Hi guys,

I am using slackware 10.0 with 2.6.17.7 kernel.

I am trying to install an edimax wireless network card with a rt2500 chip on it, downloaded the drivers from the wiki site, but nothing seems to work... slackware doesn't detect the card.

Is there anything particular that needs to be compiled in the kernel or as a module???

When I do iwconfig i get:

lo no wireless extension

dummy0 no wireless extension


I've spent the last 3 days to try and work this out but no luck at all...

Thanks

Were you able to compile the module? Does it insert properly?

Hi, seems like the module compiles ok but when I do : modprobe rt2500

nothing seems to happend

does it show up in lspci?

Its probably worth a search in this forum - there are several threads that may help

also Alien has built packages for this card

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/rt2500/

tobyl

Run 'lsmod | grep rt2500' and make sure that the module is running.

hi,

it does show in lspci which at least gives me a bit of hope

However when I do lsmod the module shows that it is loaded but there's a 0 on the line where it says if the module is being used or not. (sorry can't copy and paste from the console, can't figure out how to use gmp from fluxbox)

I also copied the RT2500STA.dat file to /etc/wireless/RT2500STA, and that doesn't make any difference ....

oH and I recompiled my kernel with some more wireless things in it after looking there: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500

but that didn't make any difference either


thanks

I got the USB rt2570 driver to work in slackaware once.
i downloaded driver from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads
unpacked the tarball and cd /modules (the modules dir that is created in the dir that you unpkaced the files into)
then #make and #make install
then had to add an alias into /etc/modprobe.conf from memory something like: alias rausb0 rt2500

if i did #lsmod |grep rt2500 i could see the module loaded.
*i think* i also had to do a #ifconfig rausb0 up
prior to beng able to see any wireless device registered with a #iwconfig
also, im not 100% about that part...

My card was rt2570 actually, im pretty sure i made a few posts to this forum about it

I'm using a Belkin 7010 wireless card which uses the RT2500 chipset.

My setup was straight forward. I downloaded the driver from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads and followed the instructions in the readme file within Modules

Build Instructions:
====================
For 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel:
a. $tar -xvzf rt2500-x.x.x.tar.gz
go to "./rt2500-x.x.x/Module" directory.

b. $make # compile driver source code

c. $make install # installs kernel module driver


I didn't bother with the raconfig utility.

The only other thing I had to do was add "/sbin/dhcpcd ra0" to /etc/rc/d/rc.local.

I didn't copy the RT2500STA.dat file to /etc/wireless/RT2500STA.

I was starting with a clean install of Slackware which had only had a wired connection via built in ethernet configured to download the driver from serialmonkey.


lspci

09:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)


iwconfig

ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"xxxxxxxx" Nickname:"Slack"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.427 GHz Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Link Quality=84/100 Signal level=-59 dBm Noise level:-193 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


ifconfig

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11124 (10.8 Kb) TX bytes:11124 (10.8 Kb)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1421 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1482 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:26 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1289281 (1.2 Mb) TX bytes:271700 (265.3 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xf000

I'm using Slack 10.2 with the 2.4.31 kernel

HTH

thanks you but I did all this and that doesn't work for me.

I went into /lib/module/2.6.17.7/extra and removed rt2500.o, recompiled the driver and now I get this error message during the build: warning: "_mmx_ memcpy" [rt2500-1.1.0-bb4/Module/rt2500.ko] undefined!

And in /lib/module/2.6.17.7/extra I have a file named rt2500.ko as the one before was rt2500.o ... strange

The module won't load anymore it says: invalid module format!

Also tried the cvs driver but it does the same...

I think I'm gonna try compiling a default kernel and see what happends!

Anyone know how to turn on gpm for fluxbox or does it only work on KDE(sorry I know it's off topic but it's getting quite tiring to retape all this from the console

gpm works for me in fluxbox

/etc/rc.d/rc.M should contain:

# Start the GPM mouse server:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm start
fi

/etc/rc.d/rc.gpm should be executable

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.ko modules are in the 2.6 series of kernels
.o modules are in the 2.4 series of kernels

Have you got more than one kernel in /lib/modules? That not wrong, but there seems to be some confusion creeping in here...

I cant think what is happening, but if the above is true, you may want to check for any out-of-date symlinks in /usr/src.

tobyl

Agreed - i think i had this very problem...
I would also check and make sure the symlink at /usr/src/linux is pointing to your current kernel..
Also, im quite sure i had to add something into /etc/modprobe.conf (or the other similar file that is in slackware) - sorry i am not in Slack at the moment.
Otherwise when doing the 'modprobe' i had to point it to the absolute path of the module.
I think when doing the make make install it put the alias in the wrong file for slackware..

i just found my old thread and the below is what i did. hopfully it helps although i thin you have already done it - im sure i had to add a line to the modules.conf (not modprobe.conf lke i said before) before it would work - good luck!

After un-taring the files go into the /Module directory that it creates.
#make
#make install
add an alias into /etc/modules.conf - alias rausb0 rt2570
#modprobe rt2570
#ifconfig rausb0 up

of couse the rausb0 part will change for you as your card is pci...

well all this is there and rc.gpm is x, but it still don't work.... thanks anyway!!


Ok as far as I can understand I must have changed the simlink /usr/src/linux after doing the first compile which is probably why I had a .o file in there...


Thanks I saw the tread the other too and did the same thing, but I think I have to sort out this compile problem first

Well,

I recompiled a kernel without iEEE 802.11 networking stack, just wireless drivers and wireless extensions and it's gone a bit better this time:

I am now able to compile and install the driver, however after doing a modprobe rt2500 nothing else happend the module loads though it shows in lsmod but doesn't seem to be used!!!

iwconfig doesn't give me anything either...

I also tried the driver from alien and ralink but those don't even compile!

well after some reflection I just realised that I was back at my first problem