[plug] Linksys WMP54G PCI card

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 9/24/07, Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: tomasz89 at gmail.com
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Linksys WMP54G PCI card
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:33:15 +0800
>
> >On 9/24/07, Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Has anyone got a Linksys WMP54G PCI, or other RaLink RT2561/RT61
> >> based card working?  If so, how?
> >>
> >> I've tried the RaLink driver.  When I modprobe it I get an unknown
> >> symbol or parameter error.
> >> Serialmonkey's version won't build.  I have not tried ndiswrapper
> >and
> >> the Windows driver because all that I've read indicates it won't
> >> work...
> >>
> >> The card uses the RaLink RT2561/RT61 chipset.  lspci -n gives its
> >id
> >> as 1814:0301.
> >> I have a recently installed Fedora 7 system, and have tried with
> >the
> >> default kernel (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7), 2.6.22.5-76.fc7, and 2.6.22.6,
> >> all with the same results.
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >> Jim
> >>
> >
> >I managed to get the USB version of such a device working, some time
> >ago.. Unknown symbol could be dependencies missing from the modprobe
> >(?)
> >
> >Can you give us more info from the build of the driver, and dmesg on
> >the modprobe?
> >
> >Tomasz
>
> When I looked in dmesg and messages I did not see anything relevant.
> Perhaps I did not look far enough back.
> I did use Google this time and found a reference to the missing
> symbol, pci_module_init, in 2.6.17.  It gave the location of the
> definition and the locations in all the files in that release where
> it was used.
>
> I compared the source for matching files in 2.6.17 and 2.6.22.6 and
> found that the symbol had been changed from pci_module_init to
> pci_register_driver.  I made the change in
> IS_Linux_STA_6x_D_1.1.1.0/Module/rtmp_main.c and presto-chango, no
> more problem.  modprobe rt61 worked.
>
> Now to install the card and all the associated stuff, like
> wpa_supplicant, firmware, etc.
> Again.
>
> Jim
>

Yeah I had a feeling is was an ABI difference between what that was
written for and something as new as 2.6.22...

Tomasz