[newbie] Translating rt2500 installation instructions

[David L Norris]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 21:46 +1100, Nicholas Comino wrote:
> I was hoping to get some help with these instructions that came with
> the rt2500 driver (which I hope will successfully drive the MSI PC54G2
> wireless card).

The instructions as you pasted them appear incorrect.

Try these commands exactly:
  tar xzf RT2500-Linux-STA-1.4.4.0.tar.gz
  cd RT2500-Linux-STA-1.4.4.0/STA/Module
  cp 2.6.x/Makefile .
  make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/ SUBDIRS=$PWD modules
  make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/ SUBDIRS=$PWD modules_install
  /sbin/depmod
  /sbin/modprobe rt2500

# replace YOUR_IP with a valid IP address for your LAN:
  /sbin/ifconfig ra0 inet YOUR_IP up


Disclaimer: I have no clue if it works.  It may crash your computer or
eat your branes.  The build output looks absolutely horrible.  But the
module does seem to load properly on my machine.  I have no rt2500 to
test, though.

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
  ICQ - 412039
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