Installing ralink rt2870 rt3070 on portable

markush · 01-17-2011, 02:43 AM

You should think about configuring your computer with the authentication-data for you wireless network. Without that the connection cannot be established.

As far as I can see from all your posts, your hardware is working, there's no need to configure anything hardware-related.

Markus

colorpurple21859 · 01-17-2011, 08:36 AM

First lets unload the athos driver;

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modprobe -r ath5k
modprobe -r mac80211
modprobe -r cfg80211

next lets load the rt driver:

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modprobe rt2800usb

next lets see if your usb wireless is detected

Quote:

ifconfig -a

If not then it is the wrong driver and need to try another driver.

schneidz · 01-17-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DMKHAMMER

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wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:d9:7a:43:fa  

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

I believe the hardware address is the atheros native to the computer and it doesnt work because
the hardware switch is blown... I want the ralink as wlan0 and I believe Atheros occupation of
WLAN is blocking me...

i dont think there is anything wrong with having 2 wifi adapters running on the same system (it would essentially be the same as having 2 ethernet nics on the same system).
i would assume the usb one would check in as wlan1 ?