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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.18-4
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Distribution:
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Debian (etch)
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I bought this device because I hadn't been able to get my Broadcom 1390 wifi device, which comes with my laptop to work under Linux. I knew that Ralink are much more open and helpful towards free driver implementations.
Unfortunately did NOT work straight out of the box. I went and downloaded the latest version of the Linux driver here: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz
I downloaded them on 20070303
Unpacked everything to /usr/lib
I needed to install the kernel headers so that i could compile the driver.
in the directory /usr/lib/rt73-cvs-2007030222/Module
i used
make
make install
the module hadn't loaded by itself so i used
modprobe rt73
then configured my network settings as normal
so to recap
download the driver source from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
unpack and go to Module directory
make
make install
modprobe rt73
configure network as per usual
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