No networking in Classmate

[davidjim]

Soas doesn't identify the wireless card of the intel classmate.

[SeanDaly]

My Gen1 Classmate (Olidata JumPc 7" screen 2 Gb SSD) successfully burned its own SoaS snapshot last night with Fedora LiveUSB Creator under Windows, then booted Sugar from it and with wired LAN connection joined the jabber testing session. However, all local wifi networks were shown in the Neighborhood View; AFAICT wireless card recognized.

What generation, make & model of Intel Classmate?

[davidjim]

It is an Intel Classmate Third Generation 7", I've also done that, but it doesn't detect the wireless, its a 802.11 USB Wireless LAN Card (internal)

[davidjim]

please, somebody post something, I believe this is critical.

[SeanDaly]

 http://www.classmatepc.com/where-to-buy/convertible/tech-specs/

The Gen3 Classmate is the "Convertible", with 8.9" 1024x600 swivel touchscreen, is yours that one?
Gen1 "Clamshell" is with 7" 800x480 screen (some Control Panel parms unavailable due to this small screen see #868), Gen2 "Clamshell" is with 8.9" 1024x600 screen.

[davidjim]

Thanks!, mine is the one with gravity sensors.

[RafaelOrtiz]

It seems that the networking in the CM2 works but in the CM3 or convertible doesn't.
i don't know the wireless card on the CM3 so i can't comment but it might need some additional tuning under linux in order to work.

[davidjim]

The card that de Classmate Gen 3 uses is a 802.11n Wi-Fi via Ralink RT3070 (USB), you can see the properties in:  http://techreport.com/articles.x/16496/2

[davidjim]

i'm kind of lost here, i've found the sources of the rt3070 driver for linux, but i can't build it in the sugar's terminal (soas), i yum the gcc, make, and kernel-devel, but the last one is from a newer kernel, i dont see or know the correct way to change the kernel version that soas choose to boot.

[daveb]

Using Soas-strawberry
Try this in terminal

su -

su -c 'rpm -Uvh  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm  http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

yum install kmod-rt3070

Then reboot. The wireless should be detected and work.

[davidjim]

hi dav eb, i did what you said, reboot and nothing. Also tried with the akmod-rt3070, but nothing. Am i missing some instruction to bring up the wireless?

[daveb]

Worked on this in IRC.

Fedora or rpmfusion has a newer kernel. Its picking that up and installing the wireless driver for the newer kernel.

You can work around this by specifying the kernel when calling yum ie:

yum install kmod-rt3070-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586

This gets the one that matches your kernel.

[davidjim]

thanks!! that solved the problem =), can you add this driver to the next release?

[wadeb]

Not Sugar milestone related. Feel free to add a SoaS milestone if appropriate. Sounds like that package ought to make it into our kickstart if it hasn't already.

BTW you can always do this to get the right version of a kernel package:

yum install kmod-rt3080-uname -r

Or for kernel-devel:

yum install kernel-devel-uname -r

[sdz]

There's nothing we can do about this, since we're following Fedora's policies concerning the inclusion of software. In case this gets into the official kernel, it'll be supported though. Until then, manually installing the kernel mods from RPM Fusion is probably the individual way to go.

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS