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Ante

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Registered: 2007-04-18

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ralink 2500 and arch64

Ralink 2500 wireless network card on Arch64.
Does it work and, if so, how?

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: ralink 2500 and arch64

Edit: nevermind was arch64 not 32bit

seems to work with rt2500 driver ...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2459841

So install that driver and wiki for wireless and voila works.

Last edited by Mikko777 (2007-04-18 19:27:14)

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vbmithr

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From: Paris

Registered: 2006-08-06

Posts: 16

Re: ralink 2500 and arch64

No, it don't work.

Signal strenght locked to 0 with my arch64 with kernel 2.6.21 and package rt2500_B4-9
It was working with kernel prior to 2.6.20 (Kernel 2.6.19-ARCH) included. Now it don't work anymore and nobody ever manage to fix that.

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Re: ralink 2500 and arch64

No, it don't work.

Signal strenght locked to 0 with my arch64 with kernel 2.6.21 and package rt2500_B4-9
It was working with kernel prior to 2.6.20 (Kernel 2.6.19-ARCH) included. Now it don't work anymore and nobody ever manage to fix that.

Did you ever try CVS sources?

I only have experience with the rt2500 on 32bit but I can assure you the quality of the so-called CVS driver exceeds that of the beta ones by far.

Certainly worth a try.

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dongiovanni

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-10-06

Posts: 110

Re: ralink 2500 and arch64

The legacy drivers on rt2x00.serialmonkey.com should work.  Try the CVS version!

vbmithr

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From: Paris

Registered: 2006-08-06

Posts: 16

Re: ralink 2500 and arch64

I've try it, and it works, but only after having launch airodump before, or making a iwlist.

Very strange... But yes, it do work after all

Edit: In fact it don't work. The rt2500 version doen't work well (connexion very unstable), and the 2x00 isn't accessible anymore, as one must fetch an entire kernel tree via git and make a custom kernel (and i don't really want to build a custom kernel...)

Last edited by vbmithr (2007-05-14 08:48:45)

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