Dell Aspire 4730 Wireless not working.

[bricktop]

I am new to linux but not frustrated this problem was solved by waterhead and jayd512 congratulations.
I have not listed the dmesg output because its huge but it contains the same firmware errors if that is helpful.
The issue is I have to run widows download the packages and install them into linux. And have yet to make one succesfull install.

Thank you for your help and look forward to have fully funtional Fedora 10.

Lspci

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink Device [1814:0781]

lsmod

Module Size Used by
vfat 12672 1
fat 42784 1 vfat
fuse 49436 2
i915 53380 2
drm 158260 3 i915
sco 12932 2
bridge 43668 0
stp 6148 1 bridge
bnep 14848 2
l2cap 21504 3 bnep
bluetooth 48608 5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc 155924 3
ip6t_REJECT 7296 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 15864 2
ip6table_filter 6400 1
ip6_tables 14736 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 230132 24 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
cpufreq_ondemand 9996 1
acpi_cpufreq 12172 1
dm_multipath 17164 0
uinput 10624 0
snd_hda_intel 351124 3
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 30364 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9600 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48576 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10124 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42496 0
snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss
i2c_i801 12048 0
snd_pcm 65924 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
usb_storage 82440 1
i2c_core 21396 2 drm,i2c_i801
pcspkr 6272 0
sdhci_pci 10624 0
sdhci 17540 1 sdhci_pci
jmb38x_ms 12292 0
snd_timer 22024 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
joydev 12736 0
snd_page_alloc 11016 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
r8169 32132 0
mmc_core 43676 1 sdhci
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
memstick 12060 1 jmb38x_ms
snd 50616 16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,sn d_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer,snd_hwdep
mii 8192 1 r8169
soundcore 9416 1 snd
video 20244 0
wmi 9768 0
output 6528 1 video


dmesg | grep firmware

firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0d

uname -r

2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686

[drinster]

Hi am having the same problem and i just dont know what to do...
new to Linux too and recently installed Fedora 10 on a DELL XPS M1330. JUST CANT GET WI-FI TO WORK!!! if you do get it working please fill me in. Many thanks

[bricktop]

We may have different hardware so the fixes may be different by going through each of the steps on starting a new thread. That is the only way to verify the hardware/software

Good luck

[bricktop]

I dont understand these results but i hope you you might


michael@localhost ~]$ rpm -i /media/disk/kmod-rt2860-1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3.i686.rpm
warning: /media/disk/kmod-rt2860-1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 49c8885a
error: Failed dependencies:
kmod-rt2860-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 >= 1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3 is needed by kmod-rt2860-1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3.i686
[michael@localhost ~]$ rpm -i /media/disk/kmod-rt2860-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.8.i686.rpm
warning: /media/disk/kmod-rt2860-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.8.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 49c8885a
error: Failed dependencies:
kmod-rt2860 >= 1.8.0.0-1.fc10.8 is needed by kmod-rt2860-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.8.i686
rt2860-kmod-common >= 1.8.0.0 is needed by kmod-rt2860-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.8.i686
[michael@localhost ~]$ rpm -i /media/disk/rt2860-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.noarch.rpm
warning: /media/disk/rt2860-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 49c8885a
error: Failed dependencies:
rt2860-kmod >= 1.8.0.0 is needed by rt2860-1.8.0.0-1.fc10.noarch
[michael@localhost ~]$

[bricktop]

I got The dependency issues fixed so now what Driver?
Also after issuing the install command how to I verify the install?


Thank you

[jayd512]

Have you followed the links that waterhead provided in my thread?
This one was very helpful: Download - Linux Wireless

Try the different drivers. The one that worked for me was rt2500pci - Linux Wireless, but YMMV.