Help for a beginner, installing wireless USB stick drivers

[Fiuman]

Hello. I recently installed Fedora 13 because I got sick of windows, and I saw that linux comunity is extremely friendly. I am REALY new to linux, so working in terminal is something I still have a lot of problems with. This is the issue, I have a Canyon wireless USB that wont start in Fedora 13. I spend last couple of days going trough different forums and helps, so I managed to type lsusb in terminal and find out that I have Raling RT2501 based wireless adapter. I went on their site, downloaded the linux drivers and started folowing the instalation instructions. To begin it says that I need to $tar -xvzf ..... .tar.gz. When i type that it says no file or folder.
1. Where do I have to place the archive before trying to extract it(it's in home currently, seamed wise )
2. Archives extension is tar.bz2, I tried typing that instead of tar.gz, but no use

After that i extracted it using GUI, figured it was the same (Wrong?). second step was to go to module directory, and i did, had to type $cp Makefile.6 ./Makefile, I did that, no errors reported.
Next step is the problem, I had to type $ make all and then $make install, this step, on different forums in different forms (something like make all && make) always produced the same resault "No such file or directory". What am I doing wrong? Can somebody help me with a step by step walktrough, or refer me to where I can find something usefull?

[stoat]

I don't have any practice with your wireless adapter. Sorry. But regarding the compiling problem, you probably need to install kernel-devel or kernel-PAE-devel (depending on your kernel), and kernel-headers.

P.S.: I saw your kernel version in your other thread. You should install kernel-devel and kernel-headers. Then try compiling again. If you can't connect to the Internet with a wired NIC to install them with yum, then set up the InstallMedia repo and install them from the DVD. Or, just copy the two packages from the DVD and manually install them with the the rpm command.

[Fiuman]

Thank you for the reply, the steps you suggested made some progress, but now this is the result I get when I type make:

[Goran@soba ~]$ tar -xvzf rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
rt73-cvs-2007042709/
rt73-cvs-2007042709/FAQ
rt73-cvs-2007042709/THANKS
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CHANGELOG
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CVS/
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CVS/Root
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CVS/Repository
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CVS/Entries.Log
rt73-cvs-2007042709/CVS/Entries
rt73-cvs-2007042709/TESTING
rt73-cvs-2007042709/LICENSE
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/auth.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rt73.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rt73.bin
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rt2x00debug.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/md5.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtusb_data.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_main.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rt_config.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/assoc.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/CVS/
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/CVS/Root
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/CVS/Repository
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/CVS/Entries
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/ifcfg-rausb0
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/wpa.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/sync.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_info.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/iwpriv_usage.txt
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtusb_bulk.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/mlme.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/connect.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_tkip.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/auth_rsp.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/oid.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_init.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtusb_io.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rt73sta.dat
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/mlme.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/md5.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/wpa.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_wep.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_def.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/Makefile
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/rtmp_type.h
rt73-cvs-2007042709/Module/sanity.c
rt73-cvs-2007042709/README
[Goran@soba ~]$ cd rt73-cvs-20070402709
bash: cd: rt73-cvs-20070402709: No such file or directory
[Goran@soba ~]$ cd rt73-cvs-2007042709
[Goran@soba rt73-cvs-2007042709]$ cd Module
[Goran@soba Module]$ make
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: gcc: command not found
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 26: gcc: command not found
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686'
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/arch/x86/Makefile:81: stack protector enabled but no compiler support
make[1]: gcc: Command not found
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 0 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686'
rt73.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] Error 1
[Goran@soba Module]$

Who would say I would be happy to see some new errors showing up .

Thank you.

[stoat]

Well, now I think you need to install Development Tools.

su
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"