It means they don't understand English too well... they're just repeating the instructions of the readme.txt more or less. Their so-called "Makefile" is little more then a bash script that is guess what module might work on the system... it would have been better if they had just packaged this with RPMs. You might need to wave a very large flag that has "source code" written accross it, or ask for what I guess is the source file: rt2400.c

Honestly, badgering the info out of them may be a lot harder then installing a redhat kernel. Look into "rpm2cpio" which will just dump the contents of an RPM into... wherever you tell it, and then just grab the rpms from RH for their stock 2.4.20 from RH9, and the kernel modules, and then unpack'em and copy the module tree over to /usr/lib/ and bopy their kernel to /boot and edit grub to aim at their kernel. The machine won't care in the long run.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well, thats what Ive been trying to do without much luck. Tried the 8.0 kernel and 9.0 kernel, but failed with a heap of dependencies. Tried the 7.3 one, the machine ran it, but pff the stupid module still wouldnt load, because it was built on '2.4.18-3custom' instead of '2.4.18-3'. I tried doing insmod -f but it spat out about 15 unresolved symbols.

I emailed them a few times for source code, but they said: "We don’t supply source codes unfortunately. However the Linux driver should work."

Now apparently theyre talking to their engineers, I dont know what about! Oh well, this one goes into the 'to-be-continued' basket.

Thanks for your help finegan, Im glad the Linux community is more helpful than companies customer support (isnt it always the case).

I had this too when I tried with Rh73 on my test PC (P233 MMX). It worked on my Winbloze2000 dual boot PC (PIII 800) and so I decided I'd give it a go on the other boot partition - RH8. It worked first time (followed the doco). Both installs did not have their kernels updated (or anything else for that matter). My only complaint now is that under RH8, the RaConfig utility only supports 40 and 104bit WEP, and under winbloze it supports 64 and 128bit WEP... *grrrr*

Regarding the above error, could it be that because this card is PCI2.2, it may have an issue with older chipsets (or could it be the compiled rt2400.o has the problem) ?

40bit and 64bit WEP are the same thing. One refers to whether the key is in hex and the other ascii, or something along that lines, regardless, 40 is analogous to 64 an 104 to 128.

nuxie1,

ever get those jokers to give up the source?

Cheers,

Finegan

No source, theyre looking into it 'as priority'

Worked like a charm!!! Thx finegan

FYI - I installed RH7.3, RH9, then RH8 ( the minitar is now working on my pIII 800 under RH8 ) on my p233MMX (my proposed wireless router), and still get the unresolved externals. I hope they release the source - I guess it would be very difficult to support their product given the permutations in OS and hardware combinations out there.

Well - at least we know it works on a PIII with RH 8 (I am guessing that any ver of RH from RH7.1 to RH 9.0 would also be OK)

So are you saying you got the minitar working under RH8 on the p233mmx, even tho you are getting unresolved externals?

I'm running Redhat 9.0 on a AMD K62/500 and i get unresolved externals, and the module still doesnt appear in lsmod. I'll grab a copy of redhat 8.0 and try it i suppose :-/

Email support@minitar.com and ask for answers.

The more people that email for better drivers/source etc.. the more likely they are to respond.

btw, BurnFEST, OCAU?

Yup, I'm BurnFEST on OCAU.

BurnFEST - sorry for the delayed response - been mucking around with this wireless card for the last few days so I was AFK from my normal 'net PC.

Sorry - typo:

should of been:

FYI - I installed RH7.3, RH9, then RH8 ( the minitar is now working on my pIII 800 under RH8 ) on my p233MMX (my proposed wireless router), and I still get the unresolved externals.

Ive done the same thing on my K62/500, and in that order (7.3, 9.0, 8.0) and i get unresolved externals and its not working

It does the same thing on my PIII 667, what chipset is your board (which its working with)?

Have you guys emailed minitar for support?

I have it working under RH9...

Just trying to route my two networks.

PIII 800 is using a BX 440 chipset.

Nuxie - haven't sent a reply to support yet. Will do as soon as I can figure out my p233MMX's chipset (suspect a TX). Btw - what chipset is your MB?

FYI - The linux source has posted. I guess u can expect further posts if hassles are encountered.

http://www.minitar.com/index.php?maincat=download

Just one think I'd like to get straight...did you still get the unresolved externals, even when it worked?