[Bradford] Install a wireless device on linux machine

[David Carpenter]

Paddy

Did you ever get this working?

David
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 06:49 +0000, Philip Wyett wrote:
> 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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