Problem installing usb wireless driver

[daddyjack]

Greetings all
Im rather new to linux and finally settled on this distro. i have four partitions root, swap, usr local, and home. I have tweaked out VL SOHO 5.8 final to my liking except i cannot get my wireless usb device driver installed. The USB device on question can be found here.

http://anirudhs.chaosnet.org/blog/2005.10.23.html

I have the B1 version of the device and its driver can be located here.

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

the driver in question is the RT2500USB(RT2571/RT2572) (source Code)

for the love of god i cannot "./configure" the driver.
i can skip to the "make" part but it fails.
Am I doing something wrong in the read me?

any suggestions would be greatly appreicated

cheers
jack

[bigpaws]

I downloaded the driver since I do not have this card.

The README states to change the permissions. Did you do that, if not follow below.

First as root in the command line go into the directory of the driver.

So since I have this driver in my home do this

cd RTUSB-SRC-V2.0.8.0

that will get to where you need to be then

chmod 644 *

then 

chmod 755 Configure

then 

cp Makefile.x Makefile               //Note: replace Makefile.x with your kernel ex Makefile 2.6.18.5

That should get you going in the Linux Configure area change the .x.x.x to the version number.

Now for the file that is being requested you make. This is for a Red Hat Setup. Here is a little change since the module <driver> will be loaded then go to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and at the bottom add
ifconfig rausb0 up
dhcpcd rausb0

NOTE: The Blue text are actual commands

HTH

Bigpaws

[daddyjack]

ok it makes the 2.6.20.3 file but i cannot ./configure it.

if i skip that and go to $make as the instructions indicate

make -C lib/modules/2.6.20.3/build SUBDIRS= /home/mylocal account/RT25USB-SRC-V2.0.8
0 modules
make:***/lib/modules/2.6.20.3/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make:***[all] Error 2

what am i missing

btw thank you for the quick reply.

[bigpaws]

Do you have the kernel sources installed?

If not use search for kernel sources and then install them.

Then try to do your configure.

Bigpaws

[daddyjack]

ok lets see.... gslapt updating got me the 2.6.20.7 source...not quite what i need so i did find the 2.6.20.3 kernel source  but im rather a n00b
i do not know what directory to place the source in... so i if can get some help in that area then i think i might get this problem fixed.

[rbistolfi]

You can get a vector package for your kernel from here:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-5.8/kernels/
It should be like kernel-src-2.6.xx.x-etc-etc.tlz
Then go to the location of the package, open a terminal right there and then login as root typing su and then your password. Then you can install the kernel sources typing installpkg <name_of_the_package>
Btw, what exactly happens when you try ./configure?

[salmonix]

This guy had success at least.
http://jeremydenise.net/en/node/189

Hope, that his success is not Debian related, not kernel related. The 2x00 project USB driver freezes kernel, they seem to focus on other chipped products now.
Pls. report your success or failure.
On 64bit with some 2.6.20 kernel I had no success. Note,that Ralink is not continuing the driver, the 2x00 project has no mature one.
Try their nightly tarball, and hope.

[MikeCindi]

You can also get the kernel sources for 2.6.20.3 off the install CD for 5.8 SOHO.

[salmonix]

If U have not tried the hourly CVS rt2570 driver from the 2x00 project it is time to do that.
It is a piece of good news to tell that my DLink GWL-G122 rev.b1 usb is up and running with today`s CVS driver on a 2.4.33.3 kernel, with WEP (I know.....) and at 11Mbps (much more than nothing.)

Congrat to those at 2x00.

PS: and has worked all night.

[salmonix]

Now crashed - after som 16 hours work. So, not perfect, but usable.
(U have to unload the module, and restart the whole process of setting it up.)
So it does worth downloading the CVS (and sending bugreports.)

[Nick]

Hi,
I am also fairly new to linux and was having trouble installing the driver also. I am using the driver from RaLink. After I installed the kernel source, I had no trouble(thanks bigpaws). I would like to know if I can have it install the driver on startup so I don't have to mess with it every time. I tried following the steps in the readme, but it doesn't do anything when I turn on my computer.

Thanks, Nick

[bigpaws]

If you have this working then place the commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

So: if you use for example

modprobe ralink
ifconfig ra0
dhcpcd ra0

Then add those to the above mentioned area and you should be good to
go.

After I installed the kernel source, I had no trouble(thanks bigpaws)

Anytime

Bigpaws