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Ralink RT2571. Driver and Firmware for Windows and Linux and Mac OS. Welcome to the PC Matic Driver Library, the internet's most complete and comprehensive source for driver information. Drivers Library. To find the latest driver for your computer we recommend running our Free Driver Scan. Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless LAN Card - Driver Download. Vendor: Ralink Technology Corp. Product: Ralink RT61.
Code: robinsjp@home-desktop:$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gccReading package lists. DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state information. Donelinux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic is already the newest version.build-essential is already the newest version.gcc is already the newest version.0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.I extracted the contents of the download to a directory on the Dekstop. The drivers are in a 'Module' subdirectory. I navigate to that folder and do the following. HiThanks for the quick reply.The problem I'm having with rt61pci is that the wireless signal seems to be very weak. If I'm sat directly on top of the router, then it's fine, but if I move away a few metres the signal is lost completely.
I don't have windows installed on this box so I can't do a direct comparison with the windows driver, but I have two laptops here that pick up several surrounding wireless networks, while the box using rt61pci is only picking up one network.I've been googling this for the past couple of hours and several people have reported weak wireless signals with rt61pci, like this bug report for instance:I'm not sure if building the driving from RaLink will help, but as things stand the card is unusable. Just for reference. Btw - not to barge in on your thread chili but jpr0 I thought you should know PAE is 'Physical Address Extension' and it's an ideal kernel for utilizing more than 3.2 GB of memory if you ever wanted to.Thanks, I wasn't aware of what it was exactly. It's handy to know though, because I want to put more than 3 Gb in my own computer (the one I'm on at the moment isn't mine) and I was thinking of switching to a 64 bit OS. They don't seem as thoroughly supported as the 32 bit versions though.Anyway, chili I installed the wireless backports module, but I don't notice any difference in the rt61pci module.
Vernacular homes style. Code: modinfo rt61pcifilename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-25-generic/updates/compat-wireless-2.6.34/rt61pci.kolicense: GPLfirmware: rt2661.binfirmware: rt2561s.binfirmware: rt2561.bindescription: Ralink RT61 PCI & PCMCIA Wireless LAN driver.version: 2.3.0author: A61F722E33A38alias: pci:v0000401sv.sd.bc.sc.i.alias: pci:v0000302sv.sd.bc.sc.i.alias: pci:v0000301sv.sd.bc.sc.i.depends: rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib,crc-itu-t,eeprom93cx6vermagic: 2.6.32-25-generic SMP modunload modversions 586parm: nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (bool)It's late here so I'm going to sleep.
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I'll check back here tomorrow. Thanks for your help.
IntroductionThe RT2561/RT61 chipset is used to implement 802.11g Wireless LANNICs. These notes describe how I installed a RaLink based NIC (theLinksys WMP54G PCI 802.11g card) under Debian Linux ('etch').NOTE:.I used version 1.1.1.0 of the RT2561/RT61 open source driver.My LAN WAP (Wireless Access Point) that I'm connecting to from theDebian based workstation was for a home network. It was wide-open,with no WEP or access control.The installation involves:.Installing kernel source.Downloading, compiling and installing the RaLink 2561/RT61 Open Sourcedriver.Configuring a TCP/IP connection to the LAN wireless access point(WAP).Selecting and Downloading the proper driversInstall the NIC and check it has been detected on the PCI bus. Makemake -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-k7/build SUBDIRS=/home/myself/ISLinuxSTA6xD1.1.1.0/Module modulesmake:. Pergola design software for mac. /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-k7/build: No such file or directory. Stop.make:. all Error 2The Makefile failed.
Clearly there was no build directory. It appears that some of the makefilesmake invalid assumptions about where your kernel source is. These assumptions are not correct for Debian.Here are two ways to fix it.The Hard Way: Installing the Kernel Headers and Modifying the MakefileWhereas some other distros require a kernel source code installation to compile a module, Debian provideskernel headers for this purpose.Since uname -r returned 2.6.18.5-k7,I Googled 'debian headers 2.6.18-5-k7' and it took me to:This site recommended that I install the following packages.
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