[SOLVED] WiFi networking and Rt2500

tristure · **Joined:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:40 am **Posts:** 1

Hi, my box includes a WiFi card based on the ralink rt2500 chipset.

It doesn't work with zenwalk right now.

Did anybody succeed in having this working? The first step would be to load the rt2500 module, but modprobe returns a "module not found" error.

Any help approciated. Thanks!

Uncle Steve · **Posted:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:12 am

Heh, wru Borromini.

Borromini · **Posted:** Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:03 am

I did, with WPA-PSK AES encryption

. I'll see if I can retrieve the howto I wrote, it was on the old forum $:-\$ .

I'll post my script and what I did, anyway. That's for this afternoon though, I'm at work

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ses13 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3

Hi Im new to this forum but I did sucessfully set up my linksys wmp54g pci adapter using ndiswrapper and my linksys rt2500 drivers off the cdrom that it came with I first used ndiswrapper -i for the rt2500.sys file then right after that I ndiswrapper -i the rt2500.INF file then I used modprobe ndiswrapper and it totally worked I know that the .sys file isnt supposed to do anything but its the first time Ive succesfully loaded the driver on Zenwalk with the pre-installed ndiswrapper.

Good Luck!
ses13

Borromini · **Posted:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:48 pm

I got sumtin' betta: native drivers :). It works beautifully. My network is WPA-PSK AES encrypted (60 bit key) - in fact the AES encryption makes it already WPA2 :P.

Ses13, as promised here's my script:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Wireless startup script
# Since this script contains sensitive information, it should
# be accessible by root only!

# ensure there are no leases remaining on the device
dhcpcd -k ra0 2> /dev/null
ifconfig ra0 down

# now we start the device's configuration
ifconfig ra0 up
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=AES
iwconfig ra0 essid ""
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=""
iwconfig ra0 essid ""

# get an IP address from the wireless router, and we're done :^)
dhcpcd ra0

exit 0

Put it in /root, and put a link in /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will be started at boot. Disable everything in /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf (or whatever file it is there that regulates your IPs - not on Linux right now, can't tell).

Then chmod 700 it (it contains your key, so it's a security risk if you make it readable/writable to others. Chown root:root.
And you're done. If you run a stock kernel, I can give you a tgz that will install the rt2500 driver. Just holla

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ses13 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3

I would love to try that out I have had so many problems with my wireless card.

thnx,
ses13

Borromini · **Posted:** Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:31 pm

http://users.telenet.be/saranno.famosi/ ... 6-1Z22.tgz

ses13 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 pm **Posts:** 3

thnx!

ses13

Borromini · **Posted:** Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:41 pm

Np, let me know if it works.

ver · **Joined:** Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:39 pm **Posts:** 18

Wow, actually it worked for me. Thanks a lot!

But I do have one crazy problem, and I am thinking it has to do with the driver and X. If run it (ifconfig ra0 up and dhcpcd ra0) the computer freezes immediately or after a minute or two. If I run them in console before I load the X system, then startX after they are on....everything is peachy.

Borromini · **Posted:** Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:10 pm

Then just use the script before x loads, as I do. Just make rc.local run it.

paul.sijpkes · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:24 pm **Posts:** 2

Does anyone know if this solution works with the rt61 driver?
I'm having serious issues getting it to work. (see my other post http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=11670).
cheers,
Paul

[SOLVED] WiFi networking and Rt2500

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