Re: Installing rt2570 module

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:37:59PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed Debian as it described in  
> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/.
> 
> I have conceptronic usb wifi that are supported by the rt2570 driver.
> 
> So, I want to install this module in my original kernel. The problem is 
> that I don't know how to do it. I'm a newbee.
> 
> I found 
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Debian_rt2500_Howto 
> and http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DebianSlug/InstallRT2570 and these 
> differ.
> 
> For the other hand, I don't want to download kernel headers as it 
> described in http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DebianSlug/InstallRT2570. I 
> want to build myself. But I don't know how.
> 
> In resume, what's the easy and standard way for inserting rt2570 module 
> and that usb wiki key works?

There are packages in debian 9at least in testing/unstable) for the
rt2x00 driver.

Try:
apt-get install rt2x00-source
m-a a-i -t rt2x00

It might work.  Not sure if it is arm compatible or not.

There is also rt2500-source and rt2570-source for the older variant of
the driver.

-- 
Len Sorensen