GUI Installer for RT73 (RaLink) Devices [Beta]

[Kiefer Rodriguez]

hey..

it is good idea to make a prog for the problem with rt73 + ubuntu

i have just a view questions :

whats up with the rt73 driver from this page? is it installable with you installer? could you add a function to install the rt2750 driver?

do you know the program airdriver-ng?

h**p://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/



greetz & thx moebb

moebb,
Thanks for your reply. I'll take a look in to extending the installer to cover other Ralink drivers, a working guide to installing the driver manually comes in handy - it means i can just grab all the commands and go from there (a command set). Yes I know of the entire aircrack-ng suite (as well as aircrack-ptw), why do you ask? (a possible option to patch the driver? )

- Kiefer

[weaver4]

Will this work on 8.10? Or is it needed in version 8.10 at all?

[Kiefer Rodriguez]

The installer should have no problem on 8.10, but has not been officially tested.
Good luck, let me know how it works out

Kiefer

[pdc124]

from my gentoo days I tend to put my own scripts in /usr/local/

when I do this with your installer it fails to

os.system("sudo cp "+self.entry_tbpath.get_text()+" /usr/src")
^^^^^^
needs a space in it for it to find the path correctly.
I think it also fails to find the downloaded tarball becaseu it then asked me to put a CD in

ive got this though

paul@paul-desktop:~$ ls -la /usr/src/
total 324
drwxrwsr-x 4 root src 4096 2008-11-23 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-07-01 21:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2008-11-15 18:14 linux-headers-2.6.24-21
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-11-15 18:14 linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 309535 2008-11-23 17:39 rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
paul@paul-desktop:~$

and its unzipped stuff into

paul@paul-desktop:/usr/src$ ls -la /usr/local/ | grep rt
drwxr-xr-x 4 32042 32043 4096 2008-09-18 15:35 rt73-cvs-2008091809
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 309535 2008-11-23 17:21 rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18441 2008-11-23 17:39 rt73install.py
paul@paul-desktop:/usr/src$

sorry not a python programmer ( perl and java
so cant really help further

[wzwilliam]

Hi there. When i try to install the application that's what i got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "rt73install.py", line 13, in <module>
    import pygtk
ImportError: No module named pygtk

any ideas?

[blueshead]

I;m a n00b to Ubuntu.. Just installed 8.10 on a Dell XPS M1210.. My intel antenna worked out of the box with Network Manager but my Ralink RT73 Quicky Jr.USB would not show. I installed Rutilt Wlan Manager. And the Ralink showed and is working . Very well I might add. So were the drivers in 8.10? And before I tried Rutilt.. I did find and d/l the drivers.. but could not install.. I'm terminal challenged.. But it seems up and running now...

[educarrega]

In Ubuntu 8.10, not complete the install, see the errors:

cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/rt73-*/Module
strip: 'rt73.ko': No such file
make: *** No rules to proccess the target `install'. Stop.
sudo: ifconfigwlan0: command not found
FATAL: Module rt2570 not found.
FATAL: Module rt73 not found.
sudo: ifconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: dhclientwlan0: command not found

Why?

[bfo]

I made slight change in the code, so that

sudo: ifconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: iwconfigwlan0: command not found
sudo: dhclientwlan0: command not found

lines don't appear any more. Improved archive attached.
Thanks Kiefer, good job!

[cribology]

Noob problems

I get the message
python: can't open file 'rt73_install.py' [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What am I not doing I read something about opening a command line and directing it to the folder with the rt73_install.py included but

1) How do I open a command line (is this the same as the terminal?

2) How do I direct it to the correct folder? (currently the folder is on my desktop)

I am using Linux Mint 6 installed on a USB drive.

[tommasoa]

I'm a newbie in linux and in ubuntu.
I installed Ubuntu 7.04 in my old iMac G3.
I ran the installer, but it stop at 65% and it tell me:

Commencing install..
* Copying driver tarball to /usr/src..
* Unpacking driver tarball contents to /usr/src..
* Please confirm your distrobution's LiveCD is inserted
* Gathering required header files from CD, this may take a while..
* Added CD-Rom to sources list, now updating list..
* Installing headers..
* Compiling RT73 module..
* Correcting file size issue..
* Installing module..
* Bringing down wireless device..
* Removing obsolete RaLink modules..
* Making a backup of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to your /home directory..
* Opening /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist..


In Terminal, it tell me:

xassenn@ubuntu:~$ python rt73_install.py
sudo: cp/home/xassenn/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz: command not found
tar: /usr/src/*.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
sh: sudoapt-get: not found
cd: 1: can't cd to /usr/src/rt73-*/Module
strip: 'rt73.ko': No such file
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
sudo: ifconfigwlan2: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "rt73_install.py", line 126, in start_install
modprobe = file("rt73-blacklist.temp", 'a')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'rt73-blacklist.temp'



What can I do?
Sorry for my bad english, I'm from Italy.
Thanks
T.