maestrobwh1
08-25-2009, 07:59 PM
I have an Asus EEE-Box with the ralink rt2860sta wireless card. Kernel 2.6.30 and later support this but if you are using 2.6.28 it will not; however, the linux driver from the ralink site does compile and install easily enough for any of the kernels previous to 2.6.30:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
sudo apt-get install build-essential
untar the file
open a terminal and cd to the untarred directory - you'll get a random make error after the module is compiled and it seems irrelevant
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rt2860sta
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo ifconfig ra0 up
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid any
sudo dhclient ra0
You have to stop network-manager or dhclient will hang and time out. If you use your own essid, for some reason the same thing happens.
This might be of help to others - wireless ralink devices that use interface ra0 do not show up with the version of network manager in Lenny.
Known issue - remove networkmanager, install wicd In the first tab under scripts, add this in the pre-connect field
iwconfig ra0 essid any
or it will hang trying to find an ip address. I do not know why this is and it might just be my router, as it seems to happen on half of my machines running different versions of linux.
There might be a way to manually configure a file in network manager, but I always found it a bit more fussy than wicd anyway.[/code]
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
sudo apt-get install build-essential
untar the file
open a terminal and cd to the untarred directory - you'll get a random make error after the module is compiled and it seems irrelevant
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe rt2860sta
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
sudo ifconfig ra0 up
sudo iwconfig ra0 essid any
sudo dhclient ra0
You have to stop network-manager or dhclient will hang and time out. If you use your own essid, for some reason the same thing happens.
This might be of help to others - wireless ralink devices that use interface ra0 do not show up with the version of network manager in Lenny.
Known issue - remove networkmanager, install wicd In the first tab under scripts, add this in the pre-connect field
iwconfig ra0 essid any
or it will hang trying to find an ip address. I do not know why this is and it might just be my router, as it seems to happen on half of my machines running different versions of linux.
There might be a way to manually configure a file in network manager, but I always found it a bit more fussy than wicd anyway.[/code]