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Originally Posted by TobiSGD
The rt2870sta-driver handles the device Ralink 2070 USB, as stated in the Supported Devices section in the wiki, otherwise i would have pointed you to the section for a different driver. Please do as stated in the wiki.
To install the firmware and wireless-tools just do aptitude -t lenny-backports install firmware-ralink wireless-tools.
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I did follow wiki regarding the modprobe rt2860sta but I got an error from that saying
FATAL: module rt2860sta not found.
Then I read
Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2860sta driver. Ralink 802.11g USB devices are supported by the rt73usb and rt2500usb drivers.
So I then tried both modprobe rt2500usb and rt73usb to see if they might work
On both occasions it went back to debian:/home/neil#
Then I realised I had not installed the lenny-backports/firmware-ralink and wireless-tools package.
The firmware will not install nor will synaptics package manager open
After a reboot I tried to access the Synaptic Package Manager.
After it accepted my password an error box came up saying:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg --configure –a’ to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report
I have ran the command but I still get locked out.
This is when I referred to the killall command I used to try and end the process.
I have also tried aptitude -t lenny-backports install firmware-ralink wireless-tools but that failed as well.
This is my first go at anything Linux and I am trying as best I can, but as you can probably see I am not doing too well. :-<
So I think because I forgot to install the lenny-backports/firmware-ralink and wireless-tools package could be were the problem is? And if it is how do I correct the lock out I have created please?