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8 October 2006

installing a linksys WNP54G wireless pci card in debian (etch)

by Anton Piatek

EDIT: try this way first! It is a hell of a lot simpler

I bought this card to avoid cables allover my house, and when looking at cards (it was quite cheap on dabs) did a quick search for linux support. Satisfied I bought the card.

Well, it turned up today and the reality was that installing the driver was a little harder than i thought…

At first i thought i was going to have use ndiswrapper and use the windows driver, but I didn’t like that idea, so kept searching. I eventually found that there is a real driver from ralink http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
Getting it working though was not as simple as installing a package.

iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.9
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-driver ralink
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Hope this helps somebody else, but drop me an email if you think I can help you

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