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RT73 Based wifi works out of the box with linux-sabayon-2.6.27+}}

The modules are in portage, however, I couldn't get it to work with the ones included in 3.2 DVD and [[lsmod]] would actually show both the [[rt2500]] and [[rt73]] modules loaded. I tried for about 3 hours to get it to work with the one for my card, which uses the rt73 module.

The modules are also available at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

1. Download the daily [[CVS]] from the above address - rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz

2. Extract it:

{{Console| <pre class="clear">tar xzfvp rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz</pre>}}

3. Remove the ones that are in portage:

{{Console| <pre class="clear">
# emerge -C rt2500
# emerge -C rt73
# emerge -C rt73-firmware</pre>}}

4. Remove the left over modules in your kernel modules directory, since I am still running 2.6.18-gentoo-4,
mine are at:

{{Console| <pre class="clear">rm /lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/net/rt2500.ko
rm /lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r4/net/rt73.ko</pre>}}

5. Change to the directory you extracted the daily cvs:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># cd rt73*/Module</pre>}}

6. Make and make install:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># make && make install</pre>}}

7. Edit the file /etc/modules.d/rt73 and change it to:

{{File|/etc/modules.d/rt73| <pre class="clear">#alias usbra? rt73
alias ra0 rt73</pre>}}

8. Run modules-update force:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># modules-update force</pre>}}

9. Load the module:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># modprobe rt73</pre>}}

10. Now, run the command [[iwconfig]] and it should show something about rausb0 but it wont have an ip address yet.

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># iwconfig</pre>}}

11. create the net.rausb0 by linking it to net.eth0 in init.d directory:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.rausb0</pre>}}

12. If you don't need anything special, such as setting ESSID or Encryption, you can go ahead and now run:

{{Console| <pre class="clear"># /etc/init.d/net.rausb0 start</pre>}} And use default settings.

13.If you need to set [[ESSID]] or Encryption, you will need to modify /etc/conf.d/wireless

14. When done, you should be able to run [[iwconfig]] and show your connected settings:

{{Console| <pre class="clear">localhost ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

vmnet1 no wireless extensions.

vmnet8 no wireless extensions.

rausb0 RT73 WLAN ESSID:"tSp"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:A5:A4:F5
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr=65534 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=77/100 Signal level:-62 dBm Noise level:-99 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0</pre>}}

--[[User:Thev00d00|Thev00d00]] 20:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=2862

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