wifi troubleshooting

[Adam Tong]

Hi,

That's a very good idea.
Is there any kind of dongles that are more suitable for fedora or I can pick any wifi enabled one?

Thank you


--- On Mon, 3/28/11, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:

From: bruce <badouglas at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: wifi troubleshooting
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:35 PM

Hi Adam.

Since you have a usb port, do you have a separate usb/wireless dongle that you can insert in the usb port to see if it gets recognized by the OS.

you can get cheap dlink wireless dongles to test (and then take back to the store!!).


I've always got a cheap dlink to use as a test for usb ports.

i think it's time to start at the basics, to isolate your issues here.



On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Adam Tong <helpcomm at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,


>This version of Linux DOES indeed support rt2xxx chipsets, so I am at a loss 
>as to why it is not detecting your USB wifi device which has this chipset.

I appreciate your help. You know, this is an old laptop that came with windows. This is the kind of deal windows make with some manufacturers so that the os comes with the drivers of the manufacturer that was made for windows. When I formated my pc and I reinstalled windows (lost the original one) it did not detect it either. I had to download the driver even for windows. But in the manufacturers site  I did not find anything for linux (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us).

Here  is the info of my wifi card:

WL-159g 802.11bg (USB2.0 WLAN) 
Manufacturer : ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
ASUS A9 Series (A9T) (notebook)

But i'm quite
 sure that a lot of other manufacturers do not provide drivers for linux. How linux do for recognizing those devices anyway?

Thank you again




      
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