) as well as two at
>>> work (all are WPA or WPA2), as well as a totally open, un-encrypted
>>> router at work, and it won't connect to any of them.
>>>
>>> Is thre some other package I need (beyond what is on the live cd)? Or is
>>> this fodder for Bugzilla?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>   
>> having issues with my eeepc 1000 and its rt2860, i replaced it with a 
>> Intel wireless card and it
>> works fine on fc12 for me.
>>
>> just fyi, jackc..
> 
> well, as I said above, the rt2860 works fine in f12 too.
> 
> I booted the f13 alpha on some j-random laptop around the office (an old HP
> of some sort) and wireless didn't work there either, in exactly the same way
> as on my eeepc. I did a lsmod and saw some ipw2200 things there which I 
> think are the wireless driver modules, so it's not working at least on those
> two different types of devices, with the same symptoms in both places.
> 
If you have ipw2200 modules either you or the OS is really confused about the 
hardware! How about attaching a dmesg to your next post and let's see why that is.

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