Wireless Not Present

[charactermatter]

I have an asus PC901 bought it with the linux os. I ran it that way for a while, then put F-9 (or was it F-10) on it and it ran fine. I decided to go back to the original preinstalled xandros system for regular use, as all of the harware and gimicks worked right out of the box without any tweaks. I wanted to try Fedora on it again and installed the F12 XFCE live spin. Everything was ok, EXCEPT the wireless will not work. I installed the driver from RPM fusion and still does not see a wireless card installed. I remember that it worked flawlessly when I installed F-9 ( or was it F-10) before. So it shouldn't be an issue of needing to install an ndiswrapper on a windows driver, since ti has worked previously with open source drivers. Heck, the driver's even listed in the Fedora RPM Fusion repos. I took the F-12 install off and thought I would get it working in F-11, but still it doesn't see the card. The card is an RaLink RT2790. I now Have F-11 installed and can only get the wired network to work. (Not very useful for a netbook.) I know my mac address as I wrote it down when I still had the xandros hybrid installed. IW config shows no wireless extensions. There seems to be no wireless card installed. I know I had it working in F-9 or F-10. Can anyone lend a hand?

[multescugeorge@]

Haven't got any experience on laptops thingy and grasping at straws here but... i remember most laptops have a hardware switch to start/stop wireless, is it "ON" ?
See if any suspicious messages appear in /var/log/messages and in /var/log/dmesg files.

It could be that the new kernel or kernel driver has troubles with it, you /could/ downgrade your kernel to a lower version (www.kernel.org) and see if that fixes it.

[bbfuller]

Hello charactermatter

There's a thread here:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=211860

that reckons the RT2790 works with the RT2860 driver packages from rpmfusion.

No guarantees.

Post back if you need to talk about installing the packages, or indeed to report progress.

[charactermatter]

I loaded the rt2860 driver and kernel module from the rpmfusion repo. The card showed up on lspci, but when I go to the network manager applet it does not show an "enable wireless" option. This used to work so well. I intalled the xfce spin and am getting the same problem. The card seems to be installed, but not recognized. I tried both enable wpa supplicant service, and disable wpa supplicant (restarting after each) and it made no difference. (I am not sure whether I need it left on or not.). So I also tried to system-config-network and it didn't seem to make any difference. I installed teh I586 akmod and it still didn't work, and now it doesn't seem to show up on lspci either...Should I leave them both installed or take one off? I am starting to get frustrated and confused. I went back and installed F10 and it didn't work, then I loaded F11, no help. Right now I have a F12 XFCE spin installed and fully updated. The kmod and akmod are both installed. Ii did not load the pae kernel. here is my current:

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[Johneee@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)
[Johneee@localhost ~]$ 


Edit: There is no hardware switch for the wifi.

[bbfuller]

Hello charactermatter

I've done a little checking around, enough to convince myself that your "asus PC901" probably comes with RaLink RT2790 wireless.

I'm concerned though that the "lspci" you've posted above makes no mention of it.

Is that an oversight, or is the wireless really missing as far as Fedora is concerned?

[charactermatter]

The repos showed it as being included in the rt2860 driver. It worked on F-10. I installed F-10 on this computer last year and the wireless worked, out of teh box. I suspect teh kmod for the card is messed up.That's why the kernel doesn't list it plugged in. What I don't understand, is why it didn't work when I installed the old version of F10, unless when I installed THAT and updated, I rolled to a new kernel that I didn't use last year...anyway, If you think of something let me know, and thanks for the repliees.

Edit: Somehow, in my BIOS everytime I restart, the wifi card get's turned off. So anyway, When I turned it on and started, this is what I get: Notice teh card is oresent....

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[Johneee@localhost ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

pan0      no wireless extensions.

[Johneee@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)
[Johneee@localhost ~]$