Network Manager doesn't detect my WiFi card.

[RobLikesBrunch]

Hello,

I just installed x64 Fedora, and as the title says, NM fails to detect my WiFi card. It's an Encore ENLWI-N with a RaLink RT2800 chipset. The card does show up when I run lspci, although iwconfig yields nothing.

Not sure if this helps, but when I was running Karmic Koala, Ubuntu detected the card immediately and required no configuration.

Anyone have any ideas on how to get the card functioning? Thanks.

[rhricik]

I'm sort of a newbie myself, but if you search the repository on 'ralink', there are a bunch of akmod-rt28xx firmware drivers for the rt-28xx series of cards.

You might have to install those before the card gets noticed (that would be my guess, since lspci is picking up the card already). I have the same problem with my Broadcom wireless until I load b43 or pull down the wl-broadcom package and install it.

[RobLikesBrunch]

Originally Posted by rhricik

I'm sort of a newbie myself, but if you search the repository on 'ralink', there are a bunch of akmod-rt28xx firmware drivers for the rt-28xx series of cards.

You might have to install those before the card gets noticed (that would be my guess, since lspci is picking up the card already). I have the same problem with my Broadcom wireless until I load b43 or pull down the wl-broadcom package and install it.

I found a different driver called rt2860 in the rpmfusion repo, and it solved the problem instantly.