I got my F5D7000 rt2500 card working very easily. Unfortunately, there's a little problem with a broken antenna.

So, I got a LinkSys WMP54G (rt61) card to replace it. None of my rt2500 settings are any help. There just seems to be a raft of new config files, and an entirely new way to configure stuff. I'm lost.

Any advice? It can't be this hard.

A) remove the old modules/driver

1. go to /lib/modules/{current Kernel]
2. in subdirectory /extra/
delete the module
3. do "depmod -a" to reset module dependencies to match new module list
4. in /etc/modprobe.conf remove all references to ra0, and rt61 by placing a "#" at the beginning of the lines referencing these items or deleting the lines.

now,

B) download the daily cvs tarball from serialmonkey. rt61-cvs-daily.tar.gz.
C) unpack, read the readme, make, make install as per the instructions.
D) re-boot
E) ifconfig eth0 down (to bring down your eth0 card if you have one)
F) ifconfig ra0 up (to bring up your wireless interface)
G) dhcpcd ra0 (to configure it)

you can set other parameters with iwconfig.


Bare in mind that these are legacy drivers provided by serialmonkey. Since Ralink have made the source to their drivers open source, serialmonkey are currently in the process of re-developing the drivers. These are a complete rewrite of the legacy drivers, and (will, eventually) provide a more complete & less buggy driver. You can download and try them for beta testing/development (rtx00-cvs). I had allot of trouble with these drivers, so for now i have returned to the rt61-cvs-daily driver.

hope this helps, but i am very much new to wireless and linux, so i apologize if my explanation is limited.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply. I can see that there's a lot that I don't know about the way that Linux loads modules. I still have the RT61 card, and will try out this technique when I put it into its next home. In the meantime, I found a duct tape solution (literally!) to my broken antenna.

- Dan