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Just to let you know: in order to get connected to my AP using the rt2500(pci) driver, I had to add ifconfig ra0 up and the mac address of the AP. So, currently, the corresponding section of /etc/networking/interfaces is:

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig ra0 up
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid x
pre-up iwconfig ra0 key restricted y
pre-up iwconfig ra0 ap a:b:c:d:e:f

[link to a related post in rt2500(pci) forum

So, finally I decided not to take the zen patchset and start from debian's linux kernel. Here is how I did it (note that I did that as root, thus no fakeroot but still a make xconfig):

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.24
apt-get install build-essential
cd /usr/src
tar -jxf linux-source-2.6.24.tar.bz2
wget http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/fbcondecor/archive/fbcondecor-0.9.4-2.6.24-rc7.patch
wget http://www.tuxonice.net/downloads/all/tuxonice-3.0-rc5-for-2.6.24.patch.bz2
cd linux-source-2.6.24
patch -p1 < ../fbcondecor-0.9.4-2.6.24-rc7.patch
bzip2 -d -c ../tuxonice-3.0-rc5-for-2.6.24.patch.bz2 | patch -p1
make xconfig
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --initrd --revision=jdd.1.0 kernel_source kernel_headers kernel_image modules_clean modules_image

Please note that I explicitely left unchecked the ralink that is in the mainline tarball. Instead I built all the ralink modules family using the cvs snapshots that are at the rt2x00 download page. On one of my desktop I need rt2570 module, and oh well, it works. Hibernation as well. I'll try on another desktop, that needs rt2500pci.

Packages has been uploaded to:

deb http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/kernel sid main
deb-src http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/kernel sid main

If you are going to use uvesa graphic driver, then you must also install the v86d userspace helper. You can take it from here:

## v86d executable
deb http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/v86d sid contrib
deb-src http://jeandamiendurand.free.fr/debian/v86d sid contrib

The "uname -a" output is now:

Linux jddhome01 2.6.24 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 5 21:21:52 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

My full .config is here.

Wouaouh, the linux kernel 2.6.24 is out. I gave it a try, together with the zen-sources but, bad luck since a long time with linux kernel, the version of rt2x00 that is now in the mainline is somewhat buggy. Indeed, even if I do not mind seeing my good old ra0 device between moved to two devices: wmaster0 and wlan0 (after changing /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules, otherwise you get a wlan0_renamed device!), I never manager to associate to my AP!
So I will give it another try, sure, but I will not compile rt2x00 family that is in the official tarball. Crossing fingers.

EDIT: ahem, just easy as quoted here