How Install RT2500 driver in DSL?Forum: Networking Topic: How Install RT2500 driver in DSL? started by: ingegomez Posted by ingegomez on June 08 2006,07:47
Hi...i got a little problem... I know what WiFi cards can be used in DSL, and my MSI CB54G2 WiFi Cardbus (with RT2500 chipset) is not in the list... Well.. i tried to install my WiFi Interface by Driver Installing, i got the RT2500 driver source, but i cant compile them because the "make" command is not recognized... well, with MyDSL repository i get the gcc and the gcc is installed but i cant compile anyway because when i put "make" bash tell me errors in configuration or something... I need Help to install this Driver (RT2500) in Damm Small Linux... or tell me: exist any .dsl package with the RT2500 Driver support? can anybody helpme? Thanks!!! [Another thing... i got a Zonet ZEW2501 USB WiFi Interface too but this is with Zydas ZD1211 Chipset... its the same case of the other card because i got the ZD1211 Driver source but i cant compile the drivers... its in .dsl package any support? or something?] Posted by dowen on June 09 2006,00:37
hello there,
have you tried ndiswrapper?... Dan Posted by heather on June 09 2006,04:04
Dowen,How the heck do you get the RT2500 working with ndiswrapper? And why isn't there a box labeled "WPA Key" in the DSLPanel GUI for ndiswrapper? (There's a box for WEP key.) And how does anyone install the RT2500 driver in DSL? Or in any Linux, for that matter? And how do you compile the driver from source under DSL when there's a forest of unresolved dependencies? And why does DSL (and Linux) know about the device wlan0 but not ra0 (which is what the Ralink drivers call the RT2500 device)? And why does the name matter? Any why isn't there a .dsl extension for the RT2500? Why is it so hard to incorporate the driver in DSL (and Linux in general) when the source code is provided by the manufacturer? And why doesn't MyDSL work (still, in 3.0RC2)? And why doesn't MyDSL give the user any feedback about whether it worked or not, or whether anything even actually happened? And why, when the RT2500 is the most common wireless chipset in the world, and when there's source code available for the driver, and when it is small enough to fit in hardly any space at all, is there no support for the chip set in DSL? Or any Linux? And why, even though no actual software needs to be written, can we not put the frackin' code in the distros, for heaven's sake??? Inquiring minds want to know. H. Posted by roberts on June 09 2006,06:27
Same thread every few weeks.A simple search results in the simple < answer > And all that effort venting... Posted by dowen on June 09 2006,10:14
Heather,
I've been using ndiswrapper in ATerminal, I stumbled across a HOWTO guide a week or so back. Link:< LinuxQuestions > Whilst it talks you through a different Chipset, simply use the rt2500.inf, in place for the driver they use. Once installed this way, you can run the usual wlan config (using a WEP key mind). Im still trying to get wpasupplicant to work on my computer... Hope this helps Dan Posted by starcannon on June 16 2006,19:17
I have compiled my own driver for this card for kernel 2.4.26 and a boot script that loads the driver and logs me into my DHCP WEP network.I'd be willing to share my file just let me know. Posted by vattek on June 18 2006,14:49
i managed to install my integrated rt2500 wlan card with the help of th belkin guide -sweetmy laptop has a button to turn on the wlan, which just doesnt seem to be working even now. question is: how can i make it turn my card on.:rock: thx Posted by ingegomez on June 18 2006,17:54
How Use NDISWRAPPER for the RT2500:First, get the RT2500 Driver for WINDOWS 2000 (the XP Driver causes PC Freeze)... In your case vattek The driver can be found in the official page of your NOTEBOOK (if is HP, search in hp.com, if is toshiba search in thosiba.com or something), search for the Windows 2000 driver... Now... Do this: 1.- Copy the Folder Windows 2000 Driver (in some cases the drivers are in a folder called Win2k) to your "/" root directory in damm small linux... "/win2k" <--- this is the view after copy in the root directory... (all this need do as ROOT user) 2.- Change to the DSL User and do this: sudo ndiswrapper -i /win2k/RT2500.inf (if the .inf is called RT500, maybe the .inf name is diferent, exemple m2500.inf, or other name). 3.- sudo ndiswrapper -l This should display the message "Installed ndis drivers: rt2500 driver present, hardware present" 4.- sudo ndiswrapper -m 5.- sudo depmod -a 6.- sudo modprobe ndiswrapper 7.- sudo ifconfig -a with this, the wlan0 appears in the ifconfig list 8.- Now, just configure the card with the NETCARD CONFIG in system tools or something, i dont remember where is that, but is in the main menu of the damm small linux... Posted by vattek on June 18 2006,19:34
thxbut i could only find an xp driver, and depmode -a had no affect as I booted from a pendrive and the says the filesystem is read-only ifconfig showed wlan0 so it worked nevertheless, altough i made it that far even the last time i ve tried but i still cant turn my adapter on, the goddamn led just doesnt light |