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Daniele Salatti wrote: |
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> Hi list!! (excuse me for my english) |
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> I have some problem installing drivers for my ASUS WL-167g. I have tried |
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> an "emerge ra2500" and then "modprobe ra2500", after and before |
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> rebooting, but lsmod show that the module isn't being used and the USB |
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> dongle didn't work. I have tryed using ndiswrapper, but after modprobing |
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> I got a kernel panic... I'm desperate... :( |
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> BTW, available kernels are 2.6.16 r12 gentoo and 2.6.17 r4 gentoo. |
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> Can anyone help me? Ask me if more info are needed to solve the problem, |
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> I'll be glad to give you all the infos you need. |
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> TIA |
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G'day Daniele, |
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One of the first diagnostic checks with module loading etc. is to |
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"dmesg" and note any errors at the end after the failed modprobe. |
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Issues I've experienced include wrong versioning (i.e. /usr/src/linux is |
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not pointing to the tree with the same version as the version of the |
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kernel being used, so that when I build the module it is built for the |
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/usr/src/linux version not the running version of the kernel); and also |
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dependency issues - the module needs another module to load and that is |
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wrong, or is built for the wrong version. |
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I suspect you'll need to make sure you've got all the correct USB stuff |
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in the kernel. |
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To get everything clean I would do a fresh kernel build and install that |
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kernel into grub (I do it manually - make oldconfig && make && make |
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modules_install and then copy the image across). And then run |
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"modules-rebuild rebuild" which should build all the modules that you've |
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merged from the portage tree (rather than from the kernel tree). You |
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may need to "emerge module-rebuild." Then reboot. |
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Having said all that --> there is no ra2500 in portage only an rt2500 |
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--> are you using an overlay? (post us your emerge --info). If that's |
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the case - the place to talk to is those you got the overlay from. |
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I'd try that before delving into ndiswrapper. Eventually you'll also |
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need the linux wireless extensions and (probably) wpa_supplicant to get |
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connection with an access point - but talking to the hardware is the |
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first step. |
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Oh and lastly - have you been to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500? |
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W. |
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