IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or not, but I am using of course F37. Now there is some nice source code and such with these drivers for this USB wifi antenna; but I just want to load a driver and go at it. I can't even get online now via linux. Does anyone know of where they can get access to these drivers already precompiled and ready to go? They are called I suspect RT2870.o or more like RT2870.ko. I can't seem to find anything, and the docs with the driver source seem vague to me and I just don't feel like compiling right now, I just want to go online.
THX
B
On 2/12/23 19:35, Bill Cunningham wrote:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or not, but I am using of course F37. Now there is some nice source code and such with these drivers for this USB wifi antenna; but I just want to load a driver and go at it. I can't even get online now via linux. Does anyone know of where they can get access to these drivers already precompiled and ready to go? They are called I suspect RT2870.o or more like RT2870.ko. I can't seem to find anything, and the docs with the driver source seem vague to me and I just don't feel like compiling right now, I just want to go online.
You can't just download Linux drivers like that. There's a reason for having akmods. The kernel module has to exactly match the kernel, so unless someone is compiling that driver for the Fedora kernels, you can't use it without compiling it yourself.
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename: /lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
Ralf
Ok, I see. That looks like them. Do you just use insmod?
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename:
/lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
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Am 13.02.23 um 14:08 schrieb Bill C:
Ok, I see. That looks like them. Do you just use insmod?
Probably - Definitely something worth trying.
However, in my understanding, the driver should be autoloaded if it detects a suitable device.
May-be the usb id of your device doesn't match with one of those the driver claims to support (cf. "alias" in modinfo rt2800usb)? In this case, filing a BZ and patching the kernel sources would likely be appropriate.
Ralf
When I use these tools I get nothing. I ran insmod, that would not install anything. I was thinking there are a bunch of dependencies needed. I must need to install more packages or I will try the live workstation later.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename:
/lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
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On 13 Feb 2023, at 19:12, Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
When I use these tools I get nothing. I ran insmod, that would not install anything. I was thinking there are a bunch of dependencies needed. I must need to install more packages or I will try the live workstation later.
I have always used modprobe not insmod. I wondered why and RTFM'ed and found this in the insmod man page.
"insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(8) instead, which is more clever and can handle module dependencies."
Does modprobe get you further?
Barry
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius <rc040203@freenet.de mailto:rc040203@freenet.de> wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename: /lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
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insmod is the original low level way to do it and you need the full path and module filename.
modprobe knows the correct kernel and knows where all modules are supposed to be install so should just work(assuming a depmod was run to build the name -> filename mappings).
dmesg | grep -i rt28 and see if it finds a device.
if it does then "ip link show"
if it does not work do a lsusb and return that output. the ID xxxx:xxxx needs to be shown in the modinfo as an alias, if not the module does not see the device as something it is a driver for.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 3:34 PM Barry Scott barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 13 Feb 2023, at 19:12, Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
When I use these tools I get nothing. I ran insmod, that would not install anything. I was thinking there are a bunch of dependencies needed. I must need to install more packages or I will try the live workstation later.
I have always used modprobe not insmod. I wondered why and RTFM'ed and found this in the insmod man page.
"insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(8) instead, which is more clever and can handle module dependencies."
Does modprobe get you further?
Barry
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename: /lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
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I know I have used depmod -a and it searches for some time. My system is broken though obviously, I used find to go through lib/modules and there was no driver that everyone else can find. Specifically the rt2xxxx driver.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 4:34 PM Barry Scott barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 13 Feb 2023, at 19:12, Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
When I use these tools I get nothing. I ran insmod, that would not install anything. I was thinking there are a bunch of dependencies needed. I must need to install more packages or I will try the live workstation later.
I have always used modprobe not insmod. I wondered why and RTFM'ed and found this in the insmod man page.
"insmod is a trivial program to insert a module into the kernel. Most users will want to use modprobe(8) instead, which is more clever and can handle module dependencies."
Does modprobe get you further?
Barry
On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, 7:29 AM Ralf Corsépius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham:
IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers
or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename:
/lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
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On Feb 14, 2023, at 11:42, Bill C bill.cu1234@gmail.com wrote:
I know I have used depmod -an and it searches for some time. My system is broken though obviously, I used find to go through lib/modules and there was no driver that everyone else can find. Specifically the rt2xxxx driver.
If you have the kernel-modules package, you should have a rt2800usb.ko.xz.
-- Jonathan Billings
On Feb 13, 2023, at 07:29, Ralf Corsépius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Am 13.02.23 um 04:35 schrieb Bill Cunningham: IDK if anyone is familiar with this series of legacy products/drivers or
I am not familiar with these drivers, but AFAIS, they seem to be in Fedora's kernel:
# modinfo rt2800usb filename: /lib/modules/6.1.10-200.fc37.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800usb.ko.xz license: GPL firmware: rt2870.bin description: Ralink RT2800 USB Wireless LAN driver. ...
Make sure you also have an up to date “linux-firmware” package, which includes the required /usr/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin.xz.
-- Jonathan Billings