which wireless driver to install?

teedubb · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

i'm new to gentoo and have a pci wireless card in my desktop, link to the actual product is below

http://trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=140_TEW-623PI&cat=42

output from lspci -v is below as well

Network controller: RaLink Device 0601
Subsystem: RaLink Device 2860
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

i didnt see my chipset in make menuconfig so i didnt know what my best option would be?

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:47 am Post subject:

Hi can you post this plz :

teedubb · n00b Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 12

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 156k 100 156k 0 0 405k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 698k

03:05.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2800 802.11n PCI
Subsystem: RaLink Device 2860
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

swimmer · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

There seems to be some rudimentary support in the kernel for it:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=31561#p31561
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=summary

But I can't help you with the implementation :-/

Otherwise you could try to modify the rt2870usb ebuild which is available here:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228553

and see how far you come ...

Finally there is of course the source code on

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

which you can try to compile manually even though you're leaving the path of
truth then ;-)

HTH
swimmer

EDIT: Added some more possibilities and links ...