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Christoph at 06:09, 22 December 2006

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In this article, I will demonstrate how I was able to get my wireless card working on [[SuSE|openSuSE 10.2]].

I have the following wireless card:
: Linksys WMP54G 2.0 PCI Adapter
: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbux/mini-PCI (rev 01)

The fresh install of openSuSE 10.2 recognised my wireless card/adapter and configured it "properly" (i.e. it configured it as an rt2500 pci). Unfortunately, it didn't work. That is, using either Yast2 or the command line options (e.g. <tt>ifconfig</tt>, <tt>iwconfig</tt>, etc) and DHCP just didn't work.

The following commands all showed the correct module installed, but they don't seem to work:
lsmod # check for rt2500pci (or something similar)
lspci -v # should show the following (or something similar)
Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G 2.0 PCI Adapter
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193
Memory at d5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Fortunately, there is a great website (and project) found here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ that is dedicated to improving the wireless capabilities of these cards/adapters.

== Getting it to work ==

* First, remove the default rt2500 driver from openSuSE 10.2:
modprobe -r rt2500pci # as root

* Prepare your kernel source (you will need to have the kernel source installed first):
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
''Note: If <code>uname -p</code> yields i686 but no such directory exists, try a <tt>ln -s /usr/src/linux/arch/i386 i686</tt>; not sure if that is the best solution).''
make cloneconfig
make modules_prepare

* Download the latest CVS-daily from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ and unzip/untar the CVS-daily. Enter the "Module" directory and execute:
make
make install # as root

* Check that the card/adapter is configured and recognised:
iwconfig

* If the ra0 or wlan0 shows "no wireless extensions" or nothing), then:
modprobe rt2500

That should do it! Hope that helps someone. Not sure why openSuSE 10.2 shipped with a faulty module/driver.

Please note that you might also have to execute the following:
/etc/init.d/network restart # as root

You might also need to temporarily turn off ''all'' firewall related software/daemons (e.g. SuSEfirewall2, AppArmor, etc).

== External links ==
* [http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ The rt2x00 Open Source Project]
* [http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_Network_Card_Installation Wireless Network Card Installation]

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 <google>suse linux wireless</google>
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 I have the following wireless card:

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 <google>suse linux wireless</google>
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 I have the following wireless card:

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+<google>suse linux wireless</google>
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	In this article, I will demonstrate how I was able to get my wireless card working on [[SuSE\|openSuSE 10.2]].		In this article, I will demonstrate how I was able to get my wireless card working on [[SuSE\|openSuSE 10.2]].
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		+	<google>CH02</google>

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 *[http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_Network_Card_Installation Wireless Network Card Installation]
 *[http://cbbk.free.fr/bonrom/ RutilT]
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 I have the following wireless card:
-: Linksys WMP54G 2.0 PCI Adapter
+ Linksys WMP54G 2.0 PCI Adapter
-: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbux/mini-PCI (rev 01)
+ RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbux/mini-PCI (rev 01)
 The fresh install of openSuSE 10.2 recognised my wireless card/adapter and configured it "properly" (i.e. it configured it as an rt2500 pci). Unfortunately, it didn't work. That is, using either Yast2 or the command line options (e.g. <tt>ifconfig</tt>, <tt>iwconfig</tt>, etc) and DHCP just didn't work.
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 ===Run===
   rutilt
 ==External links==

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   rutilt
-== External links ==
+==External links==
-* [http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ The rt2x00 Open Source Project]
+*[http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ The rt2x00 Open Source Project]
-* [http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_Network_Card_Installation Wireless Network Card Installation]
+*[http://en.opensuse.org/Wireless_Network_Card_Installation Wireless Network Card Installation]
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	You might also need to temporarily turn off ''all'' firewall related software/daemons (e.g. SuSEfirewall2, AppArmor, etc).		You might also need to temporarily turn off ''all'' firewall related software/daemons (e.g. SuSEfirewall2, AppArmor, etc).
		+	SuSEfirewall2 stop
		+	/etc/init.d/smpppd stop
		+
		+	If you have a DHCP server running, it might get in the way of your wireless network scripts.
		+	ps -ef \|grep dhcp # If it is running, then
		+	kill -9 PID
		+
		+	==RutilT==
		+	If none of the above works, check out the [http://cbbk.free.fr/bonrom/ RutilT] utility for Linux that helps you configure your wireless network devices (it has extra support for Ralink ones).
		+
		+	===Install===
		+	./configure --kernel_sources=PATH # (e.g. /usr/src/linux)
		+	make
		+	make install
		+
		+	===Run===
		+	rutilt

	== External links ==		== External links ==

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   iwconfig
-* If the ra0 or wlan0 shows "no wireless extensions" or nothing), then:
+* If the ra0 or wlan0 shows "no wireless extensions" or nothing at all, then:
   modprobe rt2500