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Old 01-17-2008, 08:07 PM
John Stumbles
 
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Default Mandrake 2.6.3-4mdk v. 2.6.3-7mdk - trying to get a wireless card to work

I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108 aka
Ralink Tech RT2500) to work under mdk 10.0. The driver (from Ralink's web
site) expects uname -r = 2.6.3-4mdk whereas my system has 2.6.3-7mdk. What
difference does the -x number (-4 v. -7) indicate?

The install script looked for a directory indicated by `uname -r`, so I
symlinked the -4 directory from the installation tarball to -7 which got
'make config' and to work and then did 'make install' (basically, the script
then copied the rt2500.ko and rt2500.ko.gz supplied for 2.6.3-4mdk instead
of -7).

The I then tried to '/sbin/insmod rt2500.ko' but get
insmod: error inserting 'rt2500.ko': -l Invalid module format

Is this what I should expect from hacking the version number?
What is the -4 version? Can I get Madk 10 to work with that?


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