Ubuntu – How to get a Ralink RT2070 wireless USB stick to work

10.10driversralinkwireless

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?

http://pastebin.com/hTFrhY2w

Here are all folders/file names that is in the folder for the wireless USB driver

http://pastebin.com/1y8uvyqY

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.