Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870

[nilsa5]

Installing Linux to Ralink RT2870 driver
Mess very much with this myself and found out how it should be done:

1. Downloading the latest drivers http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
(As of this writing, while http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/dr....4.0.0.tar.bz2

2. Extract the archive you downloaded.

3. Open a terminal.

4. Go into the folder you extracted (For me 2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0 cd)

5. Use gedit or nano (the text you like) and open Make File.

6. Watch where the MODE is set to STA (MODE = STA) TARGET is set to LINUX (TARGET = LINUX) save and close.

7. Visit the os / linux (cd os / linux)

8. Open config.mk (with the text you like)

9. Changing these from
Quote
# Support wpa_supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT = n

# Support for Native WpaSupplicant Network Maganger
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT = n
to
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# Support wpa_supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT = y

# Support for Native WpaSupplicant Network Maganger
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT = y

10. Save and Close.

11. Return to 2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0.
12. Run make. (Can you mail error messages back).
13. Run make install as root (sudo make install, send feedback here also love)
14. Visit the os / linux (cd os/linux)
15. Run insmod rt2870sta.ko
16. When will all work after my experience, if not follow the next step.
17. Open /etc/network/interfaces (gedit /etc/network/interfaces).
18. Please enter the first sentence
auto ra0
, Also the other

iface ra0 inet dhcp
(dhcp is standard, you need only change to what suits you love.
19. Then all the work, use encryption, you can configure it with the System> Administration> Network, or network-admin in the terminal.
20. Almost forgot that you must install build-essential (apt-get install build-essential).
21. build-essential to be on CD you installed ubuntu with.
22. How to install build-essential CD.
23. Open the Terminal (Applications> Accessories> Terminal)
24. Run apt-cdrom add-d / cdrom (replace / cdrom with the path cdrom is mounted with you)
25. Run apt-get update.
26. And run apt-get install build-essential.

And as already said please respond to this post, or send a mail to nilsa5@tele2.no

[rotting68]

Thank you so much!! Finally something that works and easily to understand for a newby.

[christoph88]

very nice tutorial finally wireless working without any hassle

[robertki]

Well, this procedure is working just partially for me. But they are a bit different from those provided by RALINK.
The card is not found at startup and the system also freezes then, but it works if I plug it in afterwards....

According to ralink you just have to write make, not make install.afterwards. Why this difference?

Anybody knowing whether there will be automatic support for this chip/card in the future?

[nick77]

I'm happy to confirm your method. I was trying a couple of different ways to compile the module, but none worked; when I tried out wicd (after uninstalling the gnome network manager) I saw, my USB Stick is being recognized though (ie, the module worked!), but I couldn't connect. This reminded me, that wpa_supplicant wasn't enabled in my /os/linux/config.mk as you described file

I first had troubles doing the build process on Intrepid. As I have a Buffalo WLI-UC-G300N USB Wireless Adaptor (Ralink 2870, usb ), I followed a short how-to on a Japanese Blog. Moving the extracted driver files to /usr/src/ solved the problems building it (plus #sudo make).

Further, I added the Device number from the lsusb output: "Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0411:00e8 MelCo., Inc." as line ca 186 in /include/rt2870.h

	{USB_DEVICE(0x0411,0x00e8)}, /* Buffalo */		\

That's it, now I have a connection - however, it shows only 1 Mb/s.... Basestation is a fritz!box fon 7270 with wlan n switched on (as well as g)

Any ideas about the connection speed improvements? My Reception is between 96-100%....

Thanks anyway

Nick

Edit: my speed is now shown as 108 Mbit/s in the base station, as 243 Mbit/s in the network manager info dialog; seems to be perfect!

[RaZoR1394]

I posted this wiki a while ago during the Intrepid beta. It works for me under both Intrepid and Jaunty alpha.

http://ubunturt2870.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

I have cleaned it up a bit.

[wangsuda]

There is another way to install Ralink drivers, and this is the one that I used. Works great!

- Download rt2860-source_1.8.0.0-3_all.deb from

http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/r...ource/download

wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/poo....0.0-3_all.deb

- install source .deb:

sudo dpkg -i rt2860-source_1.8.0.0-3_all.deb

- compile

sudo aptitude install debhelper module-assistant

sudo module-assistant auto-install rt2860

- install the module

sudo modprobe rt2860sta

this should activate the new wireless interface without reboot

[Brausepaul]

wangsuda, right now my /etc/modules contains

alias ra0 rt2870sta

This should work the same way like your proposal, or am I wrong? Or do you want me to add your line in addition?

[wangsuda]

wangsuda, right now my /etc/modules contains

alias ra0 rt2870sta

This should work the same way like your proposal, or am I wrong? Or do you want me to add your line in addition?

All you need is the name of the driver module for it to boot automatically, hence just

rt2860sta

added to the /etc file.

[Brausepaul]

I changed my /etc/modules file to

fuse
lp
rtc
#alias ra0 rt2870sta
rt2860sta

but I still have to run sudo insmod rt2870sta.ko manually to get my wireless to work.