FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card, Crashes the kernel....GRRRRRRRR

[Tomas Larsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Larsson
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 12:25 AM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: RE: FC4 And Dlink DWL-G630 WiFi card
> 
> 
> 
> With best regards
> 
> Tomas Larsson
> Sweden
> 
> Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Larsson
> > 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?
> 


Any ideas anyone??