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just check RAlink website, it appears that they have a usb driver at last. I think this maybe good news for those who use the RA2500 usb dongle. I think I might try to find some time to test whether it works with mine.

At last, I am writing this message with the buffalo connected to internet. I think it's time to thank Danleff and martouf. You've really give me a lot of help throughout the process and I've learn quite a lot. Thank you. When I look back, it nearly took me a month to figure out how to make the client work. It seems that it's a waste of time at first because in the old XP environment, you just plug it in and then press a few buttons, everything should work as it supposed to be. However, in Linux, you have to look for the driver, compile it, test it and then set the thing with the primitive editor 'vi'. But I think it's part of the fun of exploring a new OS. Danleff, you are right at the very beginning, for a beginner to make this little supported usb driver to work was a nightmare and not an easy task. I am glad that I got through at last and I think I could continue my exploration with the LINUX box. Thank you. BTW, I think I've read something about the linspire driver was not really in the public domain and should not be distributed. What does that actually mean?

Can anyone tell me what's the difference between them. The driver that I compiled said it support WEP 40 or WEP 104 but when I check the router, it said it support TKIP-WEP128-WEP64 encryption. I can connect the wireless client with the router when no encryption was set. But if I enable the encrpytion, if seems that they cannot communicate. Both router and wireless client are from Buffalo.

Sorry that I am a bit confuse, So does that imply that I have to set my router to use WEP instead of TKIP with my current driver or I should find a driver which also support TKIP. How could I build the "wpa_supplicant"?

The driver I am using is the rt2570.ko. It appears OK if I disable all the encrption and use the router's MAC as the SSID. However, I just dont know how to configure the USB client and the router if I want to turn on the encryption. The router that I am using is from Buffalo, so I just use the default AOSS setting, the SSID and WEP key are indeed very long, I think the key has 63 hex digits. By the way, is TKIP another type of encrption? I set up the client by using the control centre provided by Mandrake because I dont know where and how should I put all those values. :-)

My mobo is also Gigabyte K8NSC-939. The chip set it use is NVidia 250. I have tried to install the FC3 - fails. I think it could not recognise the SATA drive. But if I tried the FC4, installation OK, but the support for Chinese was not that good, many strange characters. So I tried other distro like the Mandrake 10, it works. But I just couldnt understand why Mandrake 10.1 refuse to be installed. I've also tried the Ubuntu, appears to be OK as well

Finally, I got my buffalo client recognised. Thank you for your great help. I give up the ndiswrapper because it cannot recognised the buffalo, I suspect it's because the PID and VID are different if I use other manufacturer's driver, even the the driver from ralink does not contain the PID and VID which the buffalo used. If I tried to change the inf file and use the specific PID and VID that buffalo used, it just crash. So,I downloaded the linspire rt2570 driver and have it compiled. The OS now can recognised the buffalo as "rausb0". However I still have problems in setting it up since I used to have it recognised by the AOSS in window environment. Can you give me some help from here?

2 Questions : 1. I wonder why the system would restart automatically after shutting down. Is it normal behaviour ? 2. How can I turn the screen off when I am not using the laptop or hibernate the system. Thank you for your help for a newbie.

I've installed the Mandrake 10.1 recently in my old portable. It just keep self restarting at night. Strange???!!!

for ndiswrpapper -l rt2500usb driver present, hardware present for grep , below is the thingy that I got, sorry for the length of it. May 11 22:34:38 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: ndiswrapper nls_cp950 isofs vfat fat ircomm-tty ircomm irda crc-ccitt sg st sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc lp parport_pc ppdev parport usblp md5 ipv6 snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc gameport snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd soundcore af_packet usbhid floppy ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core 8139too mii raw ide-cd cdrom loop supermount via-agp agpgart uhci-hcd usbcore rtc ext3 jbd May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: EIP is at check_nt_hdr+0xb/0x140 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: Process loadndisdriver (pid: 8869, threadinfo=c0842000 task=c046d380) May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [pg0+203077859/1069604864] load_pe_images+0x43/0x1a0 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [<cc59b8e3>] load_pe_images+0x43/0x1a0 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [pg0+203036621/1069604864] load_sys_files+0xfd/0x200 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [<cc5917cd>] load_sys_files+0xfd/0x200 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [pg0+203038804/1069604864] load_ndis_driver+0x54/0x100 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [<cc592054>] load_ndis_driver+0x54/0x100 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [pg0+203040648/1069604864] wrapper_ioctl+0x78/0xe0 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: [<cc592788>] wrapper_ioctl+0x78/0xe0 [ndiswrapper] May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: <3>ndiswrapper (ndiswrapper_load_driver:92): loadndiswrapper failed (11); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' May 11 22:34:39 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper [root@localhost matthew]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. Any idea? please help

At last I've tried the ndiswrapper. Everything appears fine up to point after modprobe ndiswrapper The wlan0 never appears :-( . lsmod just show ndiswrapper but 0 used. The driver that I used was from Ralink. If I tried the original driver from Buffalo, just hang. By the way, what are the PID and VID, shown in the inf file refers to? Any idea what else can I do?

well yes, but without the AI. Regarding the driver, I also feel little bit strange but it is DriverLoader's instruction. It requires both drivers as well. Anyway, it didnt work. I would like to try the ndiswrapper, but.... how ? You know I really a newbie ..... :-)

I think the chipset is RT2500USB from Ralink, I forgot where did I read the info. The drivers I used are indeed came with the card and when I point to the :18020, it asks me to supply the two drivers from the CD, one is the rt2500usb.sys and the other rt25u98.sys. However, then it just said no device found. What should I do? does it matter that the client was recognised as scanner instead of a network device? Since I am really new to Linux, I really don't know what exactly is going on behind the scene.

I have a similar wireless client, Buffalo Wireless USB Keychain Adapter. The client works seamlessly in WinXP. However, I don't know how to make it work in Linux. Since I am new to the OS and have not much idea what to do. I've tried the instruction in Linuxant and installed the DriverLoader. However, I just got no device was found and later I found out that the client was identified as an unknown scanner. Could anyone please tell me what to do next. The Linux version I used is also Mandrake 10.1 and the kernel is 2.6.3-7mdk. Furthermore, what is ndiswrapper? is it same as the "DriverLoader" that I've installed?