Ralink 3592 Wifi on Fedora 15

[r***@webworxshop.com]

Hi Everyone,

I just received a new work laptop (a HP ProBook 4530s), which came
pre-installed with Windows 7. After a bit of fiddling with the partition
layout I've installed Fedora 15 on it. However, I am unable to get the
on-board wifi working.

According to lspci the wifi chip is a Ralink 3592, which uses the
rt2800pci driver. The driver is loaded on startup correctly and I have a
network interface (wlan0) corresponding to the wifi. However, I can't
see any wireless networks (either via network manager or iwlist).

I've also tried some other drivers from the RPMFusion repo (the 2860,
2870 and 3070 drivers) as well as the driver on the Ralink website
(http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2). In the case of the Ralink
driver I couldn't get it to compile for my chip (after changing the
identifier in the makefile), although it will compile for other
versions.

Has anyone had any experience with this chip? Specifically interested
in Fedora based experience, but any help is welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers,

Rob Connolly

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[Nevyn]

The rt2800pci module is relatively new and the ones put out by ralink seemed
to break with every new kernel release.

I've found it works okay in 2.6.38...

Post by r***@webworxshop.com
Hi Everyone,
I just received a new work laptop (a HP ProBook 4530s), which came
pre-installed with Windows 7. After a bit of fiddling with the partition
layout I've installed Fedora 15 on it. However, I am unable to get the
on-board wifi working.
According to lspci the wifi chip is a Ralink 3592, which uses the rt2800pci
driver. The driver is loaded on startup correctly and I have a network
interface (wlan0) corresponding to the wifi. However, I can't see any
wireless networks (either via network manager or iwlist).
I've also tried some other drivers from the RPMFusion repo (the 2860, 2870
and 3070 drivers) as well as the driver on the Ralink website (
http://www.ralinktech.com/**support.php?s=2<http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2>).
In the case of the Ralink driver I couldn't get it to compile for my chip
(after changing the identifier in the makefile), although it will compile
for other versions.
Has anyone had any experience with this chip? Specifically interested in
Fedora based experience, but any help is welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Cheers,
Rob Connolly

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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Post by Nevyn
The rt2800pci module is relatively new and the ones put out by ralink seemed
to break with every new kernel release.
I've found it works okay in 2.6.38...

Fedora 15 is on 2.6.40, but my netbook uses the same driver and that
works fine. My guess is that the 3592 revision is newer and is not yet
fully supported.

Rob

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