[Bradford] Install a wireless device on linux machine

[Philip Wyett]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:57 +0000, David Spencer wrote:
> >From a bit of googling, it looks like it's an ralink chip of some sort.
> The rt2x00 drivers have been in-kernel since 2.6.24, but the USB id may
> be new and/or Ubuntu may not have enabled them until later than 8.04.
> The obvious advice is to upgrade to 8.10, particularly as there's a
> comment on the play.com forum that it 'just works' in the 'latest'
> Ubuntu (why are these damn lusers never *specific*?).  But the advice to
> upgrade will probably go down like a bucket of cold sick on this mailing
> list.  Oh well.
> 
> -D.
> 

Hi,

You are correct that the chipset is ralink and the 7717 device uses the
rt2x00 module and it has been a part of the 2.6.24 kernel for some time.
However, support for the specific device and newness of the driver in
the mainline kernel package is not guaranteed. The first option is not
to upgrade the whole distribution but to install the backports-modules
package which includes newer backported ralink kernel modules. ;-)

The package to install is: linux-backports-modules-hardy

The above package will always depend on the latest backports package for
the installed kernel and install them as dependencies. After installing
and rebooting to check the drivers are available, from the terminal run:
dmesg | grep usb

The output should show the ralink device as present.

Regards

Phil
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