Wlan with Ralink chipsets

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Here you can find out supported hardware which use Ralink chipsets (rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73): http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware

This installation process was done using rt73:

$ wget -c http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
$ cd rt73-cvs-*/Module
$ su
# updateos -i kernel-sources gcc make wpa_supplicant
# make && make install

Load the driver:

# modprobe rt73 ifname=wlan0

Start it up:

# iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# iwlist wlan0 scan

If everything is ok, you should see a list of surrounding Access Points.

For further configuration you can read:

# gedit ../README

--Xyz 21:01, 21 April 2008 (CEST)