no wifi driver for ralink rt2860

dmesg attachament

don't know if that's really important:

bruno@r405:~$ cat /proc/version_signature > version.log
bruno@r405:~$ cat version.log
Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic
bruno@r405:~$

uname attachement

The driver now compile on 2.6.24 (new version). I've made it work in Arch Linux (using the community packages and some tweak).

The new version actually work out of the box on ubuntu

http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0325_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.6.1.0.tar.bz2

just make and cp the firmware and make install and modprobe.

Hey Bruno, would you mind giving a hand in getting this one to work on Hardy?
i managed to compile it and that's about it. can't seem to get it to connect to anything. scans fine however and sees my access point.
Help would be great.

If someone wants to help with this one just email me. If i manage to get it working i will put together a how-to

reported upstream: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10754

Got it working on Ubuntu and Slackware (iwlist scan give me result). I got wicd to work on Slackware using Slackbuild. On Ubuntu, NetworkManager just can't see it. I'll try to get it working on ubuntu now. I had weird error about wpa_supplicant

Turned out to be easier than expected. uncompresse the driver. cd driver. make. make install. then:

root@r405:~# modprobe rt2860sta
root@r405:~# ifconfig ra0 up
root@r405:~# vim /etc/network/interfaces added: auto ra0
root@r405:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
Ignoring unknown interface ra0=ra0.
                                                                                                                                                                                                           [ OK ]
root@r405:~# ps faux | grep NetworkManager
root 5290 0.0 0.1 13916 2140 ? Ssl 18:46 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
root 5304 0.0 0.0 3536 1324 ? Ss 18:46 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher.pid
root 11211 0.0 0.0 3012 756 pts/0 S+ 18:50 0:00 \_ grep Net
root@r405:~# kill 5290
root@r405:~# kill 5304
root@r405:~# /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
root@r405:~# /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher.pid

and NetworkManager restart and I now see all the wireless devices around. I don't know if every steps were necessary, but it worked here.

I wonder if we could call the fact that Network Manager doesn't see my wifi card when I load the driver, a bug?

I'll give it a shot on hardy, so far i can get it to compile and it sees the interface but I'm having problems getting it to associate with anything so far.
it shows that it is connected at 1Mbps and that is it (network manager not installed).
I'll take a look at it and see if i can get it to work.

How's you interface file look like? i can't seem to get it to associate correctly. I got WPA2 with TKIP setup

Hi Bruno
I have a zepto notebook with a ralink rt2860. I have a fresh install of 8.04 (the 64 bit version). I followed the steps you wrote and got the rt2860 to work partially. When I click on the NetworkManager icon in the "taskbar" it doesn't see anything (no networks, and not even the wireless card). But if I go to network settings the wireless connection is shown - clicking on properties and disabling roaming, I can see all the available networks in the ESSID list, but I can't connect.
Any Ideas ?
Any and all help is appreciated :)

I _had_ this driver working until this morning when update manager vomited a new kernel onto me and now it's totally not working. A distro switch is looking awfully tempting right now. I don't see what the huge problem with this is. The manufacturer has the module source on the website.

Hello Bruno,

it would be nice if you could explain how you compiled the Ralink-driver.
Which pakets are needed? kernel-headers, build-essential?
(currently I am using xubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4.1)

Many thanks!

Manuel

you shouldn't need anything more then build-essential and
kernel-headers.
don't forget to read the read me file on what you need to change

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 06:05 +0000, Balou1974 wrote:
> Hello Bruno,
>
> it would be nice if you could explain how you compiled the Ralink-driver.
> Which pakets are needed? kernel-headers, build-essential?
> (currently I am using xubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4.1)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Manuel
>

Hi Guys,

This actually looks like a duplicate request of bug 210725 (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/210725/comments/8) . Bug 210725 has already been Triaged and assigned to the kernel team to look at. I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of that report. Please continue to follow up with any future progress/feedback using that bug report. Thanks