Re: Installing and configuring USB Wireless for rt2870?

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On 06/05/2010 02:49 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

Seems that there are fragmented sources of information
on the Internet on how some people were seemingly able
to get the rt2870 USB Wireless to work on Fedora and I
am trying to do the same, but without much success.

Can anyone point me to a definitive site that can explain
how this could be done?

What I have done so far is:

1) yum install rt2870
    Installed: kmod-rt2870-2.1.2.0-6.fc12.19.i686
    Installed: rt2870-2.1.2.0-2.fc12.1.noarch
    Installed: kmod-rt2870-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686-2.1.2.0-6.fc12.19.i686

2) Step (1) above is not enough as one seemingly
    has to also install the rt2870.bin firmware from
    site: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2,
    and the link:
Firmware RT28XX/RT30XX USB series (RT2870/RT2770/RT3572/RT3070)
    + copy rt2870.bin from "RT2870_Firmware_V22.zip" to:
        /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin

3) Configure the wireless network device via:
    System->Administration->Network

I can ping the wireless device on my local system, but I am not able
to connect to the wireless base-station and to the network...

If there is any additional info I can provide to make this work,
please let me know!

Kind regards,
Dan

I wanted to add something else here...

It seems that I was able to create an auto-wireless
setup via NetworkManager, but there seems to be
a problem.  I am required to use WPA/WPA2 Personal
connection, and I have set it up and added the passphrase,
however, when attempting to connect, I am given a
popup asking for only WEP choices - I am never allowed
to choose a WPA/WPA2 Personal passphrase from the
dropdown list.

What to do?

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