Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

**chili555** · December 31st, 2011

make: *** [LINUX] Error 2

When you get to this point, stop and proceed no farther. All further steps will also be erroneous.

Can you confirm that you have build-essential installed?

**imu96** · December 31st, 2011

i don't think i have it...

i run sabayon which is gentoo based

when i tried running the command

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sudo build-essential

i got

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sudo: build-essential: command not found

i tried looking for it in ubuntu software centre's sabayon equivalent (entropy) but it said that it wasn't there.

i then tried the command

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emerge build-essential

but that did not work either as it just said that

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emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "build-essential".

emerge: searching for similar names... nothing similar found.

**chili555** · December 31st, 2011

i run sabayon which is gentoo based

Sorry, I know very little about Sayayon/Gentoo.

build-essential is all the build tools required to compile these things. In Ubuntu it includes dpkg-dev, g++, gcc, libc6-dev and make. I'm sorry I can't help you further.

**Kemikal04** · July 11th, 2012

Great post, thanks

**v3ng3ful** · March 28th, 2013

Sorry for bringing up this post, I just have to add a piece of wisdom in it, if it's not already been done. Today I could confirm, rt3070sta, a driver similar -if not the same- to 2870, could not connect to a network in channel 3 (maybe even more). Although I was able to connect after changing my router to channel 1. I tested 0 and 5 country regions in RT2870STA.DAT, as well as other options without any results. I just felt like posting it here, just in case someone experiences the same problem. To be honest, putting the info from all around the net together to install this &*#$, gave me some hard time.

Best Regards