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Hey People, I am using a wireless usb device to connect to my router and the make/model of the device is Edimax 7717Un. Drivers for Linux came with the CD ...
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    Question Cannot Install Edimax 7717 Drivers on RHEL6

    Hey People,

    I am using a wireless usb device to connect to my router and the make/model of the device is Edimax 7717Un. Drivers for Linux came with the CD and I tried to follow the Read me .sta but I cannot understand few things.

    1 When I tried to compile the code by using $make command the code is getting compiled with some errors which are mentioned below:

    _Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1508: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘open’
    /root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1509: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘stop’
    /root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1510: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘hard_start_xmit’
    /root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1511: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘do_ioctl’
    /root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1517: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘get_stats’
    /root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.c:1551: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘validate_addr’
    make[2]: *** [/root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux/../../os/linux/rt_linux.o] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Desktop/LIN_FILES/2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0/os/linux] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64'
    make: *** [LINUX] Error 2


    There are few warnings which I am not posting here along with this which have some typecast ,bad arguments warnings.

    Its written on the CD that its compatible with Linux Kernel ver 2.6 and up.

    2. If I ignore these errors and start following commands then I figured out that the read me file in the end asks to load the driver module in kernel by using:
    $/sbin/insmod rt2870sta.ko

    which give me the output that no such file or directory exists.

    Can anyone let me know if there is way of installing the driver for my make and model in RHEL 6.0 or is there anything I can do( which I think would be slightly too much for me) in this circumstances. I am attaching README.STA and the MAKE file with this post .
    Any help would be appreciated !

    Thanks

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    forgot

    OH I Am sorry I forgot to add files
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