Why does not a WiFi card work in Fedora, when it works in Debian.
Dan
grinnz at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 17:45:25 UTC 2006
Tomas Larsson wrote:
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>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Todd Zullinger
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:30 AM
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Why does not a WiFi card work in Fedora,when it
>> works in Debian.
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>> Tomas Larsson wrote:
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>>>>> Been struggling to get a rt61 card to work in FC4.
>>>>>
>> So-far with no
>>
>>>>> success, not with the various rt61 drivers, nor ndiswrapper. But
>>>>> the rt61 chipset is reported to work in debian, why not in Fedora?
>>>>>
>>>> It may be that the module worked in an older Fedora kernel, but as
>>>> Fedora keeps moving to keep up with the upstream kernel, sometimes
>>>> things outside the kernel break. If Debian ran the same version
>>>> kernel, it'd likely have the same problem.
>>>>
>>>> (Not just Debian either, the same applies to just about
>>>>
>> any distro).
>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ok, question is the, should I drop FC and go for another
>>>
>> distro (said
>>
>>> to be working) or should I get another card with hopefully another
>>> chipset and start all over again?
>>>
>> That's a fairly subjective question. Is wireless the only
>> thing you are about? Have you tried some other distros to
>> see if they have other things that don't work but which work
>> in Fedora? I doubt any distribution is perfect for anyone,
>> except a distribution you build for yourself.
>>
>> I have a system I built for a friend which includes a Linksys
>> WMP54G card (using an RaLink RT2500 chipset). This isn't
>> supported by the stock Fedora kernels, nor by the vanilla
>> kernel, but it works out of the box using Ubuntu. I could
>> have just gone with Ubuntu on the system but then I'd have
>> had to deal with other things that either didn't work or
>> worked differently than how I was used to. So my choice was
>> to stick with Fedora on this system but to build the rt2500
>> driver (I setup a system init script to rebuild the driver on
>> each reboot if it isn't available, so on any reboot with a
>> new kernel it will hopefully get built and installed
>> automatically at the cost of about 30 seconds added to the
>> bootup of a new kernel).
>>
>> The advantage is that I have a system which I know very well
>> but which also supports the one piece of hardware which is
>> installed that Fedora doesn't support out of the box. If I
>> went with Ubuntu, I'd still be learning about the subtle
>> differences between it and Fedora and I'd have to keep up on
>> them anytime my friend had a question.
>>
>> Your choice might be different. Only you can answer that effectively.
>>
>
> I do agree with you, I "really" don't want to change distro, since I'm
> getting familiar with Fedora, but,
> I need that b..dy card up and running.
> It seemms to me that quite a few cards are using RT61 now. So getting a new
> card might turn out with the same problems.
>
> The biggest problem, I think, is that I don't know wether it is the driver,
> wext or wpa_suplicant that causes the problem.
>
> With ndis and windows-driver I cant set ssid nor anything else,
> wpa_supplicant nor wext don't seem to
> Do anything.
> With the rt2x00 driver wpa_supplicant seems not to be able to set the PSK,
> hence I can't accossiate.
>
> The original driver at RaLinkl site crashes the kernel so hard so I have to
> pull the batteries and the plug,
> in order to restart.
>
> Tried to ask questions on both wpa_supplicant and ndis mailing lists, but
> there is no response.
>
> Any suggestions
>
>
If you're willing to get a new wireless card, ipw2100/2200/2915 and
atheros chipsets seem to have the best driver support (from livna,
atrpms, sourceforge itself, etc); ipw chipsets are mostly in
centrino-based laptops so I don't know if you can purchase it
separately, but if you google you can find a list of cards with an
atheros chipset.
-Dan
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