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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