On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:42:09 +0100 "Peter Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My notes on using the rt2500 card, dating back to the old days > before an official package, are at: I bought an Edimax EW-7100PCg from Linux Emporium?? sometime ago because they claimed it was Linux compatible only to find they meant ubuntu compatible. I tried to get it working using the windows drivers on their CD plus ndiswrapper etc but failed to get it working at all. I am using the current Lenny kernel 2.6.26.1-286 on a Compaq Evo N160. When I plug the card in I get the following message in /var/log/syslog: cs: pcmia_socket0: cardbus cards are not supported. The spec for the N160 says cardbus cards are supported and /boot/config-2.6.26-1.685 has a line CONFIG_CARDBUS=y lspci does not have any line suggesting it sees a "Network controller: Ralink" as suggested by Peter in his wiki item although it does have this line:- Cardbus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC Card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) I 'aptitude installed rt2500-source' and carried out the steps listed by Peter and eventually got to the point where I could run "rmmod rt2500; depmod -a; modprobe ra0" without getting an error but when I do "ipup ra0" I end up with "SIOCSIFADDR: no such device" I followed Peter's suggestion for an entry in /etc/network/interfaces, except I opted to use dhcp and didn't include " && iwconfig ra0 key restricted 1234567890" as I don't understand what this does. any suggestions as to what is going wrong will be welcome -- John Lewis using Debian Sid with windowmaker for a nicer desktop -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
