ralink rt2500 freezes computer reinstall new version?????

onthefritz · 02-09-2006, 12:12 AM

I am running Mandriva 2006 (free) and I would like to uninstall the Ralink rt2500 driver and install the new version. I have found that the driver that comes with Mandriva 2006 has a but and freezes some systems. I am having this problem. after about 30 minutes of being connected the system freezes.

I need help uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling the newest drivers.

onthefritz · 02-10-2006, 11:18 AM

Can anyone help me uninstall the drivers that come with Mandriva 2006????

rickh · 02-10-2006, 11:35 AM

I don't know a 'Mandriva' way, but I would probably just do # locate rt2500, then delete every file and directory that showed up. You might be able to delete some of it with a command something like rpm -e rt2500-source. (That's assuming Mandriva uses rpm.)

onthefritz · 02-11-2006, 02:03 PM

Yes, Mandriva uses RPM's. When I tried to delete some of the files it would not let me. And I was logged in as root!! It would not let me delete the folder
/sys/module/rt2500
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/rt2500

It told me access denied.

I downloaded the CVS tarball from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads

When I tried to do a make it gave me this...

Quote:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-12mdk'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-12mdk/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_main.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/mlme.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/connect.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/sync.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/assoc.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/auth.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/auth_rsp.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_data.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_init.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/sanity.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_wep.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/wpa.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/md5.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_tkip.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rtmp_info.o
CC [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/eeprom.o
LD [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rt2500.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rt2500.mod.o
LD [M] /home/fritzfreund/wireless/rt2500-cvs-2006020922/Module/rt2500.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-12mdk'