how to connect a wireless router?

[piulitza]

I have a question. I just bought an internet router which also has wireless connection and my notebook also has wireless LAN. I was able to connect the computer to the internet router very easy. But i dont know how to make it work wirelesss under fedora linux 12...i mean how should i setup the connection to the router so i will be able to have a wireless connection?

[stoat]

Hello piulitza,

Fedora comes with many wireless drivers. Some will "just work" as the saying goes. Some require you to do something such as install firmware. Some wireless cards may not have a driver present in Fedora, and you have to acquire a driver from somewhere else and install it. Some wireless cards don't have a Linux driver at all, but some of those can still be made to work with special software that makes a Windows driver work in Fedora. Some wireless card seem never to work in Linux. So the first step is to identify the chipset in your wireless card. That is what determines the driver it needs or if a Linux driver is known to exist for it.

Many wireless cards use the PCI bus, and this command run in a Fedora terminal will identify the chipset...

lspci

Look through the output of that for a wireless network controller. Post that part of the lspci report here.

If there was no wireless network controller in the lspci report, then your wireless card may be using the Universal Serial Bus. This terminal command may reveal something about it...

lsusb

The wireless card will not be so obvious in that. It lists devices by PCI-ID number and may or may not have much other information.

If there is no sign of a wireless adapter in either of those, then the wireless adapter could be disabled by a setting in BIOS, a software switch or hot key, or a physical on-off switch.

Anyway, post whatever you discover, and someone may recognize something that identifies your chipset and know how to make it work in Fedora.

[piulitza]

after i have written lspci on terminal i got

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 AHCI Controller (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9200M G (rev b1)
06:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe





and after i written lsusb i got
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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06:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

this says me i should have some wireless drivers on my notebook

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well seems the notebook wireless device does not work even on windows 7 and there an usb adapter for my router worked very well. I tried same thing on linux...and i was able to connect using it pretty easy. That tells me smth is wrong with notebook's wireless.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by piulitza

That tells me smth is wrong with notebook's wireless.

Myabe. But it's not unheard of for the wireless adapter to be disabled by one of the following: a setting in BIOS, a setting in Windows, a software switch or hot key, a physical on-off switch on the card or the computer.

[JEO]

I did a Google search for RaLink RT3090 and saw a recent thread that says it's also not working or recognized in Ubuntu 9.10. I think it may be a new card that just hasn't yet had support added to the current kernel. You can download "compat-wireless" and compile those driver modules, as they are usually cutting edge and have the best chance of supporting the lastest wireless cards.