Comments on: How To: Configure Wireless with Ralink (rt2500) Level One WNC 0301 in Fedora 7

By: JoJo

JoJo — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:27:21 +0000

Hello, I tried to follow the instructions, but on step 3 I get following result:
ich@ubuntu:/lib/modules/2.6.35-31-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00$ mv rt2500pci.ko back.rt2500pci.ko
mv: cannot move `rt2500pci.ko’ to `back.rt2500pci.ko’: Permission denied

can somebody please help me?

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By: linnerd40

linnerd40 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great guide!
However, this method is not working for me. Whenever I try to activate the device, I get the following error:

rt2500 device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization

Any ideas on what might be going wrong here? I have tried pretty much all the rt2500 drivers I could find (from the rt2x00 project and from Ralink) but nothing works.

Thanks for any help you can supply!

-linnerd40

By: General Bordeaux

General Bordeaux — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@linnerd40
hey did you try adding the line
##############
alias wlan0 rt2500
###############
to the /etc/modprobe.conf file.
after adding this line do
[root@server saini] modprobe rt2500 [Enter]
[root@server saini] depmod -a [Enter]

hope this works …

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By: ralink

ralink — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.ralinktech.com may have the updated driver you are looking for
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support.html

By: Héctor T

Héctor T — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

hello!

i’ve done everything you say
(even depmod -a) but i get the same error when i try to activate the device

rt2500 device wmaster0 does not seem to be present…

any ideas?

By: JP

JP — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Step 2: Unload the kernel module for rt2500 drivers

[root@bordeaux kulbirsaini] rmmod rt2500pci [Enter]
________________________
Sorry, I am a beginer of linux.
I don’t understand, how i must unload the kernal..?

Could you explain it?

By: General Bordeaux

General Bordeaux — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@JP
See, there are kernel modules for each and every part of the hardware, which helps the operating system to communicate with the hardware.
e.g. We have kernel module ‘nvidia’ through which OS communicates with your graphics card. Similarly for communicating with wireless lan card we have different kernel modules for different wireless cards.
In this case, by default the non-working kernel module is loaded. So, you have to remove(or unload) that module (we insert(or load) modules which are required for communication).

Don’t be sorry for anything. Everyone has to learn step by step. I think I explained the concept pretty clearly.

By: Argel

Argel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hello. I’m new in Fedora 7 (and new in Linux). My “RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)” doesn’t work. Which tools I need to install with yum for “make” and “make install” (step 4)?. Beforehand thank you very much.

Argel.