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Old 06-13-2005, 08:23 AM   #1
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Exclamation Problems compiling the Ralink 2500 driver.


Hi all, I'm on FC3 and just bought an Edimax EW-7128g wlan card which uses a ralink 2500 chipset. I downloaded the ralink driver from sourceforge.net. The problem is, when I run 'make' inside the module directory I get this error:

[root@localhost Module]# make
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build'
make[1]: *** No hay ninguna regla para construir el objetivo `descargas/rt2500-1.1.0/Module'. Alto.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build'
rt2500.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] Error 1


(The translation of the spanish phrase would be something like: "There is no rule to build the target 'descargas/rt2500-1.1.0/Module'. Stop".) I tried both, as user, and as root, and failed to build it (The README file says one must run 'make' & 'make install-fedora' for FC). Does someone know what might be wrong and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance.

P.S.: This is the result of lspci:

[root@localhost Module]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller#1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller#2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller#4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP8x] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
02:01.0 Modem: ALi Corporation SmartLink SmartPCI561 56K Modem
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
[root@localhost Module]$
 
Old 06-13-2005, 08:47 AM   #2
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Have you installed the correct source for your kernel?
 
Old 06-13-2005, 08:50 AM   #3
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I have the default FC3 kernel, which is the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel. It's a precompiled kernel, I think.
 
Old 06-13-2005, 03:02 PM   #4
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You need to get the kernel-source and maybe kernel-headers installed ... then ...
Look at the last few entires on this thread, especially mine at the very end ... then ...
Go here for the real instructions.
 
Old 06-13-2005, 04:05 PM   #5
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Done, the whole problem was that the driver was located inside a directory named 'Mis descargas', and since there's a space between 'Mis' and 'descargas' make failed to compiled. I just uncompressed the driver inside my home directory and compiled perfectly. Thanks for the links, anyway.
 
  


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