I put in the wireless LAN card into the usb port, being new to Ubuntu i'd expect something like Windows… Auto installing itself, but nothing happened.
With the card I have a disc for the wireless LAN card to install. Inside of the disc there is a folder called Linux. I'm assuming that that is how I install the driver.
Inside of that folder there are two more folders. One is which is for the driver. Inside of that is a .tar.bz2 folder and inside of that is two more folders called Module and WPA supp.
I have no idea and I did tried to search. I found a little bit of stuff but I don't think I understand. Could someone please give me the exact instructions to install the driver/files for it?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and the card is a RT2070 Ralink Lan USB 11B/G 54M Wireless card 802.11.
Pastebin of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/UrFY3NSR
Representative portion in case pastebin wipes this entry:
[ 234.984025] hub 1-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 8. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
[ 234.984041] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 8
[ 235.184037] hub 5-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[ 235.744031] usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
[ 235.864020] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Ralink also has a page for support…
http://eng.ralinktech.com.tw/support.php?s=2
This is what the readme file says, but it is to complicated to understand, maybe someone can translate it so it'll be less complicated?
Here are all folders/file names that is in the folder for the wireless USB driver
Best Answer
Solved over on ubuntuforums. Long and painful. Does require compiling the driver if you do it exactly according to the forum directions here.