Re: Getting ralink driver working?



On 05/14/2011 03:26 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running
2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.

I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is:

$ lspci -nn | grep Network
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n
2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]

The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is supported
by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver says to install
wireless-tools and firmware-ralink. I did this. But wireless still doesn't show
up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that any wireless thing exists. If i try
to load module directly:

$ sudo modprobe rt2860sta
FATAL: Module rt2860sta not found.

even though firmware-ralink is installed.

Is there something i need to do to activeate this card?

Thank you and sorry for newbish question!



Look here

/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-amd64/modules.order:kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.ko
o

Thanks to both people who pointed this out. This module wasnt loaded by default
but it worked with modprobe, so i put it into
/etc/modules and its working now.

The one problem is that i dont see any sign of my 802.11n network. Its only
seeing the 2.4GHz G network. A Ubuntu machine with an Intel 5100

AGN card does see the 5GHz network. But this is probably a different problem so
i will play with it for a bit an ask again in the right thread.


Thanks!

Jen.


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