Fakeroot (Wi Fi edimax EW-7711UAn)

alfonso_V1 · #1 10th October 2009, 06:59 PM

What is Fakeroot? I did a "yum install rt2870" and 14megs of files downloaded and Fakeroot was one of them. I was still not able to get my Wi Fi edimax EW-7711UAn working.

So I did "yum remove rt2870" this only uninstalled two small files (a few Kbs)

SteveGYBE · #2 10th October 2009, 08:15 PM

You can display a brief description of an installed package such as "fakeroot" by running

Code:

rpm --query --info fakeroot

or more briefly

Code:

rpm -qi fakeroot

You can also use yum to query package info from the repositories which of course will include pakages that are not installed

Code:

yum info fakeroot

If you don't think you need the fakeroot package, use yum to try and remove that - it will tell you if there are any other packages that require it and ask you to confirm if you want them all removed.

alfonso_V1 · #3 10th October 2009, 09:23 PM

Hi Thanks, that has helped my peace of mind a lot. now perhaps you can help me install this usb wifi now that I have the driver. I go to system , admiistration , network , password to root then wireless but the adaptor is not listed there. how do I get this list updated to include my new installed rt2870 driver?

SteveGYBE · #4 10th October 2009, 10:01 PM

Not sure what that device is - run the following command

Code:

lsusb

and post the line that corresponds to your adapter. If you have the driver, you might also need firmware for your adapter.

Code:

dmesg | grep firmware

should show whether your device is trying to find any firmware.

SteveGYBE · #5 10th October 2009, 10:25 PM

The nice people at Ralink have the firmware here Firmware RT2870USB(RT2870/RT2770). The output from dmesg should tell you what you need to call the ".bin" file - you will need to copy it to /lib/firmware (as root).

alfonso_V1 · #6 11th October 2009, 12:12 AM

Thanks

the id is 7392:7791

i will have a go at that firmware

alfonso_V1 · #7 11th October 2009, 03:51 PM

This is prooving to be extremly difficult it takes me hours to find the right commands. Then nothing works. If I cant login as root looks like I will have to go to another distro. Fedora11 is the worst version yet.

scottro · #8 11th October 2009, 06:05 PM

There should be solutions to logging in as root all over the forum. I'm sorry I can't be of that much help, because, dinosaur that I am, I prefer logging in to text mode, and then typing startx, so I was never affected by it. (Meaning, that I'm not sure which solutions work, do they still work for F11, and so on.)

I was under the impression, which judging from your post, seems to be incorrect, that when you tried to do something that required root privilege, it would ask for root's password then let you go ahead.

Doing a bit of googling, it seems this one is a pain in the neck to get working.

Would you be willing to try reinstalling the rpm and then doing

modprobe rt2870

And seeing if that makes a difference? It might actually work.

(DISCLAIMER--I have NO experience with this card, so I may just be wasting your time.)

One thing that I can do is change the thread title a bit so those with this card might help.

SteveGYBE · #9 11th October 2009, 06:34 PM

Why would you need to log on as root? Open a command prompt ant type

Code:

steve@fedora ~]$ su -
Password: 
[root@fedora ~]#

...But surely you are already doing this before running "yum install" ... Of course, working for a corporate I'm used never to logging on as root, and never having a GUI whether root or not.

alfonso_V1 · #10 11th October 2009, 08:31 PM

Hi SteveGYB
Yes su - is vfine for one offs but when you are tryiing all kinds of things it would be better loged in as root.

Hi Scottro
Yes I woul be willing to try anything. What I have found is Driver files on the Edimax website this includes a readme file with the insructions but its a bit too much for me. Perhaps you can look at that and help me along. Thanks

logictox · #11 11th October 2009, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alfonso_V1

Hi SteveGYB
Yes su - is vfine for one offs but when you are tryiing all kinds of things it would be better loged in as root.

If you want to login as root using gui I found kind of a basket case way to do it with fedora 11. Edit /etc/innittab file to 3 from a 5 which disables gui login at boot. Then login as root and use the startx command. Like I say it's kind of a round about way but worked for me when I needed it.

scottro · #12 11th October 2009, 09:36 PM

Can you give me a link to that Edimax download?

alfonso_V1 · #13 11th October 2009, 10:16 PM

Hi Scottro, just ran the modprobe the driver has been installed and the other files moved to firmware. heres what I got.

[brian@mylap ~]$ modprobe RT2870
WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
FATAL: Module RT2870 not found.
[brian@mylap ~]$

scottro · #14 11th October 2009, 10:44 PM

Hrrm, Ok, that's not good. Did you try a reboot after installing. (Shouldn't be necessary, but one never knows)

alfonso_V1 · #15 11th October 2009, 11:08 PM

yes tried that

I noted that you changed the tread to Realink 2870 the adaptor I have is Edimax EW-7711UAn