RT61 Wireless in SUSE 11.0

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OH MY GOD THE FRUSTRATION. Spent yet another night trying to get this EDIMAX pcmcia card working. Upgraded from 10.3 to 11.0 hoping for a better wireless solution.

Followed the SUSE HOW-TO for installing the latest Ralink/RT61 drivers from serial monkey. Didn’t get far before I got the following error:

no rule to make target `modules’

I have installed the source, headers, gcc, make. This really shouldn’t be this difficult. I am a database developer, but I don’t use Linux much and I rarely deviate from the standard unix commands. Is there someone out there that really knows their way around suse wireless config.

Thanks in advance,

Kraig

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That’s all not needed! RT61 cards work out of the box with openSUSE 11.0 - you just need to download the firmware from ralink’s website http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/RT61_Firmware_V1.2.zip and copy the firmware (bin-files) to /lib/firmware, reboot… that’s it!

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That is exactly the information I needed! I kept trying to run ./rt2561.bin and getting an error. Ooops.

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Glad it helped you! Have a lot of fun with openSUSE!

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I just want to say - thanks rhorstkoetter!
Your simple explanation helped me to solve my problem with PCI card D-Link DWL-G510 rev.C, in SUSE 11.0.

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Hi guys, i’ve copied the firmware into the directory but YaST isn’t picking up my RT61 card, only two ethernet cards I have installed. It does however pick up that its an RT61 card when I do the lspci command

Any ideas? its an RT61 Rev B card.

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/usr/sbin/iwconfig also shows no wireless extensions for all . (lo , eth0 , eth1 )