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From: William Verkooijen on 24 Feb 2005 04:05
Hello,

For more than a week I'm busy installing a Ralink 2500 network dirver.
I was able to install the ndiswrapper 1.0 on Suse 9.1 Personal
edition.
When I issue the ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.INF everything goes fine.
When I issue the ndiswrapper -l command it says the driver is
installed and that the hardware is present. When I issue the modprobe
ndiswrapper there are no error messages.

When I look in the logging with dmesg there is no wlan0 present and I
can't go any further with the installation.

What I am missing in dmesg are the follwing lines:
ndiswrapper: driver driver1 added
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

the support documentation says that i shoud check that there is a
subdirectory on /etc/ndiswrapper. There is one with the conf, sys and
inf files that is used to install the driver with. there is also a
rt2500.cat file. So it should be right. But I am missing the lines in
the dmesg.

Should I use a lower version of the ndiswrapper or is someone able to
help me.

Thank you,

William Verkooijen
From: Martin Tessun on 25 Feb 2005 15:22


William Verkooijen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For more than a week I'm busy installing a Ralink 2500 network dirver.
> I was able to install the ndiswrapper 1.0 on Suse 9.1 Personal
> edition.
> When I issue the ndiswrapper -i Rt2500.INF everything goes fine.
> When I issue the ndiswrapper -l command it says the driver is
> installed and that the hardware is present. When I issue the modprobe
> ndiswrapper there are no error messages.

Why do you use ndiswrapper?
There is a complete Linux-driver for the rt2500. (Have a look at
rt2400.sourceforge.net; this includes both rt2400 and rt2500 drivers).
This includes even a graphical tool for some aspects (including
WLAN-configuration)

Works like a charm here. I recommend using the CVS version as there are
many bugs fixed.

Here my ifconfig:
kirk:~ # ifconfig ra0
ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:A6:1D:DF
inet addr:10.100.14.195 Bcast:10.100.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fea6:1ddf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8651 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15221 errors:1443 dropped:1443 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:765 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7045707 (6.7 Mb) TX bytes:1777191 (1.6 Mb)
Interrupt:11

ok, bad conenction down here ;)

HTH,
Martin
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