Need help with WLAN on Eee PC 1000H

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 16 15:30:56 UTC 2009


Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> fred smith schrieb:
>
> Hello!
>
>   
>> And there's no need to compile it for f10 either. Just add the
>> RPM FUsion free and nonfree repositories then use "add/remove software"
>> to add the kmod or akmod packages for the rt2860 driver. Voila.
>>     
>
> Well, my experience say otherwise... Voilà is not true. I just installed
> the akmod-rt2860 driver and restored the virgin wpa_supplicant.conf to
> please NM. But still no progress in this matter.
>
>   
>>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=199434
>>>       
>
> If this procedure does not succeed the next thing I will try is to
> backup F10 and restore the original WinXP. Then I'll connect to my AP
> and pull the battery. I suspect the Windows driver to leave the chipset
> in a dorment state. It's only a wild guess but I have no other idea.
>
>   
Did FC10 possibly setup a driver for it before you installed the kmod 
driver ?
If so that FC10 driver must be blacklisted in /etc/depmod.d/blacklist 
file or the kmod driver will conflict with the FC10 driver.




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