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Topic: WMP54G v4 Drivers, Can anyone compile the drivers for me?

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Landon

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Posted: Dec. 21 2005,02:25

After mucking about with ndiswrapper, kernel upgrades, the official driver I've finally decided to ask for help...

Can anyone compile this (I'm going to use the default kernel instead of mucking about :P )

Ralink Drivers

Landon

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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,16:44

Ahhhh, this is killing me :angry:

zubalove

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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,19:48

I know. I just feel like 2.0 crushed a lot of peoples wireless configuration. I moved back to 1.5 until I have enough time to learn how to get this thing working again.

mort

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,23:30

This may be a bit of help.

When I loaded SuSe 9.3 the Linksys WMP54S v4 worked right out of the box. Unfortunalty it was next to my Hauppague 350 card. The heat cooked the wireless card in short order. I bought another Linksys WMP54S V2 which uses a Broadcom chip instead of a Ralink.

The Broadcom (V2) is about 2 inchs wide and the Ralink (V4) is about 1 1/4 inchs wide.

I now have my WMP54S V2 working with the ndiswapper and bcmwl5.inf and .sys under DSL 2.1

SuSe 9.3 must have a native driver for Ralink chip in WMP54s V4 as it doesn't need the ndiswapper and is configured automatically.

I don't know what the linux driver file for the WMP54S V4 would look like in Suse maybe a .ko or if it would work with DSL. If you have any ideas I will look for it.

Mort
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Posted: Jan. 07 2006,15:02

Landon,
Install gnu-utils.dsl, then you can compile the Ralink driver(s) yourself ... but don't compile the "official" Ralink version, get the independent version from
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
Download the rt2500 source, stable or CVS, but don't download the rt2x00 source - this is for 2.6 kernels only.

The end-product will be a single module, /lib/modules/2.4.31/extra/rt2500.o which has no other dependencies, so you can copy it into /home/dsl and load it like this -
insmod /home/dsl/rt2500.o

There is another forum member currently asking for help with the WMP54G v4, so perhaps you can help each other.

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