RaLink RT61 Wireless Solved

[Stone123]

Originally Posted by UbuntuJohan Hi, I have now tried this two times with my D-link DWL-G510 REV.C card. But I still can't get it to work. The card is recognised but as soon as I try to configure it I get a crash e.g. Any ideas?? Has anyone managed to use these rt61 drivers on a 64 bit system? Cheers //Johan

Did you fix the dat file in /etc/Wirless/rt2561~/ .dat ? whatever it's called
read readme file that comes with drivers. scroll down at the end and see.
and use some gui program to connect . wifi radar and such .
Anyway i cant connect on boot only from gnome network tool.

[UbuntuJohan]

Yes I have been trying to configure that file in various ways but it doesn't make a difference.

Do you have any example of your file that I can compare with?

I get the same crash when I try with gnome network-admin.

I will also install a 32-bit Breezy partion and see if it works better there.

Cheers
//Johan

[evilsim]

judgekaster u are the man. im pleased to say with some effort, ive gotten my RT61 card up at last! Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" is my current flavour.
im using (ubuntu 5.10 cd) 2.6.12-9-386 kernel, P3 cpu, D-Link G-510 C1 Ver 5.00 & of course an Ubuntu breezy CD.

[4296457.850000] rt61: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[4296457.882000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[4296457.882000] RT61: Vendor = 0x1814, Product = 0x0302

Now let's get to it.
Insert your ubuntu CD, boot from it, type 'server'.
Once your system is installed log in as your chosen username and password.

sudo -s (enter your user's password)
wget http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Linux/2005_1230_RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf 2005_1230_RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0.tar.gz
cd RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0_200512230/Modules
cp Makefile.6 Makefile
apt-get install ssh (dont leave home without it)
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.12-9-386 linux-source-2.6.12 make build-essentials gcc-3.4 (hope i didnt forget any)
cd /usr/src
tar -xjfv linux-source-2.6.12.tar.bz2
cd /home/[TAB][ENTER]
cd RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0_200512230/Modules
make all
(should take a while to build it, took >1minute on my 933mhz)
cp rt61.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/.
depmod
modprobe rt61
dmesg |tail
(you should see a result like the one at the top of this post)
mkdir /etc/Wireless/
mkdir /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/
cp *.bin /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/.
cp rt61sta.dat /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/.
vi -b /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat

Thats where im upto.
Next, follow judgekaster's post from "$ iwconfig".
Again judgekaster thanks for your help getting this damn D-Link card working and inspiring this text. (although I almost wish I'd just bought the Linksys card at first) Also thanks to Christian & Matt @ sol1.

[Stone123]

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[UbuntuJohan]

Now after installing 32 bit breezy on annother partition.
I'm running wireless with my D-LINK DWL-G510 Rev.C and this RT61 driver on 32 bit Brezzy.

So this driver doesn't work in 64 BIT. But there are so many other benefits with 32 bit at the moment so I'll stick to that for now.

Finally I can move on to the mythtv installation

Cheers
//Johan

[wrwills]

It appears that rt61 chipsets will soon be supported under the rt2x00 sourceforge project. They've also had problems with freezes, but they seem to be making some progress... Maybe in a couple of weeks we'll be able to use this card under a 64bit system.
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB...er=asc&start=0

[ridcully]

Hi,

I just wanted to add, that my Edimax EW-7128g works fine with WPA on breezy.

Thanks to judgekaster for the howto

[Rocketeer]

I can't get the compiler to work.

I get strange errors when typin "make all"

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build SUBDIRS=/home/tristan/temp/RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.0_200512230/Module modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am using Ubuntu 5.10 (BB) with 2.6.12-10

Could someone please just send me the binary on ( t h a u s e r a t s m i l e . c h) or the solution to my compile problem?

[izakage]

I'm having the same problem as Rocketeer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[crocovin]

I'm having the same problem.
What is "modules" in the make file below? Should I replace it with something else.

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all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build SUBDIRS=$(shell pwd) modules

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