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Re: Getting ralink driver working?



On 2011-05-14 21:26 +0200, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:

> Hi. I just installed Testing on a new machine, so it's running 2.6.38-2-amd64 #1.
>
> I cant seem to get my wireless card working at all. The card is:
>
> $ lspci -nn | grep Network
> 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3092 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R PCIe [1814:3092]
>
> The page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi says that the RT3092 card is
> supported by the rt2860sta driver, and the wiki page on that driver
> says to install wireless-tools and firmware-ralink.

It seems the wiki is somewhat outdated, since the rt2860sta module is no
longer built in the wheezy kernel.  Instead, your card is supposed to be
supported by the rt2800pci driver.

> I did this. But
> wireless still doesn't show up, ifconfig and iwconfig don't show that
> any wireless thing exists.

Is the rt2800pci module loaded?  And if so, what does "ifconfig -a"
print?

Sven


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