Ralink RT2870 wireless USB adapter - Mepis 11 2.6.36 kernel

ko · Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:23 pm

At long last I found a link that has enabled me to succesfully compile and install my .deb for my DWA140 Wireless-N USB adapter in M11 using its 2.6.36 kernel.
Previously I used a Debian 2.6.32 kernel, since it became apparent that compiling under kernels >= 2.6.35 was impossible.
The following link explains why there is a problem and provides a fix [See under EDIT there].
And it works on the M11 Mepis kernel 2.6.36....:-) And I belief that it will work for all RT2870 based wireless usb-adapters (many brands)

http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=852.0

[EDIT]
Newer kernels >= 2.6.35 will fail to compile (make) the driver because the driver makes use of the functions usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free() which were renamed in kernel 2.6.35 ..
so if during the next (make && make install) step it fails with this error:


	Quote: make[2]: * [/home/mark/Desktop/RT2870/os/linux/../../common/cmm_mac_usb.o] Error 1 make[1]: * [_module_/home/mark/Desktop/RT2870/os/linux] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-27-generic' make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

or similar.

The fix is to cd to the driver source directory (eg. 2010_0709_RT28 70_Linux_STA_v 2.4.0.1), and run the following 3 commands which will clean the build directory and replace the old calls with the new ones:


	Code: make clean find . -name \.[ch] -exec grep usb_buffer_alloc "{}" ";" -exec sed -i 's/usb_buffer_alloc/usb_alloc_coherent/g' "{}" ";" find . -name \.[ch] -exec grep usb_buffer_free "{}" ";" -exec sed -i 's/usb_buffer_free/usb_free_coherent/g' "{}" ";"

(hitting enter after each line)

Ko

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