Hi,
I'm a newbie and have recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on a Averatec 3270 that has a Ralink RT2500 802.1.1 Cardbus Reference Card. Everything with this new install is fine with the exception of wireless. I have searched the forums and have followed the instructions from others.

I have moved ACX 100 to another directory

I installed the kernel source for kernel version 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp from disk 3

There is a link in /usr/src/ to kernel

Then check
#iwconfig
lo no wirless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
sit0 no wireless extensions

Download ndiswrapper-1.1.tar.gz

# make install

I get this on one line: NOTE: Windows driver configuration file format has changed since 1.0-rc2. You must re-install Windows drivers if they were installed before. (Don't know if it means anything)

Download WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip

# ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.inf
Installing rt2500
cp: cannot stat `Rt2500.inf': No such file or directory

# ndiswrapper -i /home/corey/driver/Win2K/Rt2500.inf
rt2500 is already installed. Use -e to remove it

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
rt2500 invalid driver!

# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/misc/ndiswrapper.ko): Operation not permitted

From what I've read at ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation]ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Installation
I have the correct driver. Can anyone see something that I may be missing?

Since I haven't gotten a responce here, I am trying this post (can't create hyperlinks cause I've gotta post a couple more times :^) )http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=309077 and am stuck at step 6. If you could please refer to that post your help is greatly appreciated.

Guess I can post a hyperlink!

I am still having issues and can't get past the steps I posted above. Any help?

Update: So I went to the control center and found the RT2500 driver and ran the run config tool. My wireless card worked for about 15 seconds until my system froze. Now I can't even boot up as it freezes after line:

Bringing up interface eth0: Failed

Help?

Hi. Good to see that there are Mandrake-on-Averatec users. (Me too!!)
Seems that you're not getting much response. Have you tried www.averatecforums.com ?

I don't know if it helps, but here's what I did. And it's working very well.

• I have Mandrake 10.1 running on AV3250 with RaLink wireless card.
• I installed ndiswrapper from their original website (ndiswrapper-1.1.tar.gz).
• I downloaded RLink RT2500 driver (WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip).
• I installed the driver for Win2K.

It seems you did the same thing. (I'm sorry I don't remember the detailed steps that I followed.)
Did you make sure that your laptop has RaLink wireless card?

Sorry that I can't help you with the booting up problem.

did you unzip WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip?
try
mkdir foo
unzip -d foo WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip
cd foo
ndiswrapper -i *.inf
look around for a winXP driver if you are using ndiswrapper
if you got that link from the ndiswraper page, it is probably the only one in
the file

I get this on one line: NOTE: Windows driver configuration file format has changed since 1.0-rc2. You must re-install Windows drivers if they were installed before. (Don't know if it means anything)

that doesn't apply to you

if you get stuck on making the driver it means there is something with your kernel source. try installing a pristine kernel fromkernel.org. after rebooting with the new kernel there should be no problem in making the rt2500 driver.
as i experienced myself Mandrake includes a driver for rt2500 but something isbuggy, you usually end up losing the conecting of freezing your computer.
as for ndiswrapper, i'm not a fun of it, as long as there is such an awsome linux driver available.