Comments on: Linux install and configure DLink DWL g 520 – RT61 Wireless LAN PCI Card

By: Mateus Machado Luna

Mateus Machado Luna — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:46:35 +0000

Hi!

I’m having some problems here. It looks that I don’t have an rt61.ko file. I also don,t have any of the other you sugested. I’m with 2.6.38-10 kernel… it’s that a problem?

By: kelsey

kelsey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:28:48 +0000

How do u install it??

By: vic

vic — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:21:46 +0000

Its the same driver Im traying to install, but the error persists

By: Jozsef

Jozsef — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:26:52 +0000

I used the deriver from http://www.ralinktech.com.tw and that is this one.

do you think something is wrong with driver?

By: vic

vic — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:17:29 +0000

Jozsef, what driver did you use?

By: Jozsef

Jozsef — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:30:38 +0000

i got it as default now again. by the way I notice that my wireless card is working and scanning and finding my signal from router but I can’t connect to it. don’t really know what’s the reason. I tried everything I’ve read above but nothing worked. yet I’m sure it’s something very simple since the card is working but I just can’t figure it out what’s the problem.

By: Jozsef

Jozsef — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:50:57 +0000

What I got now is that I have installed the driver and now system automatically starts with ra0 but the Internet is not working! So I need to type in the konsole
# ifconfig ra0 down
And just after that my eth0 starts working again and I have access to the Internet.
My question is how can I change eth0 back to default?
Thanks.

By: Jozsef

Jozsef — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:41 +0000

I have a same error message as “kaloqn” and “vic”!

Anybody has a suggestion for this matter?

Thanks.

By: kaave'

kaave' — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:58:55 +0000

hi
I ‘m working with CentOS linux and i want to ues linksys wireless-g pci to connect to internet. how i can find the rmp file of this.
tanks

By: vic

vic — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:05:56 +0000

I have the same error of the guy above

@slackware 12

By: kaloqn

kaloqn — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:58:45 +0000

make all
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.26/build SUBDIRS=/root/Desktop/2008_0723_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.2/Module modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26′
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in “/root/Desktop/2008_0723_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.2/Module/Makefile”. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Desktop/2008_0723_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.2/Module] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.26′
make: *** [all] Error

By: Dan Yotz

Dan Yotz — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:15:34 +0000

well if your router’s ip is 10.0.0.1, that could be a problem, you must make sure that your netmask does not prevent one device from seeing the other …

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:24:49 +0000

Thanks for the walk-through. I am completely new to linux and have finally managed to get it compiled and the driver up. I am running mythdora 4 which is based on fc6.

I can see the wireless network and set everything through iwconfig but cannot connect to it properly. Could the GUI Wireless assistant be interfering or the settings i entered in rt61sta.dat?

When you startup ra0 with the ip 192.168.1.2 – what determines what that ip should be? my router eg. es 10.0.0.1

By: Dan Yotz

Dan Yotz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:30:43 +0000

Thanks for the walkthrough. There is a typo, however. You utilize two different distributions, 1.1.0.0 and 1.0.4.0, actually I had troubles with each of those and instead used the newest from RAlink:

http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0723_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.2.tar.bz2

I still had issues with the build – no errors, but many warnings concering WPA_Supplicant.

However, it did work in the end, and together with your WPA2 walkthough, I am now surfing in privacy.

2q’s though:

1) Can anyone tell me how to encrypt the password within /etc/network/interfaces ?

2)Why do possible wireless connections no longer appear when I right click the network icon on the top-right of the screen in ubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn?

Oh, and the MSI MP54G5 miniPCI wireless card works just fine!

3)Can someone tell me if the combo BT card does also???

By: Kiran Damle

Kiran Damle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:11 +0000

Great instructions (step by step).. even setting the channel same as what you get in iwlist is important!!!

By: marco

marco — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:36:40 +0000

Solved. Basically, the NetworkManager was the missing link. In addition, to get the internet after I connected I used the admin – network configuration cp to put my router’s IP as the primary DNS under the DNS tab. This can also be done via file of course. Restarted the network, then restarted the NetworkManager service and kablamo! Internet :) Good luck and I hope this helps someone.

By: marco

marco — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:55:38 +0000

well, for those of you on CentOS, I found this link, which was of some help:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/NetworkManager
The card seems to be working now and I can connect to the router! BUT – I still can’t get internet via a browser?? So weird. I’m clueless again, searching everywhere for an answer. If anyone has a clue, I’ll buy a vowel please :P

By: marco

marco — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:59:10 +0000

I tell ya, I’m having the hardest bloody time getting this RAlink card to work in CentOS 5. Ugh, I’m shocked that it’s 2008 and it’s still this hard to get a wireless card configured! My card is a GigaByte with the RAlink chipset. I downloaded the correct drivers for it, etc. The install directions are similar to your directions, but some minor differences. I don’t recall directions to copy the rt61.ko to the kernel/drivers/net/wireless dir – but when i tried to it failed saying that directory is read only. I tried copying the file their via the window interface also but it failed. That screwed something up and I ended up having to repair the boot volume. Anyway, back to my wifi problem.

When I run iwconfig, I can see the info there for ra0. However, the essid is empty. When I look at the dat file, it’s configured properly. When I look at the ifcfg-ra0 file, it shows the mode Managed, ESSID is correct, channel is correct etc.

I’ve switched back and forth with using the network configuration control panel and setting up get IP automatically and using a fixed IP. But I’m not having luck.

I’m using WPA2PSK for authmode and AES encrypttype. In the dat file I see “wpapsk” and that’s where I was putting my password. I’m not sure if that’s right or not? Because there is also the ‘key’ that gets set in the key file and can be seen in the wireless settings dialog in the control panel.

I can get a ping when I use the fixed IP, but nothing when I used DHCP. I can sometimes see my router with iwlist ra0 scanning, and sometimes I see another router but not my own. If I try to restart network services with DHCP it fails when trying to get an IP from the router.

when I run iwconfig, again it shows an empty essid. I can’t change it with iwconfig ra0 essid my-link – it doesn’t do a thing. I’m thinking this maybe part of the problem?

Also, if I’m using a plain text password, which place is the correct place for the password with AES encryption using WPA2PSK authmode? dat file or in the key file that supplements the ifcfg-ra0?

Sorry for the rambling post, but I’m exhausted and I’m trying to cover all the ground as concisely as possible. If anyone has any suggestions i would greatly appreciate your input. – Cheers.

By: syed

syed — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:25:56 +0000

hi gurus,
Basically i am not from LInux background but know basic commands. I have question to all Linux gurus outthere.
I have laptop (Red Hat Linux installed AS 4) and desktop (Red Hat Linux installed AS 4) and D-link router(wireless). I want to connect to internet from laptop (through wireless) and also from desktop (through wired) and also i want to communicate (telnet,ftp) between laptop and desktop. what should i do

can anyone give me step by step process?

thanks in advance
syed

By: Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:40:19 +0000

Thanks so much for that. I’m running Debian Etch and can confirm you do need to do

depmod -a

before loading the driver