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on January 25, 2009 at 6:15:16 pm
 

Ralink rt2870 (USB) Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex RELEASE / Jaunty Jackalope alpha HOWTO

 

This is an howto on getting the rt2870 Wifi 802.11abgn chipset to work with Intrepid Ibex 8.10 RELEASE i386 and amd64. It has also been tested on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope i386 alpha 3+.

 

It was tested on two ENGENIUS EUB-9701 EXT - EUB9701X2 which contain the rt2870 chipset made by Ralink. Since the 1.4.0.0 driver it is very easy to install the driver. The first three steps can be done in Firefox and Nautilus if you wish. The second last should be used in the Gnome terminal.

 

Retrieve the driver

 

wget http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0.tar.bz2

 

Extract the compressed driver directory and files.

 

tar xvfj 2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0.tar.bz2

 

Enter the new directory

 

cd 2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0

 

Compile and install. 

 

sudo make

sudo make install

 

Modprobe the new driver if you want to use it instantly

 

sudo modprobe rt2870sta

 

Networkmanager should see your available networks within one minute.

 

The driver should autoload on each reboot.

 

Please push the Ubuntu developers to integrate this module into Ubuntu.

 

The rt2870 chipset will within time have support within the Linux kernel (rt2x00).

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