Hi! I'm a beginner in linux, I've installed my first linux: SUSE 9.3 just yesterday. My problem is that at the installation it recognises my Ralink RT2500 (54 Mbps, manufactured by Surecom) WLAN card correctly, but then it just doesn't work. In KDE, YaST tells me that there are no network cards configured, so I try to add a new one, Wireless type, then select from the list, but there are nothing like my card on the list. All I get is some orinoco or something... The closest thing is a "Wlan card with direct PCI interface" but it doesn't work (I type in the WEP key and ESSID and IP numbers correctly) Error message is quite simple: Couldn't connect to the Internet, network card isn't present. I've read on other forums that my card is supported natively on Suse 9.3, so I don't understand why it doesn't work or why I can't see it on the list. I also read something about using a Windows-driver, but this card has an .exe installer, not a separate .inf file for windows. Could somebody tell me how to make my WLAN card work under Linux? ---Another thing, just a question, it doesn't cause problem: How was it possible that Linux recognised my mouse (on the serial port) as an "AT Modem" ??????

Are you able to run the following command with no errors? # iwlist wlan0 scan Do you have any other network cards installed or built onto the motherboard? If your card is supported natively then forget about using ndiswrapper and a windoze driver. If you do use it there is a list of supported cards and what .inf and .sys files to use on this website: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List Having an AT modem on your serial port is not an uncommon thing to have, I figure your istallation just guessed wrong.

I've tried iwlist: command not found. But I read what it should do by "man iwlist" then I tried others like iwconfig: command not found. Do I need to install these commands by YaST? If yes, then please tell me how, because I searched for them but found nothing. I have another network card integrated onto the motherboard but it is disabled in BIOS (I disabled it a long time ago). Maybe I made a mistake in installation. I have absolutely no idea where, I just say that because some things that are supposed to work (like the card being automatically recognised, or the command "iwlist", etc.) do not. Should I try to reinstall the whole Linux? (Wouldn't be a problem, first install took about 20 minutes:)

It may be that iwlist and iwconfig are not in your path if you are logged on as a regular user. Try the following instead: $ /sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan and $ /sbin/iwconfig It may be that you don't have the wireless tools installed, but rather than reinstalling the whole system you should be able to find the files you need on one of your installation CDs. To install it: # rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/path/to/package.rpm

I've tried "iwlist wlan0 scan" but there was an error message saying "this device can't be scanned" - or something like this... Wireless tools were installed, actually I installed everything that had something to do with "wlan" or "wireless" by YaST. I made a little search with google and found this: http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm From here I downloaded the latest driver for linux, extracted the file and I followed the instructions in README how to make the driver (build up from source, I guess) but there were several warnings and two errors (missing files) so it failed and could't make the driver. I downloaded another one, but when I tried to make that driver it said that my Linux version is not supported. Should I try all the versions from that site? By the way, my kernel is linux-2.6.x version. I said before that my card is natively supported... I'm not 100% sure about it now...

"..."this device can't be scanned"..." That means that you have the wireless tools installed and working, you just haven't got a driver loaded for the device. "...and two errors (missing files)..." What were the missing files? Chances are that no matter which driver you download from that site you will need those specific files in order to build it. They are probably either part of a development package or more likely (as you're building a kernel module) you need to have your kernel source and headers installed. Again you should be able to find these on one of your CDs called something like kernel-source-2.6.x.rpm and kernel-headers-2.6.x.rpm. If you post up the last several lines containing the error that will help....

3Dave, Thank you for helping me solving this problem! I uploaded the error message and a list of available packages to this address: http://linux.apaczai.elte.hu/~05cmf (this was my home page in secondary school, a good place to upload things like this) I hope you can figure out what's wrong...