# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network MagangerĤ.) Afterwards the driver needs to be build and installed.
Ralink rt2870 3.2.9.0 install#
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`Ģ.) Now the source for the Linux driver needs to be downloaded from the Linux support page of Ralink Technology.Therefore it is needed to install certain tools and the headers of the running kernel: Still this version was not tested by me but I am happy if you leave a comment about your experiences.ġ.) First thing is to prepare the system for the driver compilation.
UPDATE (2): The links to the official Ralink drivers have been updated as version 2.2.0.0 of the driver package was released in Aug 2009. The following posts have been of good use to me, still they have been a way too complicated or did not describe the way I got it working: “Followup on the Belkin F5D8053 and Ubuntu”, “Install linux drivers for ralink rt2870” or “rt2870”. But I didn’t have a 64 bit Windows driver at hand, so I decided to use the original Linux driver provided by Ralink Technology. My first try to get it working was with ndiswrapper.
It showed up that it is a Ralink RT2870 USB Stick, somehow integrated although I haven’t found it yet. However the built-in WLAN adapter was not working. I recently bought a Siemens Fujitsu Desktop PC PI 3645 and was really amazed that nearly all hardware was working out of the box with Kubuntu 8.10 64bit. The native Linux driver provided by Ralink Technology is being used. This is a HowTo about getting a Ralink RT2870 WLAN USB Stick on a Siemens Fujitsu PI 3645 with (K)Ubuntu 8.10 64bit (Intrepid Ibex) to work.