Getting wireless working on an HP Mini 210

[John Albright]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Mike Wohlgemuth <mjw at woogie.net> wrote:

>  On 08/14/2011 03:03 AM, John Albright wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, John Albright <jalbright10 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 12, 2011 5:21 AM, "John Albright" <jalbright10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I can't get the wireless working in Fedora 15 on an HP Mini 210. It has
>>> an Ralink rt5390 chipset, which I'm not familiar with at all. I've been
>>> following the instructions on this page. I figured they would work on Fedora
>>> as well as Ubuntu. When I run make this is the output I get:
>>> >
>>> >> make -C tools
>>> >> make[1]: Entering directory
>>> `/home/ageeksgirl08/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
>>> >> gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
>>> >> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> `/home/ageeksgirl08/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools'
>>> >>
>>> /home/ageeksgirl08/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/tools/bin2h
>>> >> cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6
>>> /home/ageeksgirl08/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux/Makefile
>>> >> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686/build
>>> SUBDIRS=/home/ageeksgirl08/Downloads/2011_0406_RT5390_RT5392_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO/os/linux
>>> modules
>>> >> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686/build: No such file
>>> or directory.  Stop.
>>> >> make: *** [LINUX] Error 2
>>> >>
>>> > Does anybody have any experience with ralink chipsets or the HP Mini
>>> and know how to get this working? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Make sure you have kernel-devel package installed.
>>>
>>> - Gilboa (Android)
>>>
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>> Ok. When I get home from work this evening I'll make sure that I do, and
>> I'll let you know. Thanks.
>>
>
> Yep, that fixed the compiling issue and I was able to get the wireless
> working! Thanks a lot!
>
>  For what it's worth, I have a different model HP with the same card, and
> it is working great with the rt2x00pci driver in 2.6.40-4.fc15.  I just
> installed Fedora last week on the box, and whatever kernel that came with
> the installation didn't work, but my first update after the install
> completed fixed the issue.
>
> Woogie
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Interesting. I might give that a try sometime, just to see if it works.
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