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Hello. I recently installed Fedora 13 because I got sick of windows, and I saw that linux comunity is extremely friendly. I am REALY new to linux, so working in ...
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    Beginners problem instaling rt73 drivers (wireless USB)

    Hello. I recently installed Fedora 13 because I got sick of windows, and I saw that linux comunity is extremely friendly. I am REALY new to linux, so working in terminal is something I still have a lot of problems with. This is the issue, I have a Canyon wireless USB that wont start in Fedora 13. I spend last couple of days going trough different forums and helps, so I managed to type lsusb in terminal and find out that I have Raling RT2501 based wireless adapter. I went on their site, downloaded the linux drivers and started folowing the instalation instructions. To begin it says that I need to $tar -xvzf ..... .tar.gz. When i type that it says no file or folder.
    1. Where do I have to place the archive before trying to extract it(it's in home currently, seamed wise )
    2. Archives extension is tar.bz2, I tried typing that instead of tar.gz, but no use

    After that i extracted it using GUI, figured it was the same (Wrong?). second step was to go to module directory, and i did, had to type $cp Makefile.6 ./Makefile, I did that, no errors reported.
    Next step is the problem, I had to type $ make all and then $make install, this step, on different forums in different forms (something like make all && make) always produced the same result "***/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/build: No such file or directory". What am I doing wrong? Can somebody help me with a step by step walktrough, or refer me to where I can find something usefull?

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    Hello and Welcome!

    Looks like you have tried some research... That's a good thing.
    Take a look at this sticky.....
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