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Topic: Can't get ralink rt2500 card working

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bufalo

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Posted: April 14 2006,11:06

Quote (ckx @ April 13 2006,15:21)

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?

strange i also get the cc error in make.

i was able to configure it in slackware but dsl does produce the error you mention

ckx

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Posted: April 16 2006,17:37

Quote (bufalo @ April 14 2006,07:06)

strange i also get the cc error in make.

Well, I managed to compile the driver but it still doesn't work. I changed the line of the Makefile from "CC := cc" to "CC := gcc" and then I could get it to compile. It still wouldn't work though and now, if I run "ifconfig -a" the shell seems to hang. I get no output and ctrl-c doesn't work. Maybe I messed up?

I used the Makefile from Ralink for a 2.4.x kernel. Could that be causing the problems, since DSL is patched with parts of the 2.6 kernel? I also used "kernelsource.dsl" which may not have everything I need. Configure couldn't find the Makefile for linux so I added a link to linux/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile. Well, it was enough to get the driver to compile, but looks like it's not enough to get it to work. But the fact that ifconfig hangs doesn't bode well

Fordie

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Posted: April 17 2006,08:01

Weird. I have been using Ralink's XP driver from their website (and initially from the supplied driver on the CD) for yonkers now via Ndiswrapper with a CNet CWP-854 PCI card.

PM me if you want to have my driver.

bigpilot

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Posted: April 21 2006,15:35

I also installed kernel-headers but had no problems compiling.

I still haven't got my connection up and running, even though the card works fine and I can even connect to the network. It's just that my card won't acquire an IP through DHCP for some reason.

The DHCP client software ('pump') doesn't seem to work for the card for some reason. In the log I only see: 'Broadcasting DISCOVER' and that's it. When I do a 'ifup ra0' it simply returns: 'Operation failed' which seems to come from the 'pump' DHCP client but I have no idea what the problem is.