Ralink and 9.10

So how do I get this to work?

I have the driver but when I compile (with the Makefile) I just get errors.

my device is Ralink 2870. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 32bit fresh install.

I can see some networks but not my Wireless N WPA2 network.

any ideas?

Thanks a million, If get this to work I will have one less windows computer in my house...

 

Find the windows XP driver and use ndis-gtk

 

Compiling the driver and installing it is pretty straightforward, especially if you follow a good howto, like this one. Maybe you didn't edit your config.mk file prior to compiling the module. What steps did you use to do this?

Good Luck..

 

so I did try this, here is what I did.
download and extract the tar file.
I'm pretty sure I modified the config.mk,
I type make in terminal and It executes, but the last line says "error 2".
I'll try it again to get more details.

Edit this is exactly what I typed: after I downloaded Ralink driver (I think it's a new version)

tar xvf -driver tar ball name-.tgz
cd /os/linux/
gedit config.mk&
made the 2 changes saved and closed.
cd ../..(back to root)
sudo make (it compiles a who pile of stuff the last line has error 2 on it.)
then I tried,
sudo make install
but it too returned an error 2.

On some of the preceding lines there is a lot of permission denied" and can't find directory etc. any ideas?

I just tried again, I followed the guide EXACTLY (I redownloaded the files and everything) and I get the same result. but I stopped at at sudo make install as It wasn't compiling.

 

You need to perform a patch on the driver source before you compile and install the module in Linux kernels version 2.6.31 or newer. The instructions are in this Ubuntu Launchpad Bug report. Here are the steps you need to do;

1) From the root of the driver directory, and before you issue the "sudo make" command; download the required patch with;

Code:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35348337/rt2870-2.6.31.patch

2) Then apply the patch with the following command;

Code:

patch -p1 < rt2870-2.6.31.patch

You should now be able to compile the module with "sudo make" and install with "sudo make install" as you've been doing. Then follow the remaining steps from the previous howto to complete the process.

Good Luck..

P.S. I'm running a 2.6.31-r5 Linux kernel, (Gentoo), and the ralink 2870 driver is included in kernel. If you've built your own kernel, or plan to do so, and you have a new enough kernel version, you can check to see if the ralink driver is included in your kernel, and if so, configure and install it from there.

 

the driver is included, but it doesn't work with N cards etc. so I will need to blacklist it, but that's ok. thanks so much, I give it a try in a couple mins!

It's not working...
This is what I did:
reextracted the tar
modified the config.mk
returned to the root copied the patch file to the root
type the command you posted and I get a response:
The program 'patch' is currently not installed. You can install in by typing sudo apt-get install patch


any more ideas? thanks so much!

 

Well, is patch installed?

 

The linux patch program needs to be installed in order to execute the patch modifications. You need to install the patch program for your linux distribution via the instruction listed;

Code:

sudo apt-get install patch

Then try completing the patch process.

Good Luck..

 

It seems like Ubuntu 9.10 borks up Ralink somehow. I was forked until I installed 9.04 again and that's all the info that I have.