how to setup wireless on fedora 11 - Page 3

picxelplay · #31 2009-10-04, 05:13 PM CDT

But in earlier posts, you only referred to the .inf, and nothing about what do do with the other files. I guess I am lost.

picxelplay · #32 2009-10-04, 05:18 PM CDT

And also, in RT2500V3.0.1.0_for_Win2003.zip, there are 3 folders named Win2003_AMD64, Win2003_IA64, Win200_x86. Now, in each of those 3 folders, there is only 2 files, the .inf and the .sys

bbfuller · #33 2009-10-05, 01:27 AM CDT

Hello picxelplay

Maybe the instructions can be mis-read, if so, I apologise. However, in my defence I can ony say they have been used many times before and nobody has tried it your way before. I'll consider amending them.

Let's assume you have the RT2500V3.0.1.0_for_Win2003.zip file in your downloads folder.

In KDE I would right click on it and select "Extract Archive here". I assume there is something similar in Gnome.

Probably then you will have a new folder in your downloads area called RT2500V3.0.1.0 or something similar.

I'll trust you to interpret whatever turns up for you. If you are running ordinary 32 bit Fedora you would then:

Code:

cd /home/bbfuller/Downloads/RT2500V3.0.1.0/Win200_x86

Change my username for yours, and of course change the path if necessary, and then

Code:

ndiswrapper -i rt2500.inf

That will enable ndiswrapper to look at the 32 bit inf and sys files in one go.

Let me know how that turns out.

picxelplay · #34 2009-10-05, 01:47 AM CDT

This is everything from the terminal:

Code:

[jeff@jeff ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@jeff ~]# cd /home/jeff/Download/Win2003_x86
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]# ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.INF
driver rt2500 is already installed
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]# ndiswrapper -l
rt2500 : invalid driver!
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]#

bbfuller · #35 2009-10-05, 01:55 AM CDT

Hello picxelplay

I'm not sure just what ndiswrapper considers an installed driver as it hasn't had all the information to work on before. Try:

Code:

ndsiwrapper -e rt2500

to erase whatever has gone before. Take a look in the folder:

Quote:

/etc/ndiswrapper

and empty it if there is anything remaining and then do 'ndiswrapper -i', 'ndiswrapper -l' again.

If it fails yet again we'll have to look for another driver. Ndiswrapper doesn't like all windows drivers equally.

picxelplay · #36 2009-10-05, 02:14 AM CDT

Code:

[root@jeff ~]# ndsiwrapper -e rt2500
-bash: ndsiwrapper: command not found

Inside is:
/etc/ndiswrapper/rt2500/rt2500.inf
thats it. There are no other directories or files in /etc/ndiswrapper

bbfuller · #37 2009-10-05, 02:19 AM CDT

Hello picxelplay

I see that you are copying and pasting some of the commands I write.

That should have been 'ndiswrapper -e' not 'ndsiwrapper -e'. It's a dull grey morning here and I don't feel much livelier than that myself. Hence the disobedient fingers when typing!

picxelplay · #38 2009-10-05, 02:42 AM CDT

Code:

[root@jeff ~]# ndsiwrapper -e rt2500
-bash: ndsiwrapper: command not found
[root@jeff ~]# ndiswrapper -e rt2500
[root@jeff ~]# cd /home/jeff/Download/Win2003_x86
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]# ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.INF
installing rt2500 ...
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]# ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
rt2500 : driver installed
	device (1814:0201) present (alternate driver: rt2500pci)
[root@jeff Win2003_x86]# modprobe ndiswrapper
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.

Immediately after the terminal was done, I got a notification pop up saying I was connected to my wireless network. I then tested it out and was able to browse the internet.

Hey thanks so very much for your time. I really do appreciate it. I love forums and open source software, because it is people like us that drive the software and communities. You made my day. If you ever need any advice in the web design area, shoot me an email at admin.jeff@picxelplay.com
And I appreciate the other couple people that threw their two sense in also. Thanks!

bbfuller · #39 2009-10-05, 04:40 AM CDT

Hello picxelplay

Pleased to hear it works.

Enjoy wireless, enjoy Linux.

ceres83 · #40 2009-10-07, 04:45 PM CDT

Hi everybody!
This is my first post to the forum even if I'm following it regularly since I threw away my windows copy

I'm sorry to bother but i have a problem with my wireless card that is driving me crazy. Maybe someone can point me in the good direction...
I have an hp dv6500 with Fedora 11 - 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586
I have a Broadcom adapter
# lspci -nn | grep -i -e network -e wireless
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 02)

that worked perfectly with the b43 driver with the firmware extracted from windows [dell?] driver with b43-fwcutter.

Last weekend I installed the new kernel (among with other updates). After the reboot wireless works only in open access mode (with no WPA/WEP activated). Whenever I put the encryption on, NetworkManager keeps popping up the secrets windows without connecting.
I tried booting with previous kernel but with no success. Thinking that maybe the new broadcom-wl drivers could be of help I blacklisted all b43,ssb... and installed broacom-wl,kmod-wl. With no joy: wireless still works only in open mode.
I run wpa_supplicant manually with debug option:
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -Dwext -iwlan0 -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log -ddd
just before connecting and here there is the log of the failed connection. I tried to make some sense out of it but my head exploded soon

I'd be very happy if someone could take the time to help me with this problem!

Cheers,

Ceres

**stoat** · #41 2009-10-07, 07:37 PM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceres83

Whenever I put the encryption on, NetworkManager keeps popping up the secrets windows without connecting.

Hello ceres83,

Sometimes when that happens it helps to right-click the NetworkManager panel applet, "Edit Connections...", Wireless tab, delete the existing connections, and establish a new connection.

ceres83 · #42 2009-10-09, 12:09 PM CDT

Stoat: it worked perfectly! how comes that just recreating the connection solved the problem? Really it was something I'd never thought by myself, thanks a lot!

Cheers,

hm_shurt · #43 2009-11-01, 03:29 PM CST

To those who have laptops with Realtek 8192se wireless chips, a linux driver is now available from Realtek in an easily compilable and installable package. I found it on the Ubuntu forum here - for x86 systems
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/339279...12.2009.tar.gz or for x86_64 systems here
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/340903...9_64bit.tar.gz
The discussion is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/401126
I have it running on a Toshiba Satellite L150-016 x86_64 with Fedora 11 and it installed with no problems.

hm_shurt · #44 2009-11-02, 02:25 PM CST

an update.. unfortunately the 64bit version of the realtek rtl8192se linux driver seems to have a problem with iommu and will fail after a few minutes of wireless connection, at least on my Toshiba laptop running Fedora 11.