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Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Ralink RT73 Wifi chipset with rt2x00 drivers working!!

Hi all!

I am new to ArchLinux, I have arrived here after trying a lot of distros without success on making my wifi work. Arch is the only one that made the trick, but I read on the wiki page of rt2x00 that "so far, there are no success stories with rt2400pci, rt2500usb and rt61pci drivers". So I feel that I have to share how I have got it.

It's very simple: go to the rt2x00 web page (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com) and clic on downloads. Download the CVS version of your driver (in my case, rt73-CVS). Copy the tarball to /usr/src and untar it with tar -xvzf. Enter the RT73*/Module directory and run make. Here there might be a problem with a too big module (more than 1MB) but it can be solved with a strip -S rt73.ko. After that, do make install and modprobe -v rt73. That's it, the rt73 module is loaded and I have a wlan0 wireless interface .

Finally, you only have to add rt73 to the MODULES section of your /etc/rc.conf and configure the wifi connection according to the Arch wiki.

I have followed the Ubuntu Forums HOWTO by diepruis to write this and install my wifi card. I hope this is useful for somebody, and maybe included in the wiki.

Bye!

tyr0

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 152

Re: Ralink RT73 Wifi chipset with rt2x00 drivers working!!

I don't want to deceive you, but you installed the enhanced legacy driver for rt73, not rt2x00 which is also in Unstable. The new rt2x00 project will provide one driver for many ralink wireless cards.
Downloadlink rt2x00-CVS: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2x00-cvs-daily.tar.gz

Last edited by tyr0 (2007-08-10 11:55:39)

Surgat_

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Registered: 2007-08-08

Posts: 317

Re: Ralink RT73 Wifi chipset with rt2x00 drivers working!!

I see. I didn't notice that there was a rt2x00 driver for many wifi cards, but anyway, I have finally got to use my wifi under linux with a SMP kernel (ralink official drivers didn't support this, I think) and thus with my Turion X2