Strangeparty

So I got my card working not long ago, then went and bought a amd64 pc and had to do it all again. It wasn’t a walk in the park last time, and this time the driver would compile but wouldn’t load. I was about to email the amd64 debian mailing list when I found someone saying to try the rt2×00 driver. So I did…

module-assistant get rt2×00
module-assistant build rt2×00
module-assistant install rt2×00
modrpobe rt2×00

All fine, so I decided to try loading up the card.
my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MySSID
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpasupplicant.conf

and my /etc/wpasupplicant.conf was modified from the wpa example supplied with the wpasupplicant package (/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant) and looks like

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
ssid=”my ssid”
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=”my wifi key”
}

Then running

ifup wlan0

and I am connected.

Sooo much simpler than the other way I did it

EDIT: Don’t forget (like I did first) to grab the firmware from ralink as the driver won’t work without the firmware files!

Since I last had to install the nvidia drivers in debian, things have changed a bit.

It used to be fiddly to get the nvidia drivers installed, but if you are running etch (or later) you should just be able to run (as root)

apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx
module-assistant auto-install nvidia
module-assistant install nvidia

Then just edit your X config (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and change the driver line with “nv” to “nvidia” and restart your window manager and all should be running.

There is a wonderful howto with loads more detail at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html