Networking :: no wlan0 device - wmp54g card

To compile you need gcc1.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl from
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/system/

Thanks - I'll have to round them up so I'm a little more prepared for when the next problem undoubtly comes around!

I'm about at a dead end, I think. Never did ndiswrapper to work. Tried the linux drivers (thanks to tempestuous for compiling them and sending them to me) and at least using the rt2500 driver, iwconfig could create the ra0 interface. all is good until I try the "pump -i ra0" which results in a total system freeze-up.
Interestingly, while the system is working, "ifconfig -a" shows ra0 configured with an interrupt of 10, however "cat /proc/interrupts" doesn't list 10 as being used for anything.
I thought I might extract some diagnostic using sysrq, but once the system is frozen even that does no good - if it is writing any output I have no way of getting at it...
"ifconfig ra0 up" results in the same locked up system as pump does.
Tried to configure with a static ip, but that also locks up the system.
So unless someone has more ideas to try, I'll leave this as a dead end until I either get a different wireless card or stick in a ethernet card. I do appreciate the help and suggestions folks have offered!

to compile the linux version of the rt2500 driver youll need to install gnu-utils.dsl and gcc1.dsl and type the command

ln -s gcc /usr/bin/cc

to redirect cc commands to gcc. once youve done this it will compile and then in the Modules dir you compiled from type
insmod rt2500.o
./load

and your card should activate

it works for me on my lappie but i still have a crash issue.

That's because dsl has a SMP kernel, and the driver does not support SMP.

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