[plug] Linksys WMP54G PCI card

[Jim Householder]

---- 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 11:40:01 +0800

>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
>
I'm still trying to get wpa_supplicant working so I can use WPA_PSK. 
The instructions  are based on version 0.4.7 and the current version
is 0.5.8, with enough names changed to make adapting it rather a
challenge...

Jim