Differences between version 5 and predecessor to the previous major change of RT2x00WirelessChipset.
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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 2:17:54 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Wednesday, September 7, 2005 11:25:29 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
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* RT2500USB - 54 Mbps, 802.11g, 2.4 GHz, USB 1.1/USB 2.0, (RT2526, RT2571)
* RT2600 MIMO XR - 54 Mbps, 802.11b/g, 2.4 GHz, (?, ?)
* RT5200 - 54 Mbps, 802.11a/b/g, 2.4/5 GHz, (RT5222, RT2560)
-The RT2400 and RT2500 chipsets are possibly the only
WirelessChipsets with
a [GPL] [driver|http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/]
+The RT2400 and RT2500 WirelessChipsets have
a [GPL] [driver|http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/].
"Ralink worked with Mark Wallis, Ivo van Doorn, Luis Correia, Robin Cornelius and others to get a supported driver out there under the GPL". "Special thanks to Minitar, the network gear vendor with the foresight to ask Ralink to make the driver GPL".
-[Ralink RT2500 chipset based wireless cards|http://ralink.rapla.net/]
+----
+!RT2500 card, [SUSE] 9.3
+
+Volker Kuhlmann writes:
+
+Get driver source from sourceforge project "rt2400", rt2500-1.1.-b3.tar.gz.
+
+It needs packages kernel-source, and I had kernel-syms too. Driver compiles fine. There's only one file to copy for installation - rt2500.ko. Overwriting the SuSE-supplied one is fine.
+
+To compile the RaConfig2500 utility, package qt3-devel (and its dependencies) and a C++ compiler are needed. One needs qmake first, it's in /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake and for some reason not in $PATH.
+
+<pre>
+ ln -s ../lib/qt3/bin/qmake /usr/bin
+</pre>
+
+Compiles fine. Runs fine, too.
+
+Version 1.1.0 beta3 is worlds better than beta1. It actually always establishes a link to the AP. It works fine, too. Configure WPA-PSK in yast, and ignore the "WPA not supported yet" by rcnetwork restart. Run RaConfig2500 and configure WPA-PSK, somewhere it stays permanently. Hence WPA-PSK works too.
+
+The only downside is that while playing with RaConfig2500, the box locked rock-solid 3 times, and I had to engage the reset button. The whole setup looks ok at first (and second) glance, but I reserve judgement about the reliability of Ralink 2500 until later.
+
+----
+
+See also:
+*
[List of
Ralink RT2500 chipset based wireless cards|http://ralink.rapla.net/]
+
+-----
+CategoryWireless
