Despite judgekaster’s howto, I still find myself occasionally banging my head against the wall with my Linksys WMP54G v4. It’s a Ralink RT61 chipset, and even though it will work with Linux, it seems a bit finicky, particularly under Edgy. I think I’ve boiled the installation procedure down to this, working from a clean server install:
- Get the firmware and the drivers from the Ralink Web site. Follow the link for judgekaster’s howto for those.
- Install build-essential, unzip and the linux-headers-generic off the install CD.
- Unzip the firmware first, and put those files into the /etc/Wireless/RT61STA directory (which I resent as difficult to type).
- Now decompress the driver file, change into the Modules directory, and copy the Makefile.6 file to Makefile. Now sudo make all.
- Copy the rt61.ko file to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/
- Reboot, and iwconfig should show an ra0 interface.
It’s a little tricky and I’ve mangled it more than once. Hopefully this will speed it up for anyone else who wants to use an RT61 cold from a fresh install.
P.S.: I haven’t figured out how to circumvent the inevitable switch from linux-generic to linux-386 when I install the nvidia-glx drivers … and the need to go through this an entire second time.
Edit: It’s also scuttling my attempts to jump to feisty on that machine, since re-make-ing the modules seems to error out. Oh well.
Edit again: Well, trying to reproduce this with the nvidia-glx installed is not doing what I want. I’ll have to keep working on this.
