ralink wireless driver

[Christoph Georgi]

Hi,

with 'make' the rt2500.ko was build into the rt2500 folder. 'make 
install' copies rt2500.ko into /lib/modules/2.6.10/extras. If you use 
the ubuntu standard kernel, you can delete the 2.6.10 folder. 
Furthermore, the installation makes a file called modules.conf (check 
the output of 'make install') in /etc. This file can be deleted, too.

The rt2500.ko should be copied to 
/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-386/kernel/drivers/net/wireless as this seems to 
be the place where wireless lan driver modules are stored. The first 
time you want to use the driver, modprobe will not find it by itself. cd 
to the folder you stored rt2500.ko in and run '$ insmod rt2500.ko' to 
insert the module into the kernel. The next time you boot, everything 
works out of the box.

regards
.christoph


P.S.: I cannot reply to your email address due to some user quota error?!?!

Paul Pianta wrote:
> Hi Christoph
> 
> I saw that you posted the following on the ubuntu mailing list and I
> have a question for you ...
> 
> --snip--
> Downloaded the CVS driver on rt2x00.serialmokey.com, unpacked 
> it, followed the readme (just install and copy the created module into 
> the appropriate folder) and everything worked!
> --snip--
> 
> I have managed to build the driver with 'make' and 'make install' gives
> no errors either - but when I try 'modprobe rt2500' it says that it
> can't find rt2500.ko.
> 
> Which 'appropriate folder' did you copy the driver files to? (and which
> files did you copy?)
> 
> It would be great if you could help me out :)
> 
> thanks
> 
> pantz
> 
> 

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