HowTo: Get a RT2500-based wifi card working in Ubuntu
This was easier than I thought it was going to be. Nice and simple:
- Download the RT2500 Windows Drivers, and unzip them somewhere.
- Ensure you have
wireless-toolsandndiswrapperinstalled. - Open a terminal and browse to the folder where you unzipped the drivers.
sudo ndiswrapper -i rt2500.inf- Edit
/etc/modules(as root) and add ‘ndiswrapper’. - Edit
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist(again as root) and add ‘blacklist rt2500’. - Restart, and you should now have a working card.
Hey I told you how to do this! Stealing my ideas and posting them on your site as your own…
Also it can be a little bit difficult to find the windows drivers online, as the drivers usually come as a big 30 meg setup file, whereas you only need the .cfg and .ini files.
Is there a way to extract these files from the exe without actually installing? Regardless, if you have a windows install with the card you can get the driver files straight from the appropriate system folder.
The file I linked to is just the files you need, I zipped them up and put them here.
Oops I’m stupid. I missed the fact that you actually linked to them.
man your tutorial rox man. 4 hours of spitting out forums and websites with wrong information and too much blah blah has cost me a lot of frustration.
but your simple steps really not only got my external wifi card working but also my internal wifi as well..
simple and effective. most linux gurus can learn from this explanation. too many are big egos and can not explain a thing….
good work…. now i am happy surfing on my neighbours internet………….
Glad to know it helped someone
Hope to install driver into Mint11.
Can you explain instruction 3, “Open a terminal and browse to the folder …..”
The terminal has no browse facility. Am I missing something?
Regards
Tom: I meant just
cd whereever/you/have/it.