Comments on: Edimax EW-7318USg with the RT73 Enhanced Driver

By: James

James — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:26:05 +0000

After reading few How to’s and getting more familiar with Linux (especially BT 4 Final) thanks to Jeff I confirm that this one works. I’ve never used Linux before and I had some trouble getting Edimax to work with Enhanced RT73 drivers but now there’s no problem with airmon-ng, aireplay-ng, kismet and aircrack-ng. Here’s a quick manual. First blacklist already existing drivers (http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=rt73), then proceed with Step Installing on the top of the page.
wget http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.3.tar.bz2
tar -xjf rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.3.tar.bz2
cd rt73-k2wrlz-3.0.3/Module
Now write – nano rtmp_def.h
Find the VID/PID, do what Jeff said, then make, make install, reboot, modprobe rt73, plug Edie and youre ready to go.
P.S. Firstly I’ve tried to locate rtmp_def.h after the Installing procedure. File was found in /usr/bin/linux-source-2.6.30.9/drivers/staging/rt2860/rtmp_def.h
But there was no VID/PID Area…

By: Felipe Martins

Felipe Martins — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:54:17 +0000

I cant express how thankful I am for you having created this article. Its the kind of thing that makes us wanna help other people after receiving such a nice and useful help. Thanks again

By: anon

anon — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:28:59 +0000

In rtmp_def.h, does the pasted text go before /* end marker */ or after, because when I paste it after, the code isn’t highlighted in purple like the other values..

By: fri

fri — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:07:53 +0000

alguen pude decirme k significa “retire el modulo de kernel”?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:38:21 +0000

Lukk,

Are you booting from a flash drive or CD? If the latter, I would recommend booting BT from a flash drive. It’s pretty easy to run in a persistent mode.

By: Lukk

Lukk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:06:38 +0000

Hi.have the same problem with edimax.but don have enought knowleade about linux.i’m using bt3 live cd and if i change this file i need to done this every single time when i start again bt3 live cd?So it will be so great if someone tell mi how make it work step by step

By: Ricardo Duarte

Ricardo Duarte — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:52:42 +0000

Jeff,

I’ve the same problem as Andrea.

I see my ssid but can’t connect.

I’m using Ubuntu 9.04 i386
–
ricardo@earth:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist rt73usb
blacklist rt2570
blacklist rt2500usb
blacklist rt2×00lib

–
ricardo@earth:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:7318
–
ricardo@earth:~$ lshw -c Network
*-network:2
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 3
logical name: rausb0
serial: 00:1f:1f:4d:be:96
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=RT73 WLAN

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:50:09 +0000

Ok. I installed it. it seems working but it actually isn’t! First of all I need to reboot my pc every time I want to see the available wireless networks. Then, I can oly see them (it does not show me the strnght of the signal) and it does not let me connect at any of them, even my own one or the ones with no passwords.
Any help? pleaseeee. This is so wired! I can see the wireless connections but I cannot connect to them!! =(

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:20:47 +0000

I just got this adapter today and I do not understand how to install it. Can someone please help me? after I add that line and i type “make install” it gives me an error.
SOmeone please? what do I do wrong?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:25:37 +0000

@Greeker: Not using a VWware image. Sorry!