Networking :: Can't get ralink rt2500 card working



I've been trying to hookup my Thinkpad to my wireless network using ndiswrapper, so far without success. One problem is that although cardreader recognizes my wireless card (an E-Tech wgpc03, uses the Ralink Rt2500 chipset), but that the card doesn't seem to be active, i.e. the leds aren't on. Does anyone have any pointers how to activate the card? I've tried "iwpriv wlan0 ndis_reset" (tip from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Tips) but that gives a message "no private ioctls".

Installing the driver goes smoothly enough. I've tried the win98, win2k and winxp versions, installing them from a terminal window directly from the program directory. ndiswrapper -l shows hardware present. But running "iwconfig wlan0" produces an error, no such device present. Any ideas?
Have you tried

iwconfig eth0

or ifconfig to see what else is available?  I'm hip shooting.
Quote (ckx @ April 11 2006,16:06)
I've been trying to hookup my Thinkpad to my wireless network using ndiswrapper, so far without success. One problem is that although cardreader recognizes my wireless card (an E-Tech wgpc03, uses the Ralink Rt2500 chipset), but that the card doesn't seem to be active, i.e. the leds aren't on. Does anyone have any pointers how to activate the card? I've tried "iwpriv wlan0 ndis_reset" (tip from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Tips) but that gives a message "no private ioctls".

Installing the driver goes smoothly enough. I've tried the win98, win2k and winxp versions, installing them from a terminal window directly from the program directory. ndiswrapper -l shows hardware present. But running "iwconfig wlan0" produces an error, no such device present. Any ideas?

i use the drive from www.ralinktech.com
but it would be good if DSL supported it out of the box
I compiled a module from sourcecode which can be found on the Ralink website. Try that.
Quote (bigpilot @ April 12 2006,12:15)
I compiled a module from sourcecode which can be found on the Ralink website. Try that.

No luck so far. I've installed gcc1.dsl, gnu-utils.dsl and kernelsource.dsl. ./Configure produces an error, "-lt: unary operator expected". More serious perhaps is that make produces the error "cc: Command not found".  Are there other modules I should install? I've been trying the driver from ralink BTW, RT2500-Linux-STA-1.2.6.4. What next?
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