Hi NG!

I am trying to install a PCI WLAN card (Conceptronic C54Ri) to my PC. The
card has the Ralink rt2500 chipset which is supposed to work with Linux.

My Linux box works with the commercial SuSE 10.0, most updated.

When I first installed the card, YaST did not recognize it. I tried to make
it work with the ndiswrapper. That worked neither (it might be that I did
something wrong?!) I wouldn't want this anyways, since there are obviously good
linux drivers for this card.

(Proof of that might be, that the live-version of Ubuntu 5.10, which I
brought with me from the Linuxworld fair here in Frankfurt, detected it
right away as ra0, let me configure it and it worked).

I suppose there are some traces left in the system by the ndiswrapper,
because the output of iwconfig is:

lo _ _ _ _no wireless extensions.

wlan0 _ _ RT2500 Wireless _ESSID:""
_ _ _ _ _ Mode:Managed _Frequency=2.412 GHz _Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
_ _ _ _ _ RTS thrff _ Fragment thrff
_ _ _ _ _ Encryption keyff
_ _ _ _ _ Link Quality=0/100 _Signal level=-120 dBm _Noise level:-256 dBm
_ _ _ _ _ Rx invalid nwid:0 _Rx invalid crypt:0 _Rx invalid frag:0
_ _ _ _ _ Tx excessive retries:0 _Invalid misc:0 _ Missed beacon:0

eth1 _ _ _no wireless extensions.

cipsec0 _ no wireless extensions.

sit0 _ _ _no wireless extensions.

dsl0 _ _ _no wireless extensions.

I tried to configure the card according to the description on wiki.unixboard.de (I am not allowed to post the entire link) but I simply don't have a ra0 device.

Right now I am online with the onboard ethernet device. ifconfig's output
is:

dsl0 _ _ _Protokoll:Punkt-zu-Punkt Verbindung
_ _ _ _ _ inet Adresse:84.58.186.162 _P-z-P:84.58.128.1
Maske:255.255.255.255
_ _ _ _ _ UP PUNKTZUPUNKT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST _MTU:1492 _Metric:1
_ _ _ _ _ RX packets:31316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
_ _ _ _ _ TX packets:38280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
_ _ _ _ _ collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:3
_ _ _ _ _ RX bytes:10636253 (10.1 Mb) _TX bytes:27974736 (26.6 Mb)

eth1 _ _ _Protokoll:Ethernet _Hardware Adresse 00:0B:6A:6E:11:7C
_ _ _ _ _ inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 _Bcast:127.0.0.255 _Maske:255.255.255.0
_ _ _ _ _ inet6 Adresse: fe80::20b:6aff:fe6e:117c/64
Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
_ _ _ _ _ UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST _MTU:1500 _Metric:1
_ _ _ _ _ RX packets:31403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
_ _ _ _ _ TX packets:38370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
_ _ _ _ _ collisions:359 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
_ _ _ _ _ RX bytes:11330496 (10.8 Mb) _TX bytes:28819832 (27.4 Mb)
_ _ _ _ _ Interrupt:209 Basisadresse:0xbc00

lo _ _ _ _Protokoll:Lokale Schleife
_ _ _ _ _ inet Adresse:127.0.0.1 _Maske:255.0.0.0
_ _ _ _ _ inet6 Adresse: ::1/128 Gültigkeitsbereich:Maschine
_ _ _ _ _ UP LOOPBACK RUNNING _MTU:16436 _Metric:1
_ _ _ _ _ RX packets:1104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
_ _ _ _ _ TX packets:1104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
_ _ _ _ _ collisions:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:0
_ _ _ _ _ RX bytes:362944 (354.4 Kb) _TX bytes:362944 (354.4 Kb)

Does anybody have an idea, what's wrong?

How do delete all the trace of ndiswrapper (I already have
deleted/uninstalled the profiles and the program itself.)?

Who is using this card as well and it works?

Thanks in advance for any answer that might help :-)

Oliver

I have just tried the installation according to "Install rt2500 WLAN driver in Fedora" here on LQ. No success: iwconfig still shows a wlan0 and no ra0. Any help?

I got my Hawking HWP54G w/rt2500 working with FC4 and wrote a very detailed description of how I did it.

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