Ralink Rt2870 Usb Wifi Driver

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This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on the Ralink RT2800U[D] and RT3000U[D] chipsets on Debian systems.

Mediatek/Ralink RT2870 USB Wireless Driver 5.1.11.0 Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 32/64bit was collected from MediaTek official site for MediaTek Network. In order to ensure the right driver download, Official driver links from MediaTek are listed at first. Ralink 802.11n USB Wireless Driver application is free to download and offers easy-to-install, easy-to-use, secure, and reliable Drivers and Mobile Phones applications. Ralink 802.11n USB Wireless Driver is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware Drivers and Mobile Phones for Windows PC.

Wheezy users, see rt2800usb for device support.

Contents

  1. Ralink RT2070, RT2770, RT2870, RT3070, RT3071, RT3072 devices (rt2870sta)
    1. Installation

rt2870sta is a module for the Ralink RT2800U[D] and RT3000U[D] USB 802.11 draft-n wireless LAN chipsets. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

This experimental vendor driver is included as a staging driver in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.29. It is present in Debian kernel images since 2.6.29 (i386, amd64). The rt3070sta staging driver was merged with rt2870sta at Linux 2.6.32.

Firmware has been removed from the driver in Debian kernel images as of 2.6.30.1 It is available in the firmware-ralink package since version 0.17.2

The staging driver depends on the x86 or x86-64 architecture (Debian i386 and AMD64 ports respectively).

Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2860sta driver. Ralink 802.11g USB devices are supported by the rt73usb and rt2500usb drivers.

Installation

Squeeze

  1. Add a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

  2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-ralink and wireless-tools packages:

  3. If not already performed, connect the device to your system.

  4. The rt2870sta kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices. Verify your device has an available interface:

  5. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Rt2870Wireless

Wheezy

The Ralink staging drivers were disabled at linux-2.62.6.35-1~experimental.3 and removed at Linux 3.0. See rt2800usb for device support.

Troubleshooting

Ralink Rt2870 Usb Wifi Driver

  • You may be required to blacklist the in-tree rt2800usb driver to allow your device to be claimed by rt2870sta.

  • Examine the kernel ring buffer (dmesg(1)) to verify required firmware is being loaded by the driver:

    • Ensure the firmware-ralink package is installed.

  • SMCWUSBS-N3 users: the region code in this device's NVRAM is invalid (Debian bug 594561), which prevents use of channels 12 and 13.

    • Use the following commands to workaround this issue:

  • On the Hercules eCAFÉ (and probably other i.MX51-based netbooks) the driver will not scan (and ifconfig ra0 up gives a SIOCSIFFLAGS error) until /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat is touched.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo rt2870sta in Debian 2.6.32 (2.6.32-41squeeze2) kernel images.

See Also

  • rt2860sta - Ralink PCI 802.11n devices

  • WiFi/rt73 - Ralink RT2501USB (RT73) 802.11g devices

  • rt2500usb - Ralink RT2500USB 802.11g devices

  • How to use a WiFi interface

CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless

  1. Resolves Debian bug 521553. (1)

  2. Resolves Debian bug 533847. (2)

Translations: English - Français - German

This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on the Ralink RT2800U[D] and RT3000U[D] chipsets on Debian systems.

Wheezy users, see rt2800usb for device support.

Contents

  1. Ralink RT2070, RT2770, RT2870, RT3070, RT3071, RT3072 devices (rt2870sta)
    1. Installation

rt2870sta is a module for the Ralink RT2800U[D] and RT3000U[D] USB 802.11 draft-n wireless LAN chipsets. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

This experimental vendor driver is included as a staging driver in the mainline Linux kernel since 2.6.29. It is present in Debian kernel images since 2.6.29 (i386, amd64). The rt3070sta staging driver was merged with rt2870sta at Linux 2.6.32.

Firmware has been removed from the driver in Debian kernel images as of 2.6.30.1 It is available in the firmware-ralink package since version 0.17.2

The staging driver depends on the x86 or x86-64 architecture (Debian i386 and AMD64 ports respectively).

Ralink 802.11n PCI devices are supported by the rt2860sta driver. Ralink 802.11g USB devices are supported by the rt73usb and rt2500usb drivers.

Installation

Squeeze

  1. Add a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

  2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-ralink and wireless-tools packages:

  3. If not already performed, connect the device to your system.

  4. The rt2870sta kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices. Verify your device has an available interface:

  5. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

Wheezy

The Ralink staging drivers were disabled at linux-2.62.6.35-1~experimental.3 and removed at Linux 3.0. See rt2800usb for device support.

Troubleshooting

  • You may be required to blacklist the in-tree rt2800usb driver to allow your device to be claimed by rt2870sta.

  • Examine the kernel ring buffer (dmesg(1)) to verify required firmware is being loaded by the driver:

    • Ensure the firmware-ralink package is installed.

  • SMCWUSBS-N3 users: the region code in this device's NVRAM is invalid (Debian bug 594561), which prevents use of channels 12 and 13.

    • Use the following commands to workaround this issue:

  • On the Hercules eCAFÉ (and probably other i.MX51-based netbooks) the driver will not scan (and ifconfig ra0 up gives a SIOCSIFFLAGS error) until /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat is touched.

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of modinfo rt2870sta in Debian 2.6.32 (2.6.32-41squeeze2) kernel images.

Adapter

See Also

  • rt2860sta - Ralink PCI 802.11n devices

  • WiFi/rt73 - Ralink RT2501USB (RT73) 802.11g devices

  • rt2500usb - Ralink RT2500USB 802.11g devices

  • How to use a WiFi interface

CategoryHardware | CategoryWireless

  1. Resolves Debian bug 521553. (1)

  2. Resolves Debian bug 533847. (2)