Linksys Wireless G Network Card Setup

[djaaronfries]

I have a linksys wireless G network card. I just installed FC 7 and it is not working... can someone please help me with some answers. Thanks

DJ Aaron
djaaronfries@comcast.net

[zackf]

What's the model of the card?

[djaaronfries]

Linksys WMP54G Wireless-G PCI Adapter

[GreyWizzard]

Originally Posted by djaaronfries

Linksys WMP54G Wireless-G PCI Adapter

What is the output of lspci ?

[djaaronfries]

Originally Posted by GreyWizzard

What is the output of lspci ?

I have no clue what you are talking about nor how to find out. Iam extremely new at linux. Sorry. Please give me more info on what this is and how to find this out.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by djaaronfries

I have no clue what you are talking about nor how to find out. Iam extremely new at linux. Sorry. Please give me more info on what this is and how to find this out.

Open a terminal in Fedora and run this command at the command prompt...

/sbin/lspci

Then copy the result and paste it in your next post here. It will reveal the chipset of your wireless card. It's important.

[djaaronfries]

Originally Posted by stoat

Open a terminal in Fedora and run this command at the command prompt...

/sbin/lspci

Then copy the result and paste it in your next post here. It will reveal the chipset of your wireless card. It's important.

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Communication controller: Conexant Unknown device 2f82
[root@localhost ~]#

[stoat]

Hello djaaronfries,

This other thread here makes me think that your card may work "out-of-the-box" with a built-in driver in Fedora. Open the Services Configuration utility (system-config-services) and enable and/or restart NetworkManager. If you are using WPA encryption, disable the wpa_supplicant service (for me, it makes booting smoother and NM will start it later anyway). Try rebooting and working with the NetworkManager tray icon to find your router and get connected. Enter the encryption key when asked. If you get asked for a default keyring password, try your root password. No promises.

[djaaronfries]

Well I was told by another linux user that I know that Ubuntu 8.04 has the driver built in and I tried the live desktop cd of it and it works so I installed that over FC7 and Iam up and running. Thanks to those who attempted to help me on this issue.
Aaron