[H-GEN] FW: Hello and Question

[De Crow]

Ok Hello all, welcome the n00b :P

A friend of mine is a regular attendee over at humbug.

I have a question, I'm in the process of building myself a Wireless Access
Point, out of older components. Most of the components are a fairly easy to
get running under linux, A Dual P100 with a IDE main HDD, and a SCSI SWAP
HDD, a 3COM 3c905B-TX NIC, and an S3 PCI Graphics Card. The problem is the
wireless card, or wireless in general, as I have no experience with it under
linux.

The chipset of the Card is a Ralink RT2560
http://www.ralink.com.tw/prod-07.htm

The Card is CNET CWP854
http://www.cnet.com.tw/product/cwp-854.htm

Now the chipset site says that it has linux support, but has no driver
downloads on the site, I've emailed the manufacturer but have received no
response. And the CNET guys said to contact Ralink :(

I was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas on how to get this to
work? I know that I'll have to compile a kernel for this, I'm compiling one
anyways for SCSI support, at the moment it's running Debian Woody. 2.2.20

sbin/lspci output
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82434LX [Mercury/Neptune] (rev 11)
00:01.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR)
53c810 (rev 02)
00:02.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378IB [SIO ISA Bridge]
(rev 88)
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0
00:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink]
(rev 74)
00:08.0 Network controller: Unknown device 1814:0201 (rev 01)

uname -r output
2.2.20-idepci
But will be installing 2.4.25 after compile of kernel

I might turn up to the next meeting if I can :)

Any help on this problem would be much appreciated.

Crowy