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  • RT2400/RT2401 - 11 Mbps, 802.11b, 2.4 GHz, (RT2421, RT2460)
  • RT2500 - 54 Mbps, 802.11g, 2.4 GHz, (RT2525, RT2560)
  • 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 WirelessChipsets have a GPL driver.

"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".


RT2500 card, SUSE 9.3

Volker Kuhlmann writes:

Get driver source from sourceforge project "rt2400", rt2500-1.1.0-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.

 ln -s ../lib/qt3/bin/qmake /usr/bin

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:


CategoryWireless