RaLink USB stick with Linux .tar drivers- Install help!

[Bubba_Smyth]

As requested:
sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for charles:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1b:e0:ef:19
inet addr:128.231.67.98 Bcast:128.231.67.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::206:1bff:fee0:ef19/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:770089 (770.0 KB) TX bytes:93647 (93.6 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:118 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9656 (9.6 KB) TX bytes:9656 (9.6 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:06:1b:e0:ef:19
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:06:1b:e0:ef:19
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER of 128.231.67.98 from 128.231.67.3
DHCPREQUEST of 128.231.67.98 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 128.231.67.98 from 128.231.67.2
bound to 128.231.67.98 -- renewal in 270583 seconds.
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 156.40.70.10
Address: 156.40.70.10#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.204.147
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.204.99
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.204.103
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.204.104

AND-
lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3370 Ralink Technology, Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b3:4482 IBM Corp. Serial Converter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

In a PDF file on the disk it seems this uses the 3370 chipset? "Kernel 2.6x: Rt3370sta.ko"

I've extracted the .tar file to the HDD. It includes config.mk, Makefile, cp_module.sh, cp_util.sh, load.4, load.6, and the sub-directories MODULE, NETIF, UTIL.

Before a disaster attempting to install DropBox ( and a resulting reinstall of LM Fluxbox ), I had followed a tutorial for install that included ./configure, make, make install, that didn't seem to do anything at all. I had indeed downloaded the listed files to process the files.

I was hoping that the extracted files are the ones I needed. There is a Windows file as well, but I'd rather use the Linux drivers if possible. So where have I gone wrong?

[pdc_2]

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get- ... ult-2.html

read this thread;

particularly, see the last post #19

Axel Koelth who is a real wireless guru said

Latest "fun" with the ralink drivers (at least latest I found out), they changed the size of the firmware images for USB-devices (8K now, 4k before and 4K is the size of images in linux-firmware git for all USB firmwares) for all of their vendor drivers.

The confusion of many different "drivers" (at least 3 for USB and 4 for PCI!) and this whole messing around with dozens of different firmware images is the main reason, I wouldn't touch this junk with a "ten foot pole", no matter how linux friendly ralink looks on its homepage.

so I guess you might be best getting another USB modem

[Bubba_Smyth]

Thank you for your reply. I've abandoned this USB device and will try to get my bulkier Belkin to work on this install of Fluxbox ( was working on LM9 ). So far I've gotten ndiswrapper & wicd installed. When I attempt to connect I get a wrong password error.... but that is another post.