On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 16:32 +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > I bought a D-Link Wireless G Desktop Adapter, DWL-G510. > > My understanding is that it works with the above driver. > > I downloaded the relevant tarball from the Ralink site and am trying to > follow the build instructions in the unpacked README. > If you are using Debian or a Debian based distro, you may be better off letting module assistant take care of everything for you.
I have had success in the past using Debian, just fire up m-a (as root) and select the driver you want. I believe Fedora and Mandriva have something similar too, but I am not familiar with them. >From what I have heard, the ralink drivers are soon to be included in the kernel, something to look forward to. > Here are the last 2 steps for a 2.6 kernel as set out in the README: > > "6> $dos2unix rt61sta.dat > $cp rt61sta.dat /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat > # !!!check if it is a binary file before loading !!! > > 7> $load > ... > > #[kernel 2.6] > # $/sbin/insmod rt61.ko > # $/sbin/ifconfig ra0 inet YOUR_IP up" > > I have 2 questions: > > 1. I ran dos2unix with the file rt61sta.dat and then checked the > properties of the file. The type is shown as "MPEG video". I don't > understand enough about these things to know whether the file is > actually a binary file. How do I get a conclusive answer to that? > > 2. After the module has been loaded, I'm told to issue the ifconfig > command with "YOUR_IP". I know that my modem treats my computer as > 10.1.1.3. Is that what I'm to substitute for "YOUR_IP"? You need a different IP per device, if 10.1.1.3 is your ethernet card, then you need something else for wireless. Most of the time I just let network assistant take care of all that, but if that is not working I would bring up the new device ie ifconfig eth1 up and then do a scan with iwlist scanning. The wireless card may also be wlan0, do an ifconfig -a to see what is around. Make sure you have the wireless tools installed too. Rather than going through all the ifconfig iwconfig stuff, get network manager to do the grunt work for you. Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
