Re: USB Portable Wifi setup
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:05:19 +0100
Brian Morrison <bdm(a)fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
The device you have uses the RTL8187 chipset, it should not be a
problem to get it working under Fedora 17 with the 3.x kernel series,
but you do need to have the correct driver packages installed so that
udev recognises the hardware and loads the necessary modules when you
insert the device.
You will also need to have the linux-firmware package installed, but I
would expect that to be installed without needing manual intervention.
Look in
/usr/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187/
and in
/lib/firmware/rtlwifi
and see what .ko and .bin files are there, these should be loaded
automatically on insertion of the USB WiFi dongle.
--
Brian Morrison