List of compatible wifi cards / chipsets?

[dspettit]

Hello to all.

Just installed FC13 on old laptop, (had FC11). Wifi card is recognized, but won't work. Instead of messing with ndiswrapper, etc., I am looking for a list of compatible cards or chipsets for cards that work with FC13. Anyone know where I can find such a thing? Or, can anyone recommend a specific card that works right out of the box with FC13? Need a cardbus card, PCI, not a USB.

lspci:
0d:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI

Thanks,
Doug

[stevea]

I believe that part should use the rt61pci.ko driver, but yo uneed to install the firmware if it's not.
Try (as root)
yum install rt61pci-firmware.noarch
reboot

Then try ifconfig -a after the reboot and look for the interface.

If that fails, then try
modprobe rt61pci
and report the result.

Also retry the lspci like ...
lspci -nnk
and this will show the vendor IDs and the driver (if any).

[nyjetshead]

A possible source and answer to your original question can be found here.

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users

But hopefully you get it working with Steve a's suggestions.

[dspettit]

Thanks to both of you for the replies. It is now working after installing the proper driver.

I appreciate all the help this forum has given me over the years. It's people like the two of you that make it all worth the effort.

Thanks again.
Doug

[droidhacker]

Amazing how things have changed... used to be that you were lucky to get a wifi device that could work at all. Then there was the ndiswrapper, which was a total nightmare of loading windoze drivers in linux. Now, pretty much everything work. Worst case tends to be missing proprietary firmware.