Wireless installation in Fedora 12

[jayd512]

Hello all!

I just upgraded to Fedora 12 with a fresh install, and have a little question here.
I have a wireless card, 04:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860. In Fedora 10, I simply downloaded the proper firmware from the Ralink site, compiled and did

modprobe rt2860sta

All was good after that. Now, inF12, I get the error:

WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d

I did check this thread and followed the instructions. I get error:

Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686 is needed by package kmod-rt2860-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686-2.1.2.0-3.fc12.19.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates-testing)

Any tips?

dmesg | grep firmware
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0d
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-0d

uname -r
2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686.PAE

Forgot lsmod:

lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   48375  2 
sunrpc                160134  1 
cpufreq_ondemand        6993  2 
acpi_cpufreq            6535  0 
ip6t_REJECT             3394  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      14859  2 
ip6table_filter         2227  1 
ip6_tables              9409  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  223738  28 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
uinput                  5244  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek   197298  1 
snd_hda_intel          19763  2 
snd_hda_codec          59921  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4868  1 snd_hda_codec
sdhci_pci               5200  0 
snd_seq                42811  0 
snd_seq_device          5031  1 snd_seq
iTCO_wdt                7862  0 
r8169                  29749  0 
rfkill                 13401  1 
snd_pcm                61044  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
sdhci                  15396  1 sdhci_pci
jmb38x_ms               9706  0 
i2c_i801                8337  0 
mmc_core               51268  1 sdhci
iTCO_vendor_support     2023  1 iTCO_wdt
memstick                7460  1 jmb38x_ms
mii                     3510  1 r8169
joydev                  7408  0 
snd_timer              15541  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    46576  12 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               4863  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          6125  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
wmi                     5620  0 
dm_multipath           12324  0 
i915                  239486  2 
drm_kms_helper         22251  1 i915
drm                   135451  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4073  1 i915
i2c_core               21732  5 i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video                  16522  1 i915
output                  1605  1 video

[reed9]

WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d

This is just what is says. /etc/modprobe.conf is deprecated. All module config files must be in /etc/modprobe.d/ now and the filename must end in .conf.

If you had something in /etc/modprobe.conf you can move the file to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686 is needed by package kmod-rt2860-2.6.32.9-67.fc12.i686-2.1.2.0-3.fc12.19.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates-testing)

This package was built against kernel 2.6.32.9-67, but your running kernel is 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686.PAE. You need a package built against this kernel.

This might help:
HOWTO: Native rt2860, rt2870 & rt3070 wireless drivers for Fedora - FedoraForum.org

[jayd512]

I'll try the links instructions when I get home tonight...
Until then, I have a question. Do you have any info on what the convention should be for just adding something to modprobe.d
I like being able to edit config files, but this is a little bit of a change for me.

BTW... I never actually looked at the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf...
Never really had any reason to...

I guess that's one of the little details that might be biting me in the @$$

[reed9]

Until then, I have a question. Do you have any info on what the convention should be for just adding something to modprobe.d
I like being able to edit config files, but this is a little bit of a change for me.

The two usual files here are /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


The first for various module options, for example, my laptop's headphone jack doesn't work without adding options snd-hda-intel model=eapd probe_mask=1 position_fix=1. The second, obviously, for blacklisted modules.

As far as I know, that's the convention, but it isn't required by the system. You can name the files however you want, so long as they end in .conf. You could do a separate file for every module you wanted blacklisted, if you wanted.

And then depending on the distro, there is also /etc/modules, which forces a module to load, if for some reason it wasn't being autoloaded. At least, that is for Debian based distros. Arch does it different, not sure about Fedora and like.

Blacklisting modules is as simple as adding

blacklist <module name>

Module options are just

options <module option>

Ubuntu Manpage: modprobe.d, modprobe.conf - Configuration directory/file for modprobe

[jayd512]

Well, I decided on a work around for now...
I installed Mint. Been meaning to give it another try anyways.
I'll go after wireless in Fedora 12 again, but right now I just didn't really have time to do any real trial and error on it right now.

But thanks for the info, reed.
It'll definitely come in handy.