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Installation of Ralink rt2500 drivers.

Asked by P.J. Buehler

I have Ubuntu installed on a Winbook laptop. It doesn't seem to see my Ralink RT2500. I download the rt2500-source from the Debian site but find that I am in over my head with compiling drivers (Linux would gain much more ground against Windows if it didn't set the bar so high), but notice that module-assistant is there to help me, so I download module-assistant and try to install that, only to find that I need 'debhelper' (I'd swear that I knew a Deb Helper in high-school) and so I retrieve that, but find that it needs 3 more packages to support it, and each of these three need 3 more and some of those are not to be found and others refuse to open and, and, and . . .

So instead of spending what little is left of both my sanity and my allotted time here on earth tracking down contradictory, arcane, obscure, just simply wrong, outdated or foreign (Klingon?) language information, encountering many endless loops and outright dead-ends on the web, can you please offer me a step-by-step guide to installing the rt2500 drivers on my machine, beginning with; what directory do I put the source code initially and then what do I do to compile and then what, God help us, 'dependencies' do I need to be aware of and what actions do I take to satisfy them, and-so-on-and-so-forth until I can get my laptop to join the wireless network because a laptop without wireless is really not worth anything at all, is it. Thank you,

                                                                           P.J. Buehler

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Dean Sas (dsas) said : 		#1

You could've just tried installed debhelper using add/remove programs, or synaptic (system->administration->synaptic package manager) it would automatically download and install all of it's dependancies, and it's dependancies dependancies, and so on.

Your wireless card should work just fine out of the box, without need for any kernel compilation. Have you tried following the steps on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500 for information to configure it?

What version of ubuntu do you use?

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P.J. Buehler (pbuehler) said : 		#2

Quoting Dean Sas <email address hidden>:

> Support request #1545 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1545
>
> Comment:
> You could've just tried installed debhelper using add/remove
> programs, or synaptic (system->administration->synaptic package
> manager) it would automatically download and install all of it's
> dependancies, and it's dependancies dependancies, and so on.
>
> Your wireless card should work just fine out of the box, without need
> for any kernel compilation. Have you tried following the steps on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500 for
> information to configure it?
>
> What version of ubuntu do you use?
>

Thanks for your considerate reply! I really need access to someone who
can talk
me down from these situations--someone who is conversant in Linux. I
just gotta
get over the hump.

Unfortunately, I didn't bring the machine in with me today and can't tell you
what version it is, but I just received the CD a couple of weeks ago.
I'll try
again this evening following your road map.

                            --P.J. Buehler

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