trying to set up rt61 drivers

[normthesamurai]

Hey I've followed the advice on the sticky to set up my ralinkrt61 wireless device, unfortunately, when I do I run into two problems: the first is that (following this guide: h t t p s :// help(dot)ubuntu(dot)com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT61 ) when it comes time to make all I get this:

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/ build: no such file or directory. stop
make: ***[all] error 2

also, There seems to be no rt61.ko file anywhere
ps. I'm new to linux

[daark.child]

What version of Ubuntu are you using? RT61 devices are supported out of the box using newer kernels so there is generally no need for you to compile the driver yourself.

[normthesamurai]

What version of Ubuntu are you using? RT61 devices are supported out of the box using newer kernels so there is generally no need for you to compile the driver yourself.

Actually I'm using Debian. I just installed it the other night and its my first linux distro
edit: kernel 2.6.26-2-686
also, when trying to install the drivers via the ndiswrapper method, I come accross a makefile:34: *** cannot find kernal version in lib/modules/2.6.26-2-868/build, is it configured?

What does it mean by this?

[waterhead]

Before we can help, we need some detailed information concerning your system. The link below is for a stickied post that explains how to obtain this information. Please read through it, and post the info here in this thread.

Wireless Setup - Start Here

[normthesamurai]

Oops, forgot to add all that:

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge [8086:2561] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] [1002:5960] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) [1002:5940] (rev 01)
02:01.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]
02:05.0 Communication controller [0780]: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem [14f1:2f00] (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (CNR) Ethernet Controller [8086:103a] (rev 82)

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
isofs                  28164  1 
nls_utf8                1760  2 
zlib_inflate           14144  1 isofs
nls_cp437               5568  1 
vfat                    9184  1 
fat                    40896  1 vfat
udf                    67684  0 
nls_base                6820  6 isofs,nls_utf8,nls_cp437,vfat,fat,udf
crc_itu_t               2080  1 udf
radeon                118912  1 
drm                    65192  2 radeon
ipv6                  235364  12 
ppdev                   6500  0 
lp                      8164  0 
loop                   12748  0 
snd_mpu401              6152  0 
sd_mod                 22200  2 
snd_cs4232             11380  0 
snd_opl3_lib            9344  1 snd_cs4232
snd_hwdep               6212  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_cs4231_lib         20512  1 snd_cs4232
snd_mpu401_uart         6368  2 snd_mpu401,snd_cs4232
ns558                   3712  0 
snd_seq_midi            5728  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6432  1 snd_seq_midi
gameport               10700  2 ns558
snd_rawmidi            18528  2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
parport_pc             22500  1 
parport                30988  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
snd_intel8x0           26268  1 
snd_ac97_codec         88484  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                1728  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                62596  3 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq                41456  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              17800  4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6380  4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
pcspkr                  2432  0 
snd                    45604  15 snd_mpu401,snd_cs4232,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_cs4231_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6368  1 snd
i2c_i801                7920  0 
snd_page_alloc          7816  3 snd_cs4231_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_core               19828  1 i2c_i801
rng_core                3940  0 
iTCO_wdt                9508  0 
button                  6096  0 
intel_agp              22556  1 
agpgart                28776  2 drm,intel_agp
shpchp                 25528  0 
pci_hotplug            23460  1 shpchp
joydev                  8480  0 
evdev                   8000  3 
led_class               3908  0 
wmi                     6440  0 
ext3                  105512  3 
jbd                    39444  1 ext3
mbcache                 7108  1 ext3
ide_cd_mod             27652  1 
cdrom                  30176  1 ide_cd_mod
ide_disk               10496  5 
ata_generic             4676  0 
libata                140416  1 ata_generic
dock                    8304  1 libata
usbhid                 35904  0 
hid                    33184  1 usbhid
ff_memless              4392  1 usbhid
usb_storage            77024  1 
scsi_mod              129324  3 sd_mod,libata,usb_storage
piix                    6568  0 [permanent]
floppy                 47748  0 
e100                   28908  0 
mii                     4896  1 e100
ide_pci_generic         3908  0 [permanent]
ide_core               96136  4 ide_cd_mod,ide_disk,piix,ide_pci_generic
ehci_hcd               28396  0 
uhci_hcd               18672  0 
usbcore               118224  5 usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
thermal                15228  0 
processor              32544  1 thermal
fan                     4164  0 
thermal_sys            10856  3 thermal,processor,fan

[waterhead]

Thank you for the info.

This is the wireless:

02:01.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI [1814:0301]

I believe that the rt61pci driver should work, but I don't see it loading. I don't know what kind of wireless support Debian has, but you could try manually loading the module. Use the su command to gain root priviledge first.

modprobe rt61pci

If this returns with a blank prompt, then the module loaded. Look for it in the lsmod output.

If you get an error, then the kernel is not compiled with support for your card. You will then have to add the driver, as you first tried to do. There are actually two drivers that you can use. There is the open-source rt61pci driver. It can be found in a package that includes many drivers:

Download - Linux Wireless

Or you can use the Ralink rt61 driver that you first tried to compile. Both drivers will need to be compiled.

The reason that your first compile failed, is most likely because you do not have some dependencies installed. The Ubuntu document that you linked to even says what needs to be installed first:

You will need to install a few packages for the compilation process. For installation of packages, please refer to InstallingSoftware.

• gcc
• build-essential
• linux-headers

These may have different names in Debian. What you need is this:

kernel headers
kernel source
gcc
make

With these installed, you should be able to compile either of the drivers.

[normthesamurai]

ok thanks. After running modprobe rt61pci its now finding a wireless connection in network connection, however I am having trouble setting it up. Iwconfig finds this:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID home
Mode: managed Frequencey:2.412 Ghz Access point: not Associated
(...)
link Quality: 0 Signal level: 0 Noise level: o
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0

If config finds eth0 and lo
and the lights on my actual NIC aren't lighting up.

I thought I had got all the dependencies I needed for the other problem. Debian had a "linux-header" that I downloaded, I might recheck that I got and installed the right kernel headers and source, failing that I'll move onto Ubuntu but it would be good to get this working

[waterhead]

I'm not sure what other problems there are. The output of the dmesg command may show these.

I don't know if Debian has a network connetion manager by default. It would be located in the system tray, next to the date/time. If not, you can try installing it.

apt-get install network-manager

There is also the system tray applet, nm-applet. It too is needed.

Or you could just install the Wicd connection manager. It looks to be in the lenny-backports repository.