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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?

In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
"John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
> I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108 aka
> Ralink Tech RT2500)

Realteks drivers are hopelessly broken (unless things have changed
very recently). But the card works under ndiswrapper (free) or the
linuxant driver (non-free).

> 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?

Not sure what driver that is, but then I wouldn't touch a mandrake
package with a bargepole.

> then copied the rt2500.ko and rt2500.ko.gz supplied for 2.6.3-4mdk instead

Pardon? .ko sounds more like a FreeBSD module than Linux!

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

Erm, yes. What does "file rt2500.ko" tell you?

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Nick Kew

"Nick Kew" <nick@hugin.webthing.com> wrote in message
news:140us1-e21.ln1@webthing.com...
> In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
> > I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108
aka
> > Ralink Tech RT2500)
>
> Realteks drivers are hopelessly broken (unless things have changed
> very recently). But the card works under ndiswrapper (free) or the
> linuxant driver (non-free).

Hmmm. " Mandrake 10 has the [ndis]wrapper as part of their kernel listed
under 3rd party drivers " (from http://www.linuxelectrons.com/).
But where's the list?!


> > 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?
>
> Not sure what driver that is, but then I wouldn't touch a mandrake
> package with a bargepole.

I guess I don't have much choice if I'm running Mandrake though, do I? :-)

(I'm not religiously converted to Mandrake mind - I'd be happy to install
any other Linux that (a) installed, (b) worked in graphics mode (c) worked
with my network card. I just tried Mdk because I'd heard some good things
about it being easy to install & use, and had had a bad time trying to get
anywhere with Debian.)

> > then copied the rt2500.ko and rt2500.ko.gz supplied for 2.6.3-4mdk
instead
>
> Pardon? .ko sounds more like a FreeBSD module than Linux!

Seems to be what they call them for 2.6.x kernels (on Mdk at least)

> > The I then tried to '/sbin/insmod rt2500.ko' but get
> > insmod: error inserting 'rt2500.ko': -l Invalid module format
>
> Erm, yes. What does "file rt2500.ko" tell you?

ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped

I think I understood the 'Intel' bit :-)

> In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
>> I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108
>> aka Ralink Tech RT2500)
>
> Realteks drivers are hopelessly broken (unless things have changed

Ralink Tech, not realtek.
I am using the ralink tech rt2400 module, works just fine.

> very recently). But the card works under ndiswrapper (free) or the
> linuxant driver (non-free).
>
>>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?

Get the source code and compile it yourself.

http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

> Not sure what driver that is, but then I wouldn't touch a mandrake
> package with a bargepole.
>
>> then copied the rt2500.ko and rt2500.ko.gz supplied for 2.6.3-4mdk
>> instead
>
> Pardon? .ko sounds more like a FreeBSD module than Linux!

It is the 2.6 naming convention for linux kernel modules.

Eric

"Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
news:cdig1f$m23$1@voyager.news.surf.net...
> > In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> > "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
> >> 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?
>
> Get the source code and compile it yourself.
>
> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

D'oh! Didn't think of that (getting weenified by this packages business -
when I used Solaris I used to have to compile everything myself, and often
to faff around with the order of compilers in $PATH to get it to do the
right thing :-)

Unfortunately 'make all' throws up errors, starting with
'/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file ...'
The README says the source has been verified for 'Linux versions after
RedHat Linux 7.1' so maybe modversions.h is a RH thing?

John Stumbles wrote:

> "Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
> news:cdig1f$m23$1@voyager.news.surf.net...
>> > In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
>> > "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
>> >> 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?
>>
>> Get the source code and compile it yourself.
>>
>> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>
> D'oh! Didn't think of that (getting weenified by this packages business -
> when I used Solaris I used to have to compile everything myself, and often
> to faff around with the order of compilers in $PATH to get it to do the
> right thing :-)
>
> Unfortunately 'make all' throws up errors, starting with
> '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file ...'
> The README says the source has been verified for 'Linux versions after
> RedHat Linux 7.1' so maybe modversions.h is a RH thing?


include/linux/modversions.h is in 2.4 kernels source.
include/config/modversions.h is in 2.6 kernels source.

To build a 2.6 kernel, the simple procedure is:

make xconfig
make && make modules_install && make install

That's it

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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:49:15 +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
> "Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
> news:cdig1f$m23$1@voyager.news.surf.net...
>> > In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
>> > "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
>> >> 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?
>>
>> Get the source code and compile it yourself.
>>
>> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>
> D'oh! Didn't think of that (getting weenified by this packages business -

Ha! "weenified", that's pretty funny.

> when I used Solaris I used to have to compile everything myself, and often
> to faff around with the order of compilers in $PATH to get it to do the
> right thing :-)

Really? I remember in SunOS days (prior to and up to Solaris 1.1.1) I used
to build a bunch of freeware from tarballs. That usually worked quite well
actually. I suspect most freeware was being developed on SunOS.

These days I usually find freeware for Solaris (2.x+) on:
www.sunfreeware.com
www.blastwave.org

> Unfortunately 'make all' throws up errors, starting with
> '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file ...'
> The README says the source has been verified for 'Linux versions after
> RedHat Linux 7.1' so maybe modversions.h is a RH thing?

Yeah, I find most (but not all) application packages can be "ported" to
another distro quite easily. Kernel patches and/or drivers can be messy.
They should be more independent of distro, but they're still messy.

BTW, I have this header on SuSE 8.2:

rpm -qal | grep modversions.h
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20.SuSE/include/linux/modversions.h

p.s. I'm trying to work up the courage to implement wireless LAN 802.11g
on Linux. I guess I'm hoping someone else will have blazed a trail.

--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.