Fedora 15 how do I find my wireless hardware

wiiija · 6 Jun 2011 at 12:38

Hi all,

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now but thought I would try Fedora 15, I really like Gnome 3 but I have an issue of my realtek wireless not being seen.

How do I find out exactly which wireless card it is in fedora? Bit dissapointed that it wasn't plug and play as per ubuntu/mint. If I can get it installed I would for sure stay with this as its rapid!

Cheers,
Sean

wiiija · 6 Jun 2011 at 12:48

Well I found the terminal command to view wireless hardware but as I feared it just states 0 found. Kind of put a spoiler on me using this distro then

SMN · 6 Jun 2011 at 13:27

If its realtek it should "just work" - mine runs realtek fine (granted in Ubuntu). Can you not install Madwifi drivers for it? try using "module-assistant" to install it:

http://pkgs.org/package/module-assistant

Literally install (do it via YUM if its available), then run "module-assistant" from command line and away you go.

wiiija · 6 Jun 2011 at 14:33

Yeh it is Realtek and it does indeed run fine and dandy in Ubuntu and Mint, fedora just doesnt see it at all which is a pain. I will have a look and see what I can do, thank you

jack.mitchell · 6 Jun 2011 at 15:13

If you do 'lsusb' and 'lspci' in a terminal then it should list the chipset of the wireless card. Google this plus fedora and it should throw up how to get it working.