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scuac
2007-05-19, 12:46 PM CDT
I am looking for a new wireless card for my computer. After a horrible
experience with my current one while trying to migrate from WinXP to
FC5 last year, I gave up and went back to Windows.
I want to give it a try again, but this time I want to make sure I am
buying a card that works solid, out of the box, with FC6 (64bit).

Suggestions?



By the way, the card I currently have is a Gigabyte WPKG with a Ralink chipset.
I threw everything at it and the kitchen sink for a month
(the manufacturer's Linux drivers, the ones on sourceforge, ndiswrapper,...).
Mind you I consider myself knowledgeable enough.
I administer an entire Linux cluster at work, and have had success with
the wireless in my notebook on a PCMCIA card with ndiswrapper,
but this thing just refuses to work.
It is a shame because it happend at a time when I resolved to ditch MS
completely from my life and had to come running back to it.
This is really bad for Linux if it happens to users on a regular basis.

ramasees
2007-05-19, 01:49 PM CDT
looks like your wireless card is rt2500 which is pretty well supported driver heres a link to the driver
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads
easy to install as long as you have gcc kernel-devel installed or there is a site with rpms to install, however the site has been offline for a week but below is what you need to put in a root terminal if it comes back

wget http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/kwizart-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh kwizart-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo kwizart install kmod-rt2x00
(keep in mind it will prob also update you to latest kernel)
hope this was some help

SVwander
2007-05-22, 06:31 AM CDT
looks like your wireless card is rt2500 which is pretty well supported driver heres a link to the driver
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads
easy to install as long as you have gcc kernel-devel installed or there is a site with rpms to install, however the site has been offline for a week but below is what you need to put in a root terminal if it comes back

wget http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/kwizart-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh kwizart-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
yum --enablerepo kwizart install kmod-rt2x00
(keep in mind it will prob also update you to latest kernel)
hope this was some help

I tried useing the wget address above but get a Not Found 404 is that the correct url?

ramasees
2007-05-22, 08:13 AM CDT
the site was down but is up and running now here it is just in case
http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/6/i386/repodata/
http://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/6/x86_64/repodata/