[Bradford] Bradford Digest, Vol 11, Issue 3

[Matthew Callaghan]

Sorry all for the lack of reply, I have been commandeered by family and work
so was not able to reply.

To cut it short, No :(

I am however trying plan B, which is good anyway as it involves updating to
Ubuntu 8.10.

Hopefully this will enable my PC to detect a new device when it is in. Which
from some comments seemed quite surprising to some that it didn't.

Probably going to be tomorrow now as fireworks are calling tonight.

Thanks all anyway for your advice and responses.

One thing that i have thought of from this, for the next meeting. For some,
like me, even something like installing is different from windows. I have
installed some programs such as Geany the usual (windows way), but when it
comes to command line it is all alien at the moment so it may be worth while
coming up with a newbie cheat sheet or something.

Just an idea.

Thanks again
Paddy

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> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:38:05 +0000
> From: David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Install a wireless device on linux machine
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> Paddy
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> Did you ever get this working?
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> 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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