DLink and rt61 driver
To make data transferts through the Abbey of Floreffe, we bought D-Link DWL-G510 wifi cards. A good idea to retrieve via rsync the half hundred hours of live records on the two stages. A good idea .. except when the driver doesn’t work …
My first option was the rt2×00 driver provided by the rt2×00-source debian package. The stable package contains a very old realese of the driver. I tested the unstable one .. which doesn”t compile ..
My second option was the officiel rt61 driver. I followed the very complete explanation on the rt61 driver install provided by Vivek.
But after compiling and installing it, I had to conclude it doesn’t work. iwconfig was unable to set the essid …
At this time, our two wifi satellites were in a bad way .. But Flow proposed the miracle solution : one of his co-workers is a ralink driver hacker. Indeed, Vincent goes me the right advice : use the enhanced legacy drivers. With his help, the right driver was installed in few minutes .. and the wifi card connected our wep network 
Let’s do wifi in Esperanzah! And many many many thanks to Vincent.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
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