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#1 2008-10-18 09:57:48

Garret
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From: Palermo, Italy
Registered: 2006-07-09
Posts: 172

Asus WL-167g (usb) and rt73 driver

This pen is a wlan usb adapter from Asus. I know that this usb pen works "out of the box" with other distros. But i want to install it on archlinux.

Giving lsmod:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0b05:1723 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. WL-167G v2 802.11g Adapter [ralink]

Searching the ID i found that i need the driver RT73

So i downloaded it but at the moment of compiling it i get an error:

[garret@desktop Module]$ sudo make
Password:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-ARCH/build SUBDIRS=/home/garret/RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.4.0/Module modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-ARCH'
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in "/home/garret/RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.4.0/Module/Makefile". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/garret/RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.4.0/Module] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-ARCH'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[garret@desktop Module]$

What's wrong?

Last edited by Garret (2008-10-18 10:01:57)

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#2 2008-10-18 10:25:09

lucke
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From: Poland
Registered: 2004-11-30
Posts: 4,018

Re: Asus WL-167g (usb) and rt73 driver

It should work with in-kernel rt73usb. Remember to install firmware (pacman -S rt2x00-rt71w-fw).

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#3 2008-10-18 14:09:13

Lifty
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Registered: 2006-11-05
Posts: 62

Re: Asus WL-167g (usb) and rt73 driver

I have this adapter and it works fine with the kernels rt2x00 (rt73usb) drivers. Dont try to mess around with the cvs version of rt73 unless you have a good reason to because you have to blacklist the rt2x00 modules (which get loaded automatically) for it to work. Just install the firmware like lucke suggested.

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#4 2008-10-18 14:28:48

Garret
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From: Palermo, Italy
Registered: 2006-07-09
Posts: 172

Re: Asus WL-167g (usb) and rt73 driver

Lifty wrote:

I have this adapter and it works fine with the kernels rt2x00 (rt73usb) drivers. Dont try to mess around with the cvs version of rt73 unless you have a good reason to because you have to blacklist the rt2x00 modules (which get loaded automatically) for it to work. Just install the firmware like lucke suggested.

ok you are right!!! it works

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