Re: can't see wireless card

["Avishai" <avishai.hendel@gmail.com>]

Hello,

> It seems that "RaLink device 0301" means this:
>
> 1814  RaLink
>
>       0301  RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>             1186 3c08  DWL-G630 Rev E
>             1186 3c09  DWL-G510 Rev C
>             1737 0055  WMP54G ver 4.1
>
> (You can find this information at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
>  or in /usr/share/misc/pci.ids if you use the "update-pciids" command
>  from the "pciutils" package.)

I've got an Edimax EW-7128g PCI card, and according to
http://ralink.rapla.net/ and some other websites, this card uses the
rt2500 chipset (that's why I went for the rt2500 package in the first
place). However, it appears that wireless manufacturers are known to
change the chipset without telling anyone, so I went ahead and gave
rt61 a try.

> That looks like you will need the "rt61" module for this card. I cannot
> find the source for this module with module-assistant, so you will
> probably have to compile it manually. You might also have to upgrade to
> a newer kernel. (The instructions at the URL given above mention version
> 2.6.15.)
>

I've compiled the module on my system (still using the old kernel, I
think that trying to upgrade my kernel with no direct internet access
might take away a few days of my life), and it completed successfully,
with the creation of rt61.ko. When I try to modprobe rt61, I get a
'Invalid module format' message (or similiar to that). You think that
is related to the kernel version, or is there another thing I'm
missing?

> -- 
> Regards,
>           Florian

Thanks a lot,
Avishai.