faulty driver rt2870sta

[Matthew Copple]

I actually had both drivers listed -- the problem seemed to be that
they were conflicting with one another. Once I blacklisted the rt2800
it picked up the rt2870sta fine.

I'm running Lucid with all the latest updates.

Matthew Copple
mcopple at kcopensource.org

2010/9/14 Asbjørn Gabrielsen <asbjoerngabrielsen at gmail.com>:
> Hi
> I've come across a problem with the Ralink RT2870 (rt2870sta) wifi
> driver in lucid. My adapter is wrongly recognized as an rt2800 chipset
> and lucid loads the rt2800usb driver, instead of the rt2870sta. The
> 2800-driver doesn't work with my adapter.
>
> After 13 hours of googling and trying different approaches, I've got the
> adapter to work. I had to blacklist the rt2800-driver and download the
> latest driver from the Ralink website. I then had to modify the driver's
> device list for the new driver to include my adaptor and the config.mk
> file to activate WPA encryption. This should be an easy fix for the
> maverick release.
>
> The new driver is found here: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2
> (RT2870 chipset)
> The missing device in the list (/common/rtusb_dev_id.c) is the Gigabyte
> AirCruiser N300, GN-WB31N-RH, usb id 1044:800C
> WPA-support can be activated in the file /os/linux/config.mk
>
> Best regards
> Asbjørn Gabrielsen
> Oslo, Norway
>
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Matthew G. Copple
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