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From: barnabyh on 8 Jan 2010 22:02
Hello,

anyone got a Ralink USB adapter working with Slackware, and what were
your steps?
I noticed support for these chips in the kernel config for 2.6.30.5 on
Slack 13. Is there anything else to do apart from installing
Wicd?

There's a lot of stuff out there on forums related to problems with
these chips and drivers RT2870 and RT3070, but it's mostly Ubuntu
related and not very informative, as they all seem to have different
problems causing the same symptom- non connectivity. At present the
official drivers seem to be a hit and miss affair.

As I said, how about the support enabled in the kernel. Would this be
enough to work with Wicd?

Thanks.



Barnabyh
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From: Mikhail Zotov on 9 Jan 2010 09:02
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 03:02:12 +0000
barnabyh <address(a)invalid.org> wrote:

> anyone got a Ralink USB adapter working with Slackware, and what were
> your steps?

Install rt71w-firmware-1.8-fw-1.txz and make sure that you have

CONFIG_RT2X00=m
CONFIG_RT73USB=m
CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB=m
CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB=m

if you use a custom kernel so that you see something like

# lsmod | grep rt2
rt2x00usb 6711 1 rt73usb
rt2x00lib 22587 2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb
led_class 2069 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 143456 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 106275 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211

after you plug it in. Or, compile them in the kernel.

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Mikhail

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