Gentlemen,
You are making this thing to hard. Make you a CD copy (iso) of Puppy
Linux. Boot off of it and you should see your internal or external
drives at the bottom of the screen. Click on the drive and read the
contents. I copy the contents of drives to external usb drives
formatted to NTFS all the time. Puppy is your friend to diagnose
hardware/software problems. Great little OS to carry on that thumb
drive in your pocket.....just like a Swiss Army knife. Hope this helps.

Jim Brewer

I'll have to try that just to further my Linux education.
I have installed half a dozen different Linux distros recently looking
for the one I like the best.

So far Mint with Mate wins if it don't crash :) It does everything
including
running Cannon movies with a rare codec out of the box.

CentOS seems to be the most stable but it does not do a lot of
things like codecs, file type support and wireless module support.
I have it reading and writing NTFS however and I am using it hardwired to
the cable modem.

Paul Lamar


Open a terminal.
Type lspci in that terminal.
Send me the result.

Include the brand and model of your laptop.

Mark LaPierre

OK Asus A54C

Paul Lamar


I think I have found the right driver package for your wireless chip. I
need one more bit of information to verify that I have the right
package. I'm looking for the part that is in square brackets at the end
of this:

"PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168]"

Please type this in a terminal and send the result.

lspci -nn | grep -i net

[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lspci -nn | grep -i net
00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] *[1106:3065]* (rev 78)
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$

- Mark LaPierre

OK Here it is.

[root@localhost paul]# lspci -nn | grep -i net
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit
Network Connection [8086:10ce]
[root@localhost paul]#


Paul Lamar




No, I need the one from the laptop. It's the line that says:

02:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390 Wireless etc....

Judging from the titles of the screen shots you sent it would appear
that the wired Intel Ethernet adapter is part of your desktop machine.

The wireless controller line starts with "02:00.0 Network controller."

The wired Ethernet adapters are named "Ethernet controller."

Mark LaPierre


Ok here is a screen shot

Paul Lamar


Go to System/Administration/Add Remove Software.

Put kmod-rt5390 in the search box and click the [Find] button.

Install the kmod-rt5390sta-2.5.0.3-1.el6.elrepo package.

It will require the correct firmware package which it will install along
with it automagically. A short reboot later and your wireless should
work. You may still have to configure it through network manager if
your using that, or manually if you choose. You set up the wired
connection so I figure you can configure the wireless on too.


-Mark LaPierre


No results were found. I don't need the wireless on the desktop anyway
as I can
connect to the cable modem with the Ethernet wire. That is the only way to
administer the cable modem for wireless pass words and power out.

Paul Lamar



Looks like you need to enable the elrepo.
Instructions here:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

After you do that the drivers should appear when you search.

Mark LaPierre

Which one?
I don't see it for CentOS 6.

Paul Lamar

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