wimax on blag distro

[emekadavid]

I have a mediatek wimax usb card which i use for internet access on a windows system. since i changed over to linux, blag distribution, i have tried to make it run on linux but cannot get the network up. blag though registers the device.
I have a listing of some commands from my system[[lazy_dog.txt]] as attached file. Please, can anyone tell me what else i need to do that i am not doing so i can set up networking using the wimax usb card? kernel: 2.6.35.12-libre.90.fc14.i686, GNU/Linux. Blag distro.

 

[Kerms]

Whelp, I came up with a couple of things:
See if installing usb-modeswitch-data fixes it*
See if installing deb package firmware-intelwimax fixes it
Recompile NetworkManager if you use it.*

And the bad part: I've read that Mediatek has never been open source friendly, especially with their wifi.*

*
https://launchpad.net/debian/squeeze/+source/usb-modeswitch-data/+changelog
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1389268
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wimax/1478
Respectively.

 

[emekadavid]

thanks

Whelp, I came up with a couple of things:
See if installing usb-modeswitch-data fixes it*
See if installing deb package firmware-intelwimax fixes it
Recompile NetworkManager if you use it.*
i am using a fedora based distro so the .deb package cannot be downloaded.
linuxwimax.org is down when i checked. is there an alternative?
thanks a million

 

[Kerms]

linuxwimax.org is down for me too (I don't think it'll ever come back).

Reading your dump again, I really am for the usb-modeswitch; your dump says that your card is being mounted as a CD (iso9660).
This is because sometimes devices have the drivers for windows built into the device on a flash chip, and then `flips' into the main device after driver install.


(A quick google hints that fedora might have a precompiled version.)
src code:
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

 

[emekadavid]

thanks kerms. will follow the instructions for modeswitch and report back. thanks