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Friday, January 05, 2007

RaLink RT2500 wifi card and wpa encryption

i always forget how to setup a my realtek rt2500 wifi card, so i decided to write it down.

get drivers from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

build module 
cd Modules
make
make install
echo 'alias ra0 rt2500' >> /etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe rt2500
and here is the configuration 
iwconfig ra0 essid your_essid
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="password"
dhcpcd -d ra0
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