[NCLUG] Fedora 6 and the RaLink rt2500 wireless card

[jeff]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:41:02 -0700
> davbraley at comcast.net (David Braley) wrote:
>> You are right! It is a path thing. If I "sudo /sbin/ifup ra0" (to
>> start my wireless card), put in my password, it works! So specifying
>> the full path does work. Why does Fedora leave out /sbin
>> and /usr/sbin for users?
> 
> The thought was the regular users wouldn't ever need to run commands
> from there, and only root would need it. I think that's not really
> correct anymore... hopefully they will change the default someday. 
> 
> There was talk about changing it before fc6, but it didn't happen... 

I'd love to see it, but I doubt it will happen.  Just `su -` for now. Here's my 
two bits I added to that thread...

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-May/msg00222.html

The rt2500 driver isn't ever going to be in the main kernel. The successor 
rt2x00 will be, and will support "all" the rt* cards (though the newer ones 
will require firmware like Intel ipw cards do now). The new drivers are using 
some new wireless framework which is destined for the mainline kernel, but 
hasn't arrived yet.

Here's a bugzilla about trying to get an rt2x00 kmod into Fedora Extras:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202528

-Jeff