FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card
Tomas Larsson
tomas at tlec.se
Thu May 18 22:24:54 UTC 2006
With best regards
Tomas Larsson
Sweden
Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
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> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 11:53 PM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: RE: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card
>
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card
> >
> > On 5/18/06, Tomas Larsson <tomas at tlec.se> wrote:
> > > Think I found it.
> > >
> > > It seems that there is a native linux-driver avaible for
> > this card As
> > > far as I can tell it is rev E1 card. According to
> > MadWiFi's homepage
> > > it is using a RaLink chipset.
> > > Which seems to be confirmed by the output from lspci.
> > >
> > > Now I have downloaded the tar-file (RT61) from RaLinks
> > homepage, but
> > > obviously it is source code.
> > >
> > > My question is then, is there anything more to be done,
> apart from
> > > compiling the driver, do I need to re-configure the
> kernel or do I
> > > need to recompile it. It is a standard stock FC4 DVD-install.
> > > I guess I need to do a yum update first.
> > > Any recommendations for installing the TAR-file, compiling and
> > > installing the driver would help much.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > With best regards
> > >
> > > Tomas Larsson
> > > Sweden
> > >
> > > Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem
> > >
>
> Now, the driver is compiled, but I'm supposed to edit
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> Obviously it has a different name and location in FC, but
> which and where
>
In the readme, it says that the config-file (a text-file) should mbe in
bin-format, what is that?
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